Beltway Poetry Quarterly

Prose Poem Issue

Volume 14:4, Fall 2013

Guest Editor: Abigail Beckel
Table of Contents

Introduction by Abigail Beckel

Jane Satterfield

Why I Don’t Write Nature Poems

Grace Cavalieri

Messages from the Other World

Flavian Mark Lupinetti

Bang
Mural

Jessie van Eerden

Brothers

Donald Illich

Red Cabooses

Paulette Beete

In the Garden

Stacia Cyrene Yearwood

Mimic Men
Perennial

Elizabeth Poliner

Looking at Buds

Nancy Naomi Carlson

After I Xeroxed the Sky

Tony Mancus

sleep and go tidal

Reb Livingston

two excerpts from Bombyonder

A.K. Padovich

How To Visit Baba Yaga

Gail Braune Comorat

The Circus
Again I Dreamed

Danielle Evennou

Ante Sandy

Elisavietta Ritchie

Cecilia Was Born in Chicago

Diamond J. Sharp

Inheritance
La Cubana

Caryn Lazzuri

Mission 1
Mission 3

David McAleavey

When My Shirt Dries
Revealed

Barbara Goldberg

Glass
Far-Flung

Eleanor Bevil Tipton

Shard

David Gewanter

Judgment of Paris

Danuta E. Kosk-Kosicka

Queuing for Lenin

Christina Daub

Back to the Woods

Daniel Gutstein

On Sensitivity: A Brief Philosophy of Political Choice

E. Ethelbert Miller

Letter 4
Letter 8

Lalita Noronha

Gypsy Girls

Chloe Yelena Miller

Returning Home
No

Barbara Westwood Diehl

Rosefinch
Spinning

J.K. Daniels

Alice
XY; XX; XZ

Michael Gushue

Leaving the City
Godzilla