Beltway Poetry Quarterly

Introduction

Holly BassJoel Dias-Porter Introduction to the Cave Canem 20th Anniversary Issue

Contents

Elizabeth Acevedo Three Poems

Saida Agostini coffee with a married woman

Jane Alberdeston Five Poems

Elizabeth Alexander Two Poems

E.J. Antonio Two Poems

Reginald Dwayne Betts Mural for the Heart

Remica Bingham-Risher Delicious, New Edition, 1986

Derrick Weston Brown Two Poems

Carleasa Coates Two Poems

Teri Ellen Cross Davis Two Poems

Kyle G. Dargan It’s Possible I’m Too Bougie to Be Free

Hayes Davis Two Poems

Toi Derricotte The Baby

Cornelius Eady The Switch

T'ai Freedom Ford Three Poems

Brian Gilmore Five Poems

Reginald Harris Two Poems

Niki Herd 26 | Sandy Hook*

Randall Horton Two Poems

Brandon D. Johnson Two Poems

A. Van Jordan Vestiges

Alan King Two Poems

Kateema Lee Two Poems

Toni Asante Lightfoot Notes on Debridement

Gary Copeland Lilley For Peace in the Valley

Kyla Marshell Relax, Relate, Release

Ernesto Mercer More A’s B’s C’s & D’s, or The President Is About To Grab Victim’s Money Like It’s Pussy

Carlo T. Paul Two Poems

Katy Richey Three Poems

Venus Thrash Mercy

Imani Tolliver the fire this time. remembering april, 1992.

Nagueyalti Warren Dream Variation