
Digital Table of Contents
General Issue
2017
43.1
Duriel E. Harris, Editor
Sheree Renée Thomas, Associate Editor
Bryan Reid & Danielle Sutton, Editorial Assistants
Andrew LaBombarda, Sound Consultant
Cover Art Front: Patrick Earl Hammie, Bust of an American Man (Early 21st Century)
Cover Art Back: Patrick Earl Hammie, Oedipus
Interior Page: Patrick Earl Hammie, Oedipus (View 3)

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POETRY
Blerim
Andrew e. Colarusso
from Rode On
Betsy Fagin
Untitled Love Song
Falsetto
Reginald Harris
American Negro
Ashaki M. Jackson
Leave Me Alone
Wuornos
The Carrion Bible
Sean Kilpatrick
Hunt and Polo
From the Bird’s Nest
David Lohrey
King Kong on Old Broadway
Hermine Pinson
Homage to DeCarava
Crystal Rudds
Martial Language
Inheritance
Kevin Simmonds
FICTION/HYBRID GENRE
Sound
Ernest Hardy
When Fire Flies
Trasi Johnson
Plastic City
Leslie Ann Murray
excerpt from The Last Salsa Singer
Ivelisse Rodriguez
DRAMA/PERFORMANCE ART
River See & Supplementary Materials
Sharon Bridgforth
Exhibited
Andre Jones
CRITICISM & ESSAYS
Postmodernist Exilic Imagination in Tanure Ojaide’s When It No Longer Matters Where You Live
Henri Oripeloye
Transcription of Text for the Artwork Lay-in Drapeaux for Justin Horton Smith
Zeal Harris
VISUAL ART
Klingon Cloak for a Black Paladin
Zeal Harris
Flowers of Flesh
“Read what my metal says, COURAGE; ain’t it the truth, ain’t it the truth!”
Worthless Limbs
Freedom For Our Descendants
Ayo Jackson
Contributor Bios
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