Beltway Poetry Celebrates DC

Offering full online content, Beltway Poetry’s Literary Organizations Issue (11.2) is the fourth in a series of special issues documenting the rich literary history of Washington, DC. This issue celebrates groups and organizations (spanning from 1881 to the present) that have nurtured writers in the region, providing important places to gather, workshop, publish, learn, and read. The issue features:

Sarah Browning on DC Poets Against the War
Regie Cabico on DC Slam
Grace Cavalieri on “The Poet & The Poem”
Zachary Elkin on DC Scores
Julie R. Enszer on The Furies
Danielle Evennou on mothertongue
Sunil Freeman on The Writer’s Center
Brian Gilmore on Drum & Spear Bookstore
Gray Jacobik on The Capital Hill Poetry Group
Alan King on Karibu Books
Martin G. Murray on the Washington Friends of Walt Whitman
Kim Roberts on Bethel Literary and Historical Society
Kim Roberts on DC Poetry Anthologies
The Washington Post on Some of Us Press