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Slam Issue

Poems and Essays:

How To Speak American

Introduction to the Slam Issue

My Mother’s Belly

New York

Not Thirst. Preparation.

Ode to Urban Dictionary

Outerspace

Prom

Some of My Favorite Jokes

Three Poems

Three Poems

Two Poems

Two Poems

Two Poems

Two 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.

Random Quote

It is a city of temporaries, a city of just-arriveds and only-passing-through. They do go home, but it is only for visits–they hurry back to their lodestone and their star, their self-hypnotized, self-mesmerized, self-enamored, self-propelling, wonderful city they cannot live away from or, once it has claimed them, live without. Washington takes them like a lover and they are lost.

— Allen Drury, 1959, Advise and Consent

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