WELCOME to Beltway Poetry Quarterly Since January 2000, Beltway Poetry Quarterly has published poetry by authors who live or work in the capital of the United States. Kim Roberts edits three issues a year, and the fourth issue is guest edited by another area writer (who has previously been featured in an issue). Each issue typically features four to eight poems by five authors. We strive to showcase the richness and diversity of Washington area authors in every issue, with poets from different backgrounds, races, ethnicities, ages, and sexual orientations represented. We have included Pulitzer Prize winners and those who have never previously published. We publish academic, spoken word, and experimental authors--and also those poets whose work defies categorization. Three special issues honor the history and legacy of poets who once resided in Washington: the Memorial Issue and the Profiles Issue include essays and interviews celebrating DC's rich literary history. The Forebears issue, continuing this exploration, will be released this summer. Four other special issues are arranged around themes. The Whitman Issue is an anthology of 38 poems that examine the poet's life and the themes of his writing, published in 2005 to honor the 150th anniversary of the first publication of Leaves of Grass. The Whitman Issue was co-sponsored by the Washington Friends of Walt Whitman, and co-edited by Kim Roberts and Saundra Rose Maley. The Wartime Issue, guest edited by Sarah Browning, is an anthology of poetic responses to the ongoing conflict in Iraq. The DC Places Issue features a poetic geography of the city, co-edited by Kim Roberts and Andrea Carter Brown. The Evolving City, co-edited by Roberts and Teri Ellen Cross, includes poetic responses to construction, preservation, gentrification, the identity of neighborhoods--all the myriad ways cities change over time. The Poetry News section is updated monthly. This section lists new book publications and new issue releases by DC area presses, calls for entries open to DC-area writers, poetry readings, and other events of interest occuring during the present month. Phone numbers will be listed if available; please contact the sponsoring groups directly to verify the accuracy of this information. The Resource Bank offers extensive links for poets and their audiences in the greater Washington, DC region. We include listings of regional organizations that give grants to writers, membership organizations that offer writing classes and other services, reading and performance series, small presses and literary journals, conferences and festivals, libraries, literary blogs from the Mid-Atlantic, area museums, and bookstores. A special feature of the Links section is a listing of other web sites devoted to individual area poets, from such historical figures as Langston Hughes and Sterling A. Brown, to such contemporary writers as Jane Shore and Hilary Tham. Another link lists Artist Residency Programs, and I believe ours in the most complete listing of this kind to be found anywhere. With programs across the US and in many other countries, these links can help artists of all disciplines find a place away from home to create new work.   Subscribe! Subscriptions are free. There are two options. JOURNAL ONLY. If you would like to get email notices four times a year with announcements of new issues, please join our subscription list at Mutual Aid. Go to: http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/beltwaypoetryquarterly. DC LOCAL LISTINGS. Want more? If you would like a subscription PLUS information about readings, calls for entry, and other literary events in the greater DC region, please join our DC list at Mutual Aid. Go to: http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman./listinfo/beltway.   Submissions, Masthead, and More CLICK HERE for information about Submissions and Forthcoming Issues CLICK HERE for information about Staff and Volunteers CLICK HERE for Acknowledgements and Press Coverage of Beltway Poetry Quarterly