
Digital Table of Contents
Radiance
2020
46.2
Cover Art Front and Back: Daniel Coates, The Conch Malkia & Prince of Nyota
Interior Page: Daniel Coates, Mfalme Butterfly

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Studies of E. Brilliance: Spirit. Water. Sound. LIGHT. (2014–2019)
Kimberly M. Harmon
What Not to Do… (Beyond Print, an Ongoing Web Feature)
Michael Warr
Radiant Youth: Stories of Light & Darkness
Heads Up, Seven Up
Sheree Renée Thomas
Cassius
Alex Jennings
Your Name
Stefani Cox
Kroger Cart
C. Liegh McInnis
On the Red Line
Jarohn Johnson
Stars Over Mississippi
Kristina Kay Robinson
Black Girl Magic
Chinonye Omeirondi
Baby Boy
Brianna Johnson
Visions & Words for Youth
Introduction
Nancy D. Tolson, Guest Editor & Wesley Jacques, Associate Guest Editor
Black (from All My Poems Are Little Black Girls)
J. Morris Stone
Sweet Home Chicago
Gail Upchurch
When Boys Have Breasts: The First Kiss
Francis Miller
Narratives in the Life of SoJourner Truth Walker (1 & 2)
Sandra Jackson-Opoku
Urban Decay
Tyrell Collins
The Ghosts in Her Bones
Zetta Elliott
Narratives in the Life of SoJourner Truth Walker (3 & 4)
Sandra Jackson-Opoku
I forgive you, but it is my Christian duty to punish you
Lutivini Majanja
Perched (from All My Poems Are Little Black Girls)
Books (from All My Poems Are Little Black Girls)
J. Morris Stone
Daguerreotype
Mark J. Weaver
Retour au pays natal: What African-Born French Authors Tell Their Young Readers about Their Native Country
Élodie Malanda
Narratives in the Life of SoJourner Truth Walker (5 & 6)
Sandra Jackson-Opoku
Memories of Things Unseen
City View
Running Man
The Field of Dreams
Mark J. Weaver
Church of the Diaspora
Rahel Worku
Theory
Tyrell Collins
autobiography of my mother’s daughter
Emerald Carter
Daddy’s Death Day
Tyrell Collins
Below the Spanish Moss
The Long Road Home
Gatekeeper #1
JRenée
Young Black Americans
Victor Adetunji Johnson
Those Eyes
Kenneth A. Tolson, Jr.
Editors’ Folio
Visual Art
21st c. Pieta
Six Feet Please
Black Votes Matter
Danc’n
Candace Hunter
Portal
Oh Yes I Can
Meditation
Go!
Kimberly M. Harmon
Crown
Andrea Walls
Poetry
Zenith
mind scream of Ironman #28
Omowale Jesse N. Alexander III
Sway
Josh Myers
Charleston Parable
Casey Rocheteau
What Not to Do . . . (an unfinished poem)
Michael Warr
Furious Flower Poetry Prize, 2020
Swaying with Wicked Grace: A Preface to the Furious Flower Folio
Lauren K. Alleyne
On the Winning Poems by Diamond Forde
Kei Miller, Judge
Creation Myth
The First Born
How to Build a Holy Tabernacle
Diamond Forde
On the Honorable Mention Poems by Kweku Abimbola
Kei Miller, Judge
Light-off
Four-in-hand
Hem
Kweku Abimbola
Same Nobody
Sherese Francis
an ode to my mother or how to make prom prom
Maurisa Li-A-Ping
Give us this day
Akosua Zimba Afiriyie-Hwedie
Blueswoman
Florida Women
Desert Roses in the Tropics
Christell Victoria Roach
Sestina for the “sex talk”
Brittany Rogers
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