Beltway Poetry Quarterly

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Resources
    • Artist Residency Programs
      • AIR
      • Colony
      • Retreat
      • Literary
      • Media
      • Performing
      • Visual
      • Appalachian South
      • Asia, Africa, Australia, The Middle East
      • British Isles
      • Deep South
      • France
      • Germany
      • Great Lakes
      • Mid-Atlantic
      • New England
      • Pacific
      • Plains
      • Rocky Mountains
      • Scandinavia
      • Southwest
      • The Rest of Europe
      • The Rest of North and South America
    • Community Outreach
    • Conferences & Festivals
    • Grants
    • Journals
    • Libraries
    • Member Organizations
    • Miscellaneous
    • Museums
    • New Books
    • Reading Series
    • Small Presses
  • Poetry News
  • About Us
    • Mission
    • Submission Guidelines
    • Staff, Partners, & Volunteers
    • Awards & Press
  • Poetry Archive
  • Current Issue

American University

Poems and Essays:

A Splendid Wake Issue

Barbara Goldberg Translates Moshe Dor

Cotton Farm Blues

David Keplinger Translates Jan Wagner

Failed Sonnet After the Verdict

Five Poems

Five Poems by Jona Colson

Five Poems in Response to “Romeo and Juliet”

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

Macomb Street Workshops

Myra Sklarew on William Stafford

Ooth Jazz

Sam Allen, aka Paul Vesey

Scars of Last Year’s Leaves

Seven Poems

Shiloh Baptist Church Cemetery, Caddo Parish

The Goldfinch

The Howard Poets in Perspective

The Switch

Three Poems

Three Poems

Two Poems

Two Poems

Two Prose Poems

Two Prose Poems

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

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

see more…

Follow us on:

  • Facebook
  • Twitter