Why Collaborate?

Michael Gushue and Kim Roberts, co-authors of the poetry collection Q&A for the End of the World (WordTech Editions, 2025), will read from their new book and discuss their process of working together. Both have collaborated with other artists previously, and they will compare this project to others, explain what they learned, and make recommendations for how to set up your own successful collaborations. 

Michael Gushue has been published in journals such as the Indiana Review, Third Coast, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Gargoyle, and American Letters and Commentary. His books of poetry are: Sympathy for the Monster (Alien Buddha Press, 2023), Gather Down Women: Poems and Translations (Souvenir Spoon Books, 2023), Pachinko Mouth (Plan B Press, 2013), Conrad (Souvenir Spoon, 2010), and—in collaboration with CL Bledsoe—The Judy Poems (Ghoti Press, 2021), and I Never Promised You A Sea Monkey (Pretzelcoatl Books, 2017).

Kim Roberts is the author of two guidebooks, 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), and Buried Stories: Walking Tours of Washington, DC Cemeteries (Rivanna Books, 2025), and she edited the anthology, By Broad Potomac’s Shore: Great Poems from the Early Days of our Nation’s Capital (University of Virginia Press, 2020, selected by the DC Public Library and East Coast Centers for the Book for the 2021 Route 1 Reads program). She is the author of seven books of poems.


This event is free but registration is required. Please register here for the Zoom link.