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Cave Canem

Volume 18:2, Cave Canem 20th Anniversary Issue, guest edited by Holly Bass and Joel Dias-Porter

Poems and Essays:

26 | Sandy Hook*

coffee with a married woman

Delicious, New Edition, 1986

Dream Variation

Five Poems

Five Poems

For Peace in the Valley

Introduction to the Cave Canem 20th Anniversary Issue

It’s Possible I’m Too Bougie to Be Free

Mercy

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

Mural for the Heart

Notes on Debridement

Relax, Relate, Release

The Baby

the fire this time. remembering april, 1992.

The Switch

Three Poems

Three Poems

Three Poems

Two Poems

Two Poems

Two Poems

Two Poems

Two Poems

Two Poems

Two Poems

Two Poems

Two Poems

Two Poems

Two Poems

Two Poems

Vestiges

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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Under a sapphire ceiling/the three of us walk west/on Constitution Ave./At 19th St. we become/black threads weaving/through a quilt of white tourists…

— Joel Dias-Porter, “Hush Now, Don’t Explain”

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