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Type Title State
Writing Program American University District of Columbia
Writing Program D.C. Creative Writing Workshop District of Columbia
Small Press Aerial/Edge District of Columbia
Poetry-Friendly Bookstore Bridge Street Books District of Columbia
Literary Organization DC Arts Center District of Columbia
Poetry-Friendly Bookstore Busboys and Poets 14th & V District of Columbia
Literary Organization The Poetry and Literature Center at the Library of Congress District of Columbia
Poetry-Friendly Bookstore Busboys and Poets 5th & K District of Columbia
Literary Organization WritersCorp District of Columbia
Poetry-Friendly Bookstore Georgetown University Bookstore District of Columbia

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Related Poems

Your door is shut against my tightened face,
And I am sharp as steel with discontent;
But I possess the courage and the grace
To bear my anger proudly and unbent.
The pavement slabs burn loose beneath my feet,
And passion rends my vitals as I pass,
A chafing savage, down the decent street;

Claude McKay
1919
It was the summer of Chandra Levy, disappearing
       from Washington D.C., her lover a Congressman, evasive
              and blow-dried from Modesto, the TV wondering

in every room in America to an image of her tight jeans and piles
       of curls frozen in a studio pose. It was the summer the only 
              woman known as a serial killer, a ten-dollar whore trolling

the plains of central Florida, said she knew she would
       kill again, murder filled her dreams
              and if she walked in the world, it would crack

her open with its awful wings.
Connie Voisine
2008

Ah, not this marble, dead and cold:
Far from its base and shaft expanding—the round zones circling, comprehending,
Thou, Washington, art all the world’s, the continents’ entire—not yours alone, America,
Europe’s as well, in every part, castle of lord or laborer’s cot,
Or frozen North, or sultry South—the African’s—the Arab’s in his tent,

Walt Whitman
1891

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