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DC Places

Poems and Essays:

Abandoning Your Car in a Snowstorm: Rosslyn, Virginia

Against the Wall

Christmas Day in Washington

Early Cinema

Full Moon on K Street

I’m In Love with the Morton Salt Girl

It is a Living Coral

July in Washington

Montana Terrace

Storm Crossing Key Bridge

The Columbiad

The Tecata Dances on Park Road

Visits to St. Elizabeths

Washington Migrants

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.

Random Quote

As the lights of the Pentagon probe this autumn dusk,/a peaceful V-sign of Canada geese lower their landing gear,/slip on the oily Potomac, break rank and huddle//among power boats.

— Rod Jellema, “Washington Migrants”

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