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Beltway Poetry's Tenth Anniversary Events for September

Tuesday, September 21, 2010 at 5:30 pm
Book Release for Lip Smack: A History of Spoken Word Poetry in DC by Kim Roberts (Beltway Editions) featuring a guest performance by Regie Cabico, and tabletop exhibits on The Word Works, Inc., Split This Rock, and Beltway Poetry. Part of The Humanities Council of Washington, DC 30th Anniversary Celebration and Grantee Showcase. Exhibits, readings, performances, and film, with an awards ceremony, and a champagne and cake reception.
Historical Society of Washington, Old Carnegie Library, Mount Vernon Square, DC. (202) 387-8391. Free, but reservations required.

Friday, September 24, 2010 at 5:30 pm
Book Release Reading for Lip Smack: A History of Spoken Word Poetry in DC (Beltway Editions) featuring Kim Roberts, with performances by Chris August, Twain Dooley, Gowri K, and Patrick Washington. 15th Annual Baltimore Book Festival, Festival Stage, Mount Vernon Place, 600 block of North Charles Street, Baltimore, MD. Free.

Friday, September 24, 2010 at 6:30 pm
"Baltimore Celebrates Beltway Poetry": a Beltway Poetry Quarterly Tenth Anniversary Reading . Featured readers TBA. 15th Annual Baltimore Book Festival, Festival Stage, Mount Vernon Place, 600 block of North Charles Street, Baltimore, MD. Free.

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Beltway Poetry Quarterly Spotlights Poets Laureate with Guest Editor Dan Vera

An exciting new issue of the journal Beltway Poetry Quarterly features essays, interviews and poems by and about US Poets Laureate, guest edited by Dan Vera.

Contributors include Peter Montgomery, Christy J. Zink, Michael Gushue, Jean Nordhaus, Grace Cavalieri, Alan King, and Danielle Evennou.

Contributors celebrate the history of Poets Laureate at the Library of Congress, with close looks at the institution itself and the poets Kay Ryan, Charles Simic, Joseph Brodsky, Mark Strand, Anthony Hecht, Maxine Kumin, William Stafford, James Dickey, Randall Jarrell, William Carlos Williams, and Joseph Auslander.

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Beltway Quarterly Opens 2009 with Museum Issue

Beltway Poetry opens 2009 with a new issue devoted entirely to poems about museums.  Thirty-three poets write about museums, historical sites, and other public places devoted to preservation and exhibition.  The poems address the institutions and "their collections, their workers, and the many ways in which they fulfill their founders’ hopes of enlarging the scope of civic life", as guest co-editor Maureen Thorson writes in her introduction.  "In these poems, poets engage in conversations with artists, their subjects, and with art itself. They stand in witness to the forces of history."

 

Saundra Rose Maley asks King Tut,"...is there a crossing over/ Or is this life just what it is, a sandal strap/At best?"  Margaret Yocom speaks in the voice of a man who amassed old logging equipment for a museum in Maine.  Kendra Kopelke lets the woman in a Hopper painting speak: " He put me here/like a candle/to ignite the room."  Stephen Cushman imagines painter's models, "posing in a yoga twist,/head going one way, torso another."  David Gewanter writes of a museum store clerk, " I love to see my mother behind//the counter, tidying up the fossil fish/and reptile rulers."  Linda Pastan contemplates death from a safe distance, asking, " Whose skulls are these,/and isn't it dread/that informs our pleasure//in this canvas?"

 

Poets included:  M.C. Allan * Francisco Aragón * Anne Becker * Mel Belin * Rose Berger * Jody Bolz * Dan Brady * Sarah Browning * Stephen Cushman * Kyle Dargan * Amani Elkassabany * Martin Galvin * Parris Garnier * David Gewanter * Andrew Haley * Reginald Harris * Alan King * Rosemary Klein * Kendra Kopelke * Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda * Mary Ann Larkin * Barbara Lefcowitz * Saundra Rose Maley * Lalita Noronha * Linda Pastan * Ann Rayburn * M.A. Schaffner * Edna Small * Cheryl Snell * Marcela Sulak * Melissa Tuckey * Margaret Yocom * Katherine E. Young

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Summer 2008 Issue of Beltway Poetry Quarterly

Beltway Poetry Quarterly announces it's summer volume. The Forebears Issue includes essays that celebrate individuals and locations important to their writing:

• a photo essay on DC AUTHOR'S HOUSES by Kim Roberts and Dan Vera


• Taquiena Boston and Vera J. Katz on OWEN DODSON


• M.A. Schaffner on AMBROSE BIERCE


• Grace Cavalieri on ANN DARR


• Olivia Barbee on GWENDOLYN BENNETT


• Kathi Morrison-Taylor on JOAQUIN MILLER


• Myra Sklarew on LEON-GONTRAN DAMAS


• Merrill Leffler on GABRIELLE EDGCOMB


• Elisavietta Ritchie on JOHN PAUKER


• Mark Opsasnick on JIM MORRISON and BEAT COFFEEHOUSES

This is the third issue in a series documenting the rich literary history of Washington, DC. Beltway Poetry Quarterly is also pleased to welcome a new summer intern, Alyssa Schimmel. Alyssa is serving as an editorial assistant, and has already updated one of the most popular sections of the Beltway Resource Bank, The Poet Links, which provides links to other web sites featuring individual area poets, past and current.

Finally, Beltway Poetry Quarterly annouces Maureen Thorson as co-editor of a new themed issue on the subject of museums. Poems on the theme are welcome from any poets currently living in DC, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia or Delaware. Entries will be read throughout the month of August. Full guidelines can be found on the journal's website.

Gaea Honeycutt
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Weirding Word®, a division of G.L. Honeycutt Consulting, LLC, is a virtual publication department that provides editing, freelance writing, and publication and web design services.

Copyright 2008 Gaea L. Honeycutt. All rights reserved.

June Beltway Poetry Quarterly and Metro Area Events

The June Poetry News is now online at Beltway Poetry Quarterly, with listings of calls for entries, new publications, and special events.

Upcoming events include:

"GLBT Poets of Washington," a guided walking tour of the Dupont Circle neighborhood, June 21, 10:30 am to noon. Led by Dan Vera, the tour costs $5 and advance reservations are required. Celebrate Gay Pride Month and learn how gay literary culture has flourished from the 1970s to the present in the Dupont Circle neighborhood, with the influence of such writers as Essex Hemphill, Ed Cox, Tim Dlugos, Michael Lally, Lee Lally, Richard McCann, Andrew Holleran, and many others. Stops include Dupont Park, Lambda Rising Bookstore, the site of the Community Bookshop, and writer's homes. This is an expanded version of the tour first developed for the Split This Rock Poetry Festival in March 2008. The tour takes approximately 1.5 hours and will run rain or shine. Limited to 25 participants. Please wear comfortable walking shoes and carry water. The tour starts outside the Starbucks Coffee where Connecticut Avenue and New Hampshire Avenue intersect with the northern part of Dupont Circle. RSVP to Kim Roberts at beltway@mac.com.

Gaea Honeycutt
blog@weirdingword.com

Weirding Word®, a division of G.L. Honeycutt Consulting, LLC, is a virtual publication department that provides editing, freelance writing, and publication and web design services.

Copyright 2008 Gaea L. Honeycutt. All rights reserved.