About the Editor Kim Roberts is the author of two books of poems, The Kimnama (Vrzhu Press, 2007), and The Wishbone Galaxy (WWPH, 1994), and has published in literary journals beginning with every letter of the alphabet. Roberts has been the recipient of grants from the DC Commission on the Arts, the Humanities Council of Washington, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. In addition, she has been awarded residency grants from eleven artist colonies: The Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Hidden River Arts Center, Artists' Enclave at I-Park, New York Mills Artists' Retreat, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico, Ucross Foundation, Millay Colony for the Arts, Blue Mountain Center, Mesa Refuge, and Ragdale Foundation. Her website: http://www.kimroberts.org.   Guest Editors One issue of Beltway every year is guest edited by a writer who has previously been featured in the journal. Our roster of guest editors is eminent! Guest editors have included: Regie Cabico of Soul & Sol, Teri Ellen Cross of the Folger Shakespeare Library, Kwame Alexander of the Capital BookFest, Andrea Carter Brown, co-founder of Barrow Street, Sarah Browning of DC Poets Against the War, Naomi Ayala of Hermana a Hermana/Sister to Sister, Grace Cavalieri of The Bunny & The Crocodile Press, Saundra Rose Maley of the Washington Friends of Walt Whitman, Hilary Tham of The Word Works, Inc., Brian Gilmore of the Progressive Media Project, and Merrill Leffler of Dryad Press.   Interns and Volunteers Our current Editorial Assistant is Pauline Tran. Pauline is a senior English major at the University of Maryland, College Park, where she studies poetry, as well as art, photography, and film. In addition to her work at Beltway Poetry, she is a teacher's assistant for a creative writing workshop. In the future, she hopes to pursue an MFA in Poetry as well as publish and teach at the university level. Thanks to our recent interns and volunteers: Georgia Chaconas, Olga Tsyganova, Helen Park, Jennifer Tamayo, Andy Cole, Lauren Harrison, Michael Degnan, Carol Heller Nation, Ann Kurzius, Emery Pajer, and David Bujard. Looking for VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES? Beltway could use your help! Contact Kim Roberts at beltway.poetry@juno.com for more information. About washingtonart Washingtonart.com is a website created in 1997 by Kathy Keler, a painter who is among the 12 visual artists whose work is presented in depth on the site. Events and exhibit information, discussions, guest artists, and links to art sites both local and international, are additional features of the site. Washingtonart.com has a "sister site," washingtonart.net, which documents more Washington area art, and includes a free alphabetical directory of area visual artists. Most poets' pages on Beltway Poetry Quarterly reproduce an image from one of the visual artists featured on washingtonart.com or washingtonart.net.     More About Beltway CLICK HERE for the journal's mission and history, plus subscription information CLICK HERE for information about Submissions and Forthcoming Issues CLICK HERE for Acknowledgements and Press Coverage of Beltway Poetry Quarterly