Poetry Reading with
Henry Crawford, Michael Gushue & Kim Roberts
Tuesday, September 16, 2025, 7:00 pm
On September 16 three local poets offer a sprightly look at the role of computers and movies in modern life. Henry Crawford’s new book, Screens, investigates the ways that screens project, filter, and distort our perceptions of ourselves. Kim Roberts and Michael Gushue’s book, Q & A For the End of the World, takes us into a darkened theater with the authors to watch the earliest Godzilla and sci-fi movies and ask ourselves what they meant then and might mean now. Doors open at 6:30. Reading begins at 7 and is followed by a reception and book signing.
Michael Gushue has been published in journals such as the Indiana Review, Gargoyle, and American Letters and Commentary. His most recent book is Q&A For The End Of The World(in collaboration with Kim Roberts). His other books are: Sympathy for the Monster, Gather Down Women: Poems and Translations, Pachinko Mouth, and Conrad; and, in collaboration with CL Bledsoe: The Judy Poems, I Never Promised You A Sea Monkey, and Palace of Depression. He ran the reading series Poetry at the Watergate. He and CL Bledsoe run a column of very bad advice on Medium.com called How To Even. He lives in the Brookland neighborhood of Washington DC.
Henry Crawford is the author of three collections of poetry: American Software, published in May of 2017 by CW Books, his second collection, Binary Planet, was published by The Word Works in March of 2020 and released as a 2nd Edition in 2022. Screens, (Broadstone Books, 2025), is Crawford’s most recent full collection of poems. His poem, “The Fruits of Famine,” won first prize in the 2019 World Food Poetry Competition. His work has been published in Boulevard, Copper Nickel, Rattle, the Southern Humanities Review, and many others. He is a two time finalist for the Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest. He was nominated for the 2022 Rhysling Award by the Science Fiction Poetry Association. He is a longtime co-host of the Café Muse Literary Salon Online and producer of Poets vs The Pandemic.
Kim Roberts is the author of seven books of poems, most recently Corona/Crown, a collaboration with photographer Robert Revere (WordTech Editions, 2023), and the forthcoming Q&A for the End of the World, a collaboration with poet Michael Gushue (WordTech, 2025). Roberts edited By Broad Potomac’s Shore: Great Poems from the Early Days of our Nation’s Capital (University of Virginia Press, 2020), selected by the East Coast Centers for the Book to represent Washington, DC in the Route 1 Reads program. She is the author of the popular guidebook, A Literary Guide to Washington, DC: Walking in the Footsteps of American Writers from Francis Scott Key to Zora Neale Hurston (University of Virginia Press, 2018). Roberts co-curates DC Pride Poem-a-Day each June with filmmaker Jon Gann.
