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Sterling A. Brown Tribute

Poems and Essays:

5AM Blues

A Sterling of a Man

An Accounting

At the One Step

Birdland

blues poem

Bonus: From the Archives

Didn’t We…

Difference Between Heaven and Hell

Dig, Find, Make Way

Interval

Interview with Sterling A. Brown

Introduction to the Sterling A. Brown Tribute Issue

Kaleidoscope

Kindness

Saxophone Lesson

Shake, Alabama

sterling brown’s house, washington dc 1990’s

The Ballad of Alice Hortense

The Neighborhood, Changing

Things My Mother Taught Me

Three Lessons Lawrence Wheatley Dropped on Spanish Joe

Two Poems

Two Poems

Two Poems

Two Poems

Two Poems

Two Poems

Two Poems

Work Song

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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Washington is not alien territory for the muse. There’s an awful lot of good stuff going on here–an extraordinary degree of amity among Washington poets. They hang together. You’d be hard-pressed to find that in Manhattan.

— Maxine Kumin

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