Beltway Poetry Quarterly

Introduction

Indran Amirthanayagam On War and Peace

Poems

Usha Akella 58 Years; Cultural Appropriation: Usha Akella

Zeina Azzam 18,000 Children Killed in Gaza: Zeina Azzam

Ibtisam Barakat Red Hat; Palestinian Embroidery: Ibtisam Barakat 

Margo Berdeshevsky Autumn Sonata; Ask Better Angels, As The Full Scale Looms: Margo Berdeshevsky

Susana H. Case Saigon Without War; Monumental Destruction, Serial Bliss/Serial Bias: Susana H. Case

George Elliott Clarke For E.J.P.; “Trancelating” the Verses of Agnes Fong (Lucero); Off the Pig!; Guilty Pleasure: Re-Watching Goldfinger (1964); The Call to Home: George Elliott Clarke

Alfred Corn What the Thunder Says; Cascade of Faces; Kite: Alfred Corn

Ruth Danon 2025; A Language is a Dialect with an Army and a Navy: Ruth Danon

Martin Dickinson Líneas escritas al enterarse de la cancelación de la visa de Óscar Arias

Ahmed Dremly I Changed

W.D. Ehrhart Night Stalkers; The Uselessness of Words: W. D. Ehrhart

David Alberto Fernández Paz en sustracción / Peace in subtraction: David Alberto Fernández

Claudia Gary Livestream of Kyiv, March 4, 2022

Jason Gebhardt The Fold: Jason Gebhardt

Ali Imran Let us reason together for peace

W. Luther Jett Memorial Day; When; Where We Sit Forever; Pale: W. Luther Jett

Miho KinnasE. Ethelbert Miller If Only Immigration was a Fish; The Middle Passage; I Turn to Stone and My Pain Goes On; State of Secrets; Democracy’s Rainfall; The Coming of the Bats: Miho Kinnas & E. Ethelbert Miller

Donald Krieger My Neighborhood; We in America: Don Krieger

Kathryn Levy Countdown; My Country: Kathryn Levy

Charlotte Meehan Rules of Engagement: Charlotte Meehan

Chloe Yelena Miller Happy New Year

William O’Daly The Flag is Burning; To the Forty-Third President; Afghanistan: William O’Daly

Maurya Simon No Wars Are Won; Where is the God of Mercy; Oh America: Maurya Simon

Edna Shochat I Had A House in Jerusalem; New Widow: Edna Shochat

Robert Eric Shoemaker A short distance between peril and promise

Vivimarie VanderPoorten No Man’s Land: Vivimarie VanderPoorten

Pramila Venkateswaran Meditation of One Left Behind; Soft Animal of the Body: Pramila Venkateswaran

Terence Winch The Rules of Engagement; Today Was Beautiful; No Surrender; Evacuation; Treaty: Terence Winch

Baron Wormser A Wishful Poem

Radhika Yeddanapudi Who’s Counting?; Stride–a threat modeling program; Useless Inventory; Two Gazan Women: Yeddanapudi Radhika

Essays/Reviews

Zeina Azzam Alive in Gaza

Jonathan HarringtonSafia Jama Crowded House by Safia Jama: Reviewed by Jonathan Harrington

W. Luther Jett Q&A for the End of the World: Kim Roberts, Michael Gushue: reviewed by Luther Jett

Megha Sood Shakespearewalis: Verses On The Bard, reviewed by Megha Sood

Translations

John Wall BargerMarina Pizzi Three poems by Marina Pizzi, translated by John Wall Barger

Paula Arcila Jaramillo Plegaria al dios del patriarcado (Prayer to the god of patriarchy) by Paula Arcila Jaramillo, translated by Indran Amirthanayagam

Anderson Braga Horta VERSÍCULOS (fragmento) – VERSELETS (fragment) by Anderson Braga Horta, translated by David Alberto Fernández

Guillermina Delupi El huésped; Portarretratos; De las cosas inevitables; Los rostros de los que duermen (The Guest; Picture Frame; Of Inevitable Things; The Faces of Sleepers) by Guillermina Delupi, translated by Indran Amirthanayagam

Marcos Freitas cinco estrelas (five stars); es steht geschrieben; suspiro (sigh); paz…ciência…(peace…science); mísseis hipersônicos (hypersonic missles) by Marcos Freitas, translated by Indran Amirthanayagam

Caterina Scicchitano Poem 1, Poem 2: Caterina Scicchitano, translated by Indran Amirthanayagam

Ariel Schettini Tema de la lucha de clases (Class Struggle Theme) by Ariel Schettini, translated by Indran Amirthanayagam