poetry quarterly

10th anniversary

Volume 11:3, Summer 2010

PLAN B PRESS ISSUE
Guest Editor: stevenallenmay

In 2010, Beltway Poetry Quarterly teamed up with Plan B Press to celebrate our tenth anniversary. In this issue, we celebrate the history of Plan B.


Table of Contents

Introduction by stevenallenmay

I: Founding (1999-2001)

Dianne Miller
Inspiration
The Gifted, The Gift

Deborah Filanowski
Mother-love
Nature's Lesson

Three Poems from Bardfest '99
Erika Stanley, "Oh My Love"
Jessica White, "The Inconsolable"
Vincent Balistrieri, "Nep Tune Slip"

II: Move to Philadelphia (2001-2004)

Lamont Steptoe
from Uncle's South China Sea Blue Nightmare

Jim Mancinelli
Channeling Rumi
Nine Ways of Looking at Something Found

Michele Belluomini
Crazy Mary
Look How Beautiful Her Garden

III: Move to DC (2004-2009)

Mary Ann Larkin
How It Was

Anne Blonstein
freundinnenschaft

Robert Miltner
The Age of Ten As Point of View

Ellen Sullins
Elsewhere

Jason Venner
Doorknobs
Shutter Speed

Dan Maguire
Finding the Words

IV: Current Releases (2010)

Tony Brewer
The dead don't get off easy

Joseph Kerschbaum
Prisoner of War

Michael Fisher
from November 11th

Four poems from Full Moon on K Street: Poems About Washington, DC
Tina Darragh,"cliche as place—rainbows"
Gray Jacobik, "Forgetting David Weinstock"
Tony Medina,"Cannibals on U Street"
Ken Rumble,"8. april. 2001"