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Featured Poets

Poems and Essays:

Cacayo Ballesteros

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Four Poems

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Indran Amirthanayagam

Karl W. Carter, Jr.

Seven Poems

Six Poems

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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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How shall I act the natural man in this/Invented city, neither Rome nor home?

— Ernest Kroll, “Washington, D.C.”

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