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CAVE CANEM AT TWENTY
Celebrating the Gwendolyn Brooks Centennial
2017
43.2
Nicole Terez Dutton, Dawn Lundy Martin, Patricia Smith & Lauren K. Alleyne, Guest Editors
Cover Art Front: Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Untitled 1
Covert Art Back: Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Untitled 2
Interior Page: Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Untitled 3

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CAVE CANEM AT TWENTY
Nicole Terez Dutton & Dawn Lundy Martin, Guest Editors
Remedios, Flying a Kite
The Lazarus Project
Dexter Booth
Sojourner
Antigone
Marie-Ovide Gina Dorcely
Underneath There Is a Wound
Natalie Graham
Saudade
Gary Jackson
Flight
Brionne Janae
Vernacular Is the One Slave You Know
Rickey Laurentiis
Wet Nurse Milk Song
Teeth
Kwoya Fagin Maples
I Wish You Black Sons
Glenis Redmond
Cotillion
Look Away!
Cherene Sherrard
Dinner Party in Yellow
Christina Springer
53. Lucy Gets it
54. Lucy’s heart will not stop
62. Lucy, the just washed
Ronaldo V. Wilson
CELEBRATING THE GWENDOLYN BROOKS CENTENNIAL
Feral
Shepsu Aakhu
A Lectio Divina for Gwendolyn Brooks: Honoring the Ancestor, Contemplating Healing
Maria Hamilton Abegunde
THE FURIOUS FLOWER POETRY CENTER’S GWENDOLYN BROOKS CENTENNIAL POETRY PRIZE
Patricia Smith & Lauren K. Alleyne, Guest Editors
Restless, Everyday Magic: Introducing the Winners of the Gwendolyn Brooks Centennial Poetry Prize
Patricia Smith
WINNER
Conversation with Phillis Wheatley #14
Ode to “The Only Living Object that Survived”
I Started My Period in Childcare, Eleven-years-old
Self Portrait as Hannah Peace at The Cotton Eyed Joe in Knoxville, TN
Tiana Clark
HONORABLE MENTION
Commentary
Fraction of a King
Wallah
Throwing Shade
Clemonce Heard
The Last of the Loud: Presenting Finalists from the Gwendolyn Brooks Centennial Poetry Prize
Lauren K. Alleyne, Assistant Director, Furious Flower Poetry Center
FINALISTS
And When It Doesn’t Happen
Sasha Banks
Here Comes The Song (The Day The Optimism Died)
David Colosi
Ode To Divino, or I Re-listen To Por experiencias propias for the First Time in Six Years & Finally Stop Hating,
or When “Pobre corazón” Comes on I Think of My Dad
Malcolm Friend
Rest
Virginia Henry
Smoke
Niki Herd
Aubade with Burning City:
Panamá, 20 de Diciembre, 1989
Darrel Alejandro Holnes
Dark Water
Ashley M. Jones
Persephone Before The Underworld
Jerico Lenk
upon reading the autopsy of Sandra Bland
Sequoia Maner
What Yields
Kwoya Fagin Maples
Translation
Irène Mathieu
lufu tener
Nicholas Nichols
Antecedent to a Hex
Breauna L. Roach
Dear America,
Iliana Rocha
The Boy
Tori Sharpe
Seafoam
Meghan Stark
Van Gogh Paints a Hymn
Kelly Rae Williams
Calf’s Head & Ox Tongue
Keith S. Wiln
OUR MISS BROOKS 100: A CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION
Guest Edited by Quraysh Ali Lansana
Excerpt from the Introduction to The Whiskey of Our Discontent: Gwendolyn Brooks as Conscience & Change Agent
edited by Quraysh Ali Lansana & Georgia A. Popoff
POETRY
Young Africans
These Thursdays
Roger Bonair-Agard
An American Critique
Randall Horton
What to Do When Everything Gets Tossed from the Vessel
The Latitude, The Longitude & a Third Axis Called Time
Jacqueline Jones-Lamon
black jesus
Quraysh Ali Lansana
Seven Earthlike Planets
Music is in the Minors
Adrian Matejka
Frying Bacon
Gay Pasley
Crone
All of the Above
Matrimony
Georgia A. Popoff
Titi’s Juju
Bettina M. Walker
ESSAYS
A Diamond in Her Hands: The Poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks & Old Age
Angela Jackson
Against Ageism: Reading “A Sunset of the City” by Gwendolyn Brooks at Mid-Life
Julia Lisella
Under the Veils of the Darkness
Georgia A. Popoff
ART FOLIO
Rootwork Gallery: Black Visual & Curatorial Practice in Collaboration with the Ancestors & Others Unseen
Tracie D. Hall
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