Beltway Quarterly Sonnet Issue

Beltway Poetry Quarterly is an online literary journal and resource bank that showcases the literary community in Washington, DC and the surrounding Mid-Atlantic region. The Winter 2015 issue is The Sonnet Issue, guest co-edited by Michael Gushue (pictured).

The issue features sonnets by 67 authors, contemporary and historic, from DC, VA, WV, MD, and DE. The editors have selected from traditional Shakespearean and Petrarchan sonnets, variations on those forms (including envelope sonnets, hybrid sonnets, and nonce sonnets), and 14-line free verse poems that borrow from sonnet tradition.

In his introduction, Gushue tells that he has arranged the issue “into eight sections along loosely thematic lines, all representing aspects of the sonnet’s reach”: The Beloved, The Body, The Heart, The Body Politic, Pop Culture, Conservations With Myself, À La Recherche Du Temps Perdu, Outdoors, Art And Its Boundaries.