
Digital Table of Contents
General Issue
2018
44.1
Duriel E. Harris, Editor
Sheree Renée Thomas, Associate Editor
Danielle Sutton, Senior Editorial Assistant
Andrew LaBombarda, Sound Consultant
Brigid Ackerman, Sierra Hobson & Allison Maretti, Editorial Interns
Cover Art Front: Delita S. Martin, Night Reflections
Cover Art Back: Delita S. Martin, Shifter
Interior Page: Delita S. Martin, Constellation

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DIGITAL
“Delita S. Martin: Honoring African American Women” (Video)
“Delita S. Martin: The Role of Family + Storytelling” (Video)
POETRY
numbers
acts
O-Jeremiah Agbaakin
now i play black mama crying over dead son
give us this day / death is our daily bread
a saturday night
we will bring them to heel
bridgette bianca
Weed
Nicole Burney
Paraiso
Bembe
Jeni De La O
Days Left Half Opened
Indy of My Dreams
To Lovers
Renoir Gaither
Next Spring Early
Never Them
Gary Galsworth
Daughter
Son
Anywhere
Another smoke-filled room
Where midnight stretches
Regina Harris Baiocchi
identity marker for the animal light (mixed seed)
destroyed by the screen
Roberto Harrison
The Monk’s Spirit Horse
Rosalind Kaliden
Venus of Sandusky / Our Lady of the Snows
Cindy King
Black Horus BlitzsS$Åò
Wok Pak Archillect
Rose Knapp
Rejecting the Paper & Me
C. T. Layo
The Rainbow Cannot Find the Exit Door
Places Where We Do Not Have to Whisper Our Names
Black Men Can Cry in Wakanda
W. J. Lofton
Flight
Little Kid in a Big Body
Jamal Michel
She Says―
Villain / Knell
We Will Have Questions
Periscopes
Tolu Oloruntoba
Ai-tal Haikuu / I-tal Haiku
Jeremy Jacob Peretz
Quota
When the World Was Flat
Consulting the Cosmos: Breaking Up with 5 O’Clock Telemundo
Assessment of the Urban Dollar
Dimitri A. Reyes
Ebonics—2000
Victorio Reyes Asili
Legend
John Warner Smith
Nowhere Native II
Beautiful We’re Alive / Sunday
Kandace Siobhan Walker
Cosmology
Intervals
Scale
Scales
The Black Keys
Anthony Walton
Diatomaceous
Lisbeth White
Revival
J. Stephen Whitney
The Bad Ones Stayed
.chisaraokwu.
FICTION/HYBRID
Bijou’s Potion
Rowana Abbensetts
The Nounou of Star 14
Priscilla Adipa
The Time Is Nigh
Camille F. Forbes
Worth
Racquel Goodison
Greene Cake
Janice Tuck Lively
Kerekou
Iheoma Nwachukwu
The Burden of Beauty
Lola Opatayo
CRITICAL ESSAY
The Undisputed Color of the Imagination
Aisha Sabatini Sloan
FOLIO BY TRACIE D. HALL
Monuments: Karega Kofi Moyo’s Photographing Uprising & Rebellion in Post–MLK Chicago
Tracie D. Hall
We Belong Here: An Interview with Karega Kofi Moyo
Lee Ann Norman
Image 12
Image 21
Image 24
Mental 9
Mental 10
Mental 11
Karega Kofi Moyo
VISUAL ART
bodies of each other
cloud consciousness
infinite home
other signs
the manitous
self portrait
Roberto Harrison
CONTRIBUTORS
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