The Poet and the Poem
2026-27 Series

Featured Rose Solari

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Rose Solari is the author of three full-length collections of poetry, The Last Girl, Orpheus in the Park, and Difficult Weather; the one-act play, Looking for Guenevere, in which she also performed; and a novel, A Secret Woman. In her work for the stage, she has collaborated and performed her poetry with several dance companies and, most recently, The Folger Consort, a renowned early music ensemble. She has lectured and taught writing workshops at many institutions, including Arizona State University’s Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing; the University of Maryland, College Park; St. John’s College, Annapolis, Maryland; The Centre for Creative Writing at Oxford University in Oxford, England, and The Writer’s Center. In 2010, she co-founded Alan Squire Publishing, a small press with big ideas.

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