ABOUT Beltway Poetry Quarterly Submissions Beltway Poetry Quarterly does NOT accept unsolicited submissions. The only exception to that rule is our open reading period for special themed issues. The next themed issue will be Volume 12:1, to be published in January 2011. The theme has not been announced. Look for more information here in summer 2010. Poetry News Authors are invited to provide information about their readings, publications, and other activities for listing in the Poetry News section. Information should be submitted any time in the month prior to an event or publication to beltway.poetry@juno.com. Please note that listings of Readings and Performances only include events in the greater Washington DC area, although we cover a larger geographic region for listings of Competitions, Grants, Calls for Entries, Workshops, and Special Events (covering all of DC, MD, VA, WV, and DE).   Forthcoming Issues Vol. 11:2, April 2010 Literary Groups and Institutions The fourth in a series on DC's literary history, this issue will focus on writing groups, reading series, presses, and bookstores that have nurtured DC writers past and present. Essays and interviews. Contributors will include Regie Cabico on DC Slam, Brian Gilmore on Drum & Spear Books, Grace Cavalieri on "The Poet & The Poem" radio program, Martin G. Murray on the Washington Friends of Walt Whitman, Abdul Ali on the Hurston/Wright Foundation, Julie Enszer on The Furies, Sunil Freeman on The Writers Center, Kim Roberts on the Bethel Literary Society, Toni Blackman on Freestyle Union, Danielle Evennou on MotherTongue, and more. Vol. 11:3, July 2010 Plan B Press Issue, guest edited by stevenallenmay. Vol. 11:4, October 2010 DC Places Issue Number 2 The second in a series of poems about Washington, DC. Open by invitation only. Volume 12:1, January 2011 Theme issue, with open call for entries. Theme still to be determined. Watch here for announcements about our open submissions period!   More About Beltway CLICK HERE for the journal's mission and history, plus subscription information CLICK HERE for information about Staff and Volunteers CLICK HERE for Acknowledgements and Press Coverage of Beltway Poetry Quarterly