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

Digital Content

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