
Digital Table of Contents
GENERAL ISSUE
2021
47.1
Cover Art Front & Back: Musah Swallah, Lemon Hair & Half Currency
Interior Page: Musah Swallah, Invisible Hair

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Adé for latchkey girl, age 6
Adé for latchkey girl, age 9
Adé for latchkey girl, age 13
Karen Miranda Augustine
The Nerve of Death
Soopah Thik
A Reason to Git Back
A. H. Jerriod Avant
Aunt Sara
Saffronia
Sweet Thing
Peaches
Candace Hunter (chlee)
Jump Up Sistahs
We Will Not Be Erased
The People Would Feel
We Go from Here
See Then Now
Umi Owl Moon
Soraya Jean-Louis
Dischord Dissolving
Discarded
Mankwe Ndosi
Poetry
Barber Shop III—Bedtime Stories
Saleem Abdal-Khaaliq
Diaspora
Calle 100, Marianao
Rabih Ahmed
The Boy with Moon Skin
Fried Okra
Porsha Allen
Father
Mildred K Barya
Ascension
Essah Cozett
temperate or a tiara’s or the crown’s troubled sonnets’
wild petrichor, smell of wild rain, caught in the body, wild disrespectful,
senti(m)ent g writ(h)ing g
BIG BLACK MOAT g THE MIDST OF EQU(AL)ITY f HOODIES POLICED AFTER 9PM!!
smiles & other pronounced marks
Trace DePass
Oh, America
April Freely
Aperture
Darryl Holmes
Wayward Would
fahima ife
What We Owe the Dead
Marcus Jamison
The magic your body becomes
Shards (Sarah Hart persona)
Elderly Man at Horseshoe Lake Park (A Fiction)
Michal Jones
all natural
bloodsport
Mukethe Kawinzi
Sonnet #1
Sonnet #3
Arnold J. Kemp
An Unfinished List of All the Shiny Things We Bury
Replying in the Hour of God
land acknowledgment ii
lines of flight
Where the Apocalypse Is a Club at the Intersection
Aris Kian
speculation (of the phantom)
speculation (of the dream) part 2
Shayla Lawz
Score
Nyctalopia
Shalewa Mackall
Flower Boi
Abecedarian on Dysphoria
Ode to the Stud
Frank Speaks to Flower Boi
MARS Marshall
Grayscale
Alexia Nader
News
Fasasi Abdulrosheed Oladipupo
Heard There Was a Thud at Ezu River
Salawu Olajide
[Submission]
[Submission] Schutz Has History
Hannah Black’s Erasure
A Pietá: What Does It Mean to Be Black & Look at This
Scheherazade Washington Parrish
Imagining Frida Kahlo as My Life Coach
Glenis Redmond
Embodiment: Notes from The Archivist’s Logbook, I & We Travel Time
L. Renée
Let the fire birth
I Feel Most African
Edythe Rodriguez
How to Make Tea
Hotep the Barber
Aaron El Sabrout
Belmont Nights
Port-of-Spain Blues
Amílcar Peter Sanatan
Whipping Master
So Rapt a Quiet
Zawadi Sayyid
“The woman stopped struggling and appeared to go limp.”
darlene anita scott
sunday in oakland
footnotes for kanye (after jasmine mans)
fear (after kendrick lamar)
chile’ as in you
on deciding to leave my tail out
Daniel B. Summerhill
Her horse
Samuel Ugbechie
Poem191
Poem234
Dennis Williams II
Ark
Taylor N. Wilson
The Undergrowth with Two Figures
“The Ground Here Is Soft and Broken”
Ellen June Wright
Fiction/Hybrid Work
Mama’s Kitchen
Jill Robinson Beadle
Stone Fishing
Morgan Christie
Still Going: A Crônica
Kenning JP García
Riding with Death
Michael A. Gonzales
Taiwo
Sheree L. Greer
Naked
Alicia Harmon
The Way We Pray
M’Bha Kamara
Desert Flowers Have Deeper Roots
Oghenesuvwe Kokoricha
The Month of the Grape Harvest, 1959
Trevor Lanuzza
If You Live in Marion Heights
Christian Loriel Lucas
Man of the House
Arlene McKanic
The Cemetery at No. 16
Olufunke Ogundimu
The Phial of Olodumare
Joshua Omenga
Louvinie’s Tongue
Ronda Racha Penrice
Drama/Performance
notes on performance: proximity
Shayla Lawz
Visual Art
Congado Strength & Faith
Guilherme Bergamini
From the Mythical Memory Series
Monica J. Brown
Hair Flood
Negro
Vicky Charles
Shoedawgs
Layered in Trues
Marvin Tate
Sashay
Andrea Walls
Embedded Charcoal Series 1: Maryland White Oak
R. Treshawn Williamson
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