Announcing a CALL FOR ENTRIES for an special themed issue, “The Evolving City,” co-edited by Kim Roberts and Teri Ellen Cross. Poems should reflect our current time of rapid urban change in DC and across the US. Subjects may include (but are not limited to): construction, architectural rehabilitation, preservation, changing demographics, gentrification, the identity of neighborhoods and streets, the inner city, the outer edges, architecture, and design.

Only poets who live or work in DC, VA, MD, WV, or DE are eligible. Poems may be any length. Submit up to 4 poems by email only. Please submit all poems in a SINGLE email. Poems that have already appeared in print publications are acceptable if copyright has reverted to the author (and author secures any permissions for reprinting). Poems appearing elsewhere on the web are not eligible. The editors are indebted to Abdul Ali for the suggestion of this theme.

Submit poems in the body of an email (no attachments) to beltwaypoetryquarterly@gmail.com. Please include your full contact information (snail mail address, phone, email) and a one-paragraph bio. Incomplete entries and those submitted outside the one-month reading period will not be considered. The issue will be published in October 2007. All entries must be received between March 1 and April 1, 2007.

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