Credits All poems appear in Beltway Poetry Quarterly by permission of the authors, their heirs, or publishers. Many poems in Beltway have been previously published; in all cases except those noted below, copyright has reverted to the authors. We thank the following publications for permissions to reprint: Elizabeth Alexander "Early Cinema" copyright 2001 by Elizabeth Alexander. Reprinted from Antebelllum Dream Book with permission of Graywolf Press, Saint Paul, Minnesota. Elizabeth Bishop "Visits to Saint Elizabeths" from The Complete Poems 1927-1979 by Elizabeth Bishop. Copyright 1979, 1983 by Alice Helen Methfessel. Used by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC. All rights reserved. Anne Becker "Not a Ghazal: Snapshots from the Museum of Life" first appeared in Gargoyle, Issue 48, 2004. Richard Blanco Poems from City of a Hundred Fires reprinted by permission of the University of Pittsburgh Press. Sterling A. Brown "Glory, Glory," from the Collected Poems of Sterling A. Brown. Evanston: TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press, 1989, pp. 233-234. Leon-Gontran Damas "Hiccups" and "Sell Out," translated from the French by Ellen Conroy Kennedy, are reprinted by her permission. From The Negritude Poets, Ellen Conroy Kennedy, ed., Thunder's Mouth Press, New York, 1989. Copyright 1975 by Ellen Conroy Kennedy, from the original cloth edition by The Viking Press. Kyle Dargan "Of the Sun" and "One's for the Money" are reprinted from The Listening (University of Georgia Press, 2004), with permission of the author. Anthony Hecht Poems reprinted with permission from Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Mary Ann Larkin "Farmer Plowing" reprinted from gods & flesh, Plan B Books, 2007. Robert Lowell "July in Washington" from Collected Poems by Robert Lowell. Copyright 2003 by Harriet Lowell and Sheridan Lowell. Used by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC. All rights reserved. Archibald MacLeish "You Andrew Marvell" reprinted with permission from Houghton Mifflin. Judith McCombs "In Praise of the Natural Flowing" first appeared in Poetry, CXXVII, No. 4 (January 1976): 207. It was subsequently published in Against Nature: Wilderness Poems (Paradise, CA: Dustbooks 1979, 1981). Kathleen O'Toole "Demolition in a Time of Penitence" reprinted from Practice, with permission from Finishing Line Press. Linda Pastan "Three Skulls on an Oriental Rug: Cezanne, Oil on Canvas," first appeared in Five Points, Volume 12, Number 1. "To A Young Astronomer, After Reading Whitman" first appeared (in a slightly different form) in Hayden's Ferry Review. "Muse" and "Near the Sacrificial Site" are reprinted from The Last Uncle (W.W. Norton). Poems reprinted from Carnival Evening reprinted by permission of the author and W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. Jane Shore Poems from Music Minus One and Happy Family reprinted by permission of Picador Press. Elizabeth Spires "Grass" reprinted from Now the Green Blade Rises, copyright 2002 by Elizabeth Spires, with permission of the publisher, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. Gary Stein "Subway" was first published in Poetry. "Dysentery" and "What He Gave Up" were published in JAMA, in the 6/11/03 and 11/7/01 issues, respectively. Susan Tichy "Versari" reprinted from Bone Pagoda, copyright 2007 by Susan Tichy, with permission of Ahsahta Press, Boise, Idaho. Joshua Weiner "Postcard to Thom," "Trampoline," "Weegee: Coney Island Beach after Midnight" and "National Pastime" from From the Book of Giants, copyright 2006. "Art Pepper" and "Epitaph" from The World's Room, copyright 2001. Reprinted with permission of the author and the University of Chicago Press. William Carlos Williams "It Is A Living Coral" by William Carlos Williams, from Collected Poems: 1909-1939, Volume I, Copyright 1938 by New Directions Publishing Corp. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp. Terence Winch "Cathedral" first appeared in The New Republic. Kathi Wolfe J. Edgar Hoover first appeared in Breath & Shadow, June 2007. Reprinted by permission of the publisher. Katherine Young "Centralized Heating" first appeared in Chattahoochee Review, Vol. XV, No. 3, Spring 1995.