
Digital Table of Contents
Call & Response: Experiments in Joy
Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry
2015
41.1 • 41.2
Gabrielle Civil, Guest Editor
Ebony Noëlle Golden, Associate Guest Editor
giovanni singleton, Meta DuEwa Jones & Keith D. Leonard, Guest Editors

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DIGITAL
Little by Little 3
Sassy Ragdale Lindy
Mankwe Ndosi
The Alien Project
Catron Booker
from “SPIN: Brighter Days Music Factory,” feat. DJ Buddha (Antioch College, “Call & Response,“ Aug 23, 2014)
Duriel E. Harris
Call & Response: Experiments in Joy: An Introduction [PDF excerpt]
Gabrielle Civil
Getting to Joy: Emergence(s) & Experimentation/s
Ebony Noëlle Golden (in conversation w/ Adaku Utah)
Other Selves
Tracey Rose Peyton
Finding Rest (from Straight Yellow Jacket)
Maxie A. Rockymore
Weave of Motives (after Hortense Spillers)
Alexis Pauline Gumbs
t. tara turk
Convening: An Archive
Announcing the Call: July 22, 2014
from Call & Response: Artists Announce the Call: Experiments in Joy
Call & Response: Experiments in Joy Festival: August 22–24
(Web Announcement)
Paint Like a Man!
Wura-Natasha Ogunji
Tiny Winey
Rosamond S. King
_____ Is the Thing with Feathers
Gabrielle Civil
Cooking Kentifrican Cuisine with Chef Isaac DeLamatre
Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle
my brown body, this i know: in response to The Call (part i)
Miré Regulus
La Mujer Maravilla Exploración #4
Awilda Rodríguez Lora
SPIN: Brighter Days Music Factory
Duriel E. Harris
Experiments in Joy [PDF]
Chloë Bass
Kentifrican Cultural Practices: An Experiment in Joy
Kevin McGruder
Utopic Mappings: Performing Joy [PDF excerpt]
Elizabeth Currans
“I don’t write to God no more…I write to you”: A Recipe & Ritual for an Epistolary Connection (with You)
Indigo X
An Open Letter to Bob Marley: Time to Create Reggae Dialogues
Deanne Bell
from me & Nina: A Play in One Act
Monica A. Hand
Growing Pains
Tonya Cherie Hegamin
Recall, Response & Rememory
Lewis Wallace
Sky
Good News
Reginald Eldridge, Jr.
GENERAL ISSUE
DIGITAL
Africa SOS
Cycle
Gangsta Birth
Yolanda Wisher
Autumn with Spiders
Ngwatilo Mawiyoo
Slough
Figure 02. “Orientation” [PDF]
Justin Phillip Reed
For the Tattooed Woman at Lefty’s Tap
Adrian S. Potter
people in glass towers should not imagine us
dear ebonics
dear ebonics (postscript)
t’ai freedom ford
Bare [PDF]
Tiffany Austin
Poem for James Reese Europe
Paul r. Harding
Crystal Stair
Cole Lavalais
Muhammad Ali, in Atlanta, 1996
Brian Gilmore
The Uses of Salt [PDF excerpt]
M. Shelly Conner
Auction
Gabrielle Civil
“A Lion at Pendleton”: Charles Johnson’s Reimagining of a Moment
Toni Pressley-Sanon
Romantic & Romanticized International Journeying: Marita Golden’s Migrations of the Heart [PDF excerpt]
Trudier Harris
FURIOUS FLOWER: SEEDING THE FUTURE OF AFRICAN AMERICAN POETRY
POETRY
giovanni singleton, Guest Editor
Poets in Old Age
At an Abraham Lincoln Celebration
For the young cherry tree in my yard
Toi Derricotte
Lemons
Turner’s Great Tussle with Water
Yusef Komunyakaa
Benbannik uhday yoesay-day / Their Name is Benbannik [PDF]
Douglas Kearney
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz [PDF]
Henriette deLille
Marilyn Nelson
Three Railroad Pieces; Three Towns The Distance
A Train at Night
From Ohio Railroads
C. S. Giscombe
Eleggua & Eshu Ain’t the Same [PDF]
Phillip B. Williams
The Master Bedroom
Disclosure
Mendi + Keith Obadike
Gun Carriage at Old Fort
Paradise & Plantation
The Last City
Mark McMorris
vial two
after the cinema
Raina J. León
Mercy
Rituals of Sacraments Romare Saw in the Mirror
Cutouts Romare Saw in the Streets
Quincy Troupe
ESSAYS
Meta DuEwa Jones, Guest Editor
Keith D. Leonard, Guest Editor
Seeding the Future Is Seeing the Future of African American Poetry
Meta DuEwa Jones & Keith D. Leonard
The Work of Black Literature in the Age of Digital Reproducibility [PDF excerpt]
John Keene
Innocence & Fury: Reading the Pink in Rita Dove’s Mother Love
Althea Tait
“soundtrack for a generational shift”: Music & Innovation in Evie Shockley’s the new black
Laura Vrana
Being There, Doing That: DC’s Dasein
Aldon Lynn Nielsen
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