VOLUME SEVEN, NUMBER FOUR Fall 2006 THE PROFILES ISSUE Interviews and Essays Introduction by Kim Roberts In eight essays and interviews, poets and scholars help reveal DC's literary history, from authors whose work should be better known to those who have served in that most public of positions: The US Poet Laureate. This special issue of Beltway Poetry Quarterly is part of an occasional history series, started with The Memorial Issue (Fall 2003), in which we celebrate poets with strong ties to Washington, DC. As models, as mentors, these poets shine a light on the pathway before us. For their guidance and suggestions on this issue, I thank Sarah Browning, Beth Joselow, Merrill Leffler, Barbara Simon, Elisavietta Ritchie, Libbie Rifkin, Kenny Carroll, Richard Peabody, and Brian Gilmore.   Table of Contents Three DC Editors: Profiles of Caresse Crosby, William F. Claire, and Merrill Leffler by Richard Peabody In the Magnificent Region of Courage: An Interview with Louise Glück by Grace Cavalieri Leda in Red Sneakers: A Remembrance of Mona Van Duyn by Andrea Carter Brown Just Like Old Times: An Interview with Ed Cox by E. Ethelbert Miller Smoke in a House on Fire: A Profile of Gloria Oden by Julia A. Galbus Robert Sargent: Remembering a Friend and Poet by Hastings Wyman Cloaked Silences in Reetika Vazirani's Poetry by Jane Alberdeston Coralin Poet, Translator, and International Man of Intrigue: The Rod Smith Interview by Daniel Gutstein