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DC Literary History

Poems and Essays:

be loving ourselves/be sisters: Lucille Clifton Reminds Us that We are American Poetry

A Black Girl Sings: Gwendolyn Bennett in the Harlem Renaissance

A Brother, A Neighbor, A Washingtonian: Gil Scott-Heron

Ahmos Zu-Bolton’s Poetry of Invention

Brian Gilmore on “May Miller, The Silence”

Dan Vera on Sterling A. Brown

Kim Roberts on Georgia Douglas Johnson

Literary Organizations Issue

Merrill Leffler on Ernest Kroll (1913-1995)

Peter Montgomery on Eugene McCarthy (March 29, 1916, Minnesota – December 10, 2005, Washington, DC)

Poetic Ancestors

Regie Cabico on Essex Hemphill

The Bard of Main 903: M.L. Rosenthal Revisited

The Howard Poets

logoBeltway Poetry Quarterly is an award-winning online literary journal and resource bank that originated in Washington, DC and the surrounding Mid-Atlantic region. We are now a global beltway, encircling the epicenters of major metropolises everywhere.

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It is sometimes called the City of Magnificent Distances, but it might with greater propriety be termed the City of Magnificent Intentions; for it is only on taking a bird’s-eye view of it from the top of the Capitol, that one can at all comprehend the vast designs of its projector, an aspiring Frenchman. Spacious avenues, that begin in nothing, and lead nowhere; streets, mile-long, that only want houses and roads and inhabitants; public buildings that need but a public to be complete; and ornaments of great thoroughfares—which only lack great thoroughfares to ornament—are its leading features.

— Charles Dickens, 1842, American Notes

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