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Poems and Essays:

8Rock Collective

A Present

An Interview with James A. Emanuel

DC Poetry Anthologies

DC Slam History

Deborah Sobeloff Translates Egla Morales Blouin

Five Poems

Five Poems

Five Poems

Five Poems in Response to “Julius Caesar”

Four Poems from Stronger Than Cleopatra

Four Poems from The Invented Child

From Friends to Griots: The Modern Urban Griots

Gallery at the Tate

Guilford Courthouse

How the Past Appeared

I Woke from the Dream

Introduction and Table of Contents: Langston Hughes Tribute Issue

Lately

Rod Jellema Translates Tjitte Piebenga

The Field at Potts Camp

Three Poems

Three Poems

Three Poems

Three Poems

Three poems from Ice Fishing

Two Poems

Two Prose Poems

Walt Whitman Visits the Civil War Hospital in the Patent Office (Now the National Portrait Gallery)

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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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Moving from left to right, the light/is heavy on the Dome, and coarse./One small lunette turns it aside/and blankly stares off to the side/like a big white old wall-eyed horse.

— Elizabeth Bishop, “View of the Capitol from the Library of Congress”

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