Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Celebrating Beltway Poetry Quarterly's 10th Anniversary - Full Moon on K Street
PREORDER YOUR COPY AT 25% OFF! ONLY UNTIL JANUARY 10th!
Featuring over one hundred contemporary poems, the book captures DC's unique sense of place, from monuments to parks, from lawyers to bus stations, from go-go music to chili half-smokes. All poems were written between 1950 and the present, by past and current residents of the city. Edited by Kim Roberts, the publisher of the acclaimed online journal Beltway Poetry Quarterly, this anthology captures the city's many moods: celebratory, angry, and fiercely political.
Contributors include: two-time US Poet Laureate Reed Whittemore; DC's first Poet Laureate, Sterling A. Brown; senator and five-time presidential candidate Eugene J. McCarthy; Cervantes prize winner for lifetime achievement in Spanish-language literature, Jose Emilio Pacheco; renowned gay rights activist Essex Hemphill; and President Obama's official inauguration poet, Elizabeth Alexander.
A number of readings will take place throughout 2010, in the greater Washington DC area (and one in Chicago). See events page for details.
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