
Digital Table of Contents
General Issue
2019
45.1
Duriel E. Harris, Editor
Sheree Renée Thomas, Associate Editor
Amanda Fain, Technical Editor
Danielle Sutton, Senior Editorial Assistant
Andrew LaBombarda, Sound Consultant
Brigid Ackerman, Jordan Kanellis & Carlos Salazar, Editorial Interns
Cover Art Front and Back: Andrea Rushing, King Pistol & Piff
Interior Page: Andrea Rushing, Woman in Temple

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DIGITAL
Mirrors
Silka
Indigo, Digital Folio
Woman
Indigo
Blues Woman Aesthetics
Additional Images
Karma Mayet Johnson
POETRY
Bonnaroo, 2012
Reminisce
Miscegenation
Sleepover
Schyler Butler
Cassini Drowning
Akhim Yuseff Cabey
Yung Antgnzm
On Exteriority (Of Full Set: A Litany in 10 Parts)
A Gray Fitted
PSA #18
jayy dodd
Shahada
The Account
Janaiza
Saddiq Dzukogi
Edge
Contour
Aurora
Liberty
Deluxe
Betsy Fagin
B.A.G. Lady (Black Ark Goddess)
Diasporic End/Beginning
Sherese Francis
What is a ritual with no return?
the future is unsettled
six of swords
Destiny Hemphill
His Lake
George Klawitter
an autopsy on composition
The Emblem
cathleen margaret
Gluckliche Reise
The Rights of Ruin
B. B. Martin
Negro Chimney Sweep
A Six-Sided Cedar Coat
The Body Is a Metropolis
David Mills
Rufous
Until the Street Lights Cut On
Michael J. Newkirk
River Child
The Hunter & His Dog.
Blackwater
Sufferhead
Omotunde Oredipe
her husband was not lynched
Running Lines
Mother-of-Pearl
mainstream
matisse’s femme a l’amphore: a libation for mary turner
Angela Redmond-Theodore
earth to earth
Louella Sullivan
Anotha Brotha
Apple Pie
Jorrell Watkins
Small Gifts
Angelique Zobitz
FURIOUS FLOWER POETRY PRIZE, 2018
Marilyn Nelson, Judge
On Winner Heather Treseler
Marilyn Nelson
Beaux Arts
Heather Treseler, Winner
On the Honorable Mention, Keith Wilson
Marilyn Nelson
53rd Street
Keith Wilson, Honorable Mention
FURIOUS FLOWER POETRY PRIZE, 2019
A. Van Jordan, Judge
On Winner Rachelle Parker
A. Van Jordan
As I Recollect
I Was A Monsoon, Just Once
Save Him
Rachelle Parker, Winner
On the Honorable Mention, Cynthia Manick
A. Van Jordan
I Wish the Trees Could Sway to Marvin and Aretha
Something Like Gratitude to the Girl on the ‘5’ Train
All of My Rejected Poems Come Together & Form a Gang
Cynthia Manick, Honorable Mention
Do You Speak Swahili?
Azia Armstead
Winter in America
Jordan E. Franklin
self-portrait as 1968
zakia henderson-brown
To the boy who asked me how
Nia June
Heat Lightning/The Split Tree
Kimberly Reyes
FICTION HYBRID WORK
Gut
Alexis Pauline Gumbs
ESSAYS
That Briar Sureshot
Douglas Kearney
DRAMA/PERFORMANCE
Indigo: A Blues Opera in One Act & Supplementary Materials
Karma Mayet Johnson
VISUAL ART
My Womb es mi Altar: Afro-Latinadad Visions of the Sacred:
Images and Transcript from Exhibition and Artists’ Talk
on January 18, 2019, at Rootwork Gallery, Chicago, IL
Liz Gomez, Verónica Isabel Giraldo-Puente,
Gloria “Gloe One” Talamantes, Teresa Silva & Tracie D. Hall
Real Love, African Style #2
Real Love, African Style #3
The Burst
The Move in Love
Relinquishing Deprivation
Florine Demosthene
Truth is Power…The Tongue is Mightier Than the Sword
Douglas Ewart
Lost
Fabrice B. Poussin
CONTRIBUTORS
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