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Harlem Renaissance Era

Poems and Essays:

A Black Girl Sings: Gwendolyn Bennett in the Harlem Renaissance

Five Poems

Five Poems

Five Poems

Fourteen Poems by Jessie Redmon Fauset

Mother Night

Nine Poems by Gwendolyn Bennett

Seven Poems

Sonnet

Tercentenary of the Landing of Slaves at Jamestown

To Dr. Mary Church Terrell, Crusader

To John Brown

To Keep the Memory of Charlotte Forten Grimké

To the Dunbar High School

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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Moving from left to right, the light/is heavy on the Dome, and coarse./One small lunette turns it aside/and blankly stares off to the side/like a big white old wall-eyed horse.

— Elizabeth Bishop, “View of the Capitol from the Library of Congress”

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