Digital Table of Contents

General Issue
2022
48.1

Cover Art Front & Back: Maurice Evans, Kano (front) & Shibori (back)

DIGITAL CONTENT

Harlem (Whole Foods)
Turnin’ Heads
Juan Álvarez (Wamoo)

Making an Essential Nigga
Airea Dee Matthews

POETRY

At the Faculty Party
After Chaos Priestess
For Children Who Don’t Know the World Sees Them as Only Black
Maria Hamilton Abegunde

Newports No Longer Burn
A West Side Neighborhood/Another Day in Gibbs Village
Gabrielle Aboki

Your Body Is a Temple of Ancestral Worship
Ifeoluwa Ayandele

Pregnancy Test
Camari Carter-Hawkins

The Other Lagos
The Windsor Knot
Bola Chinelo

Superstitions
Triston Dabney

Little E & Betty B
Martha Darr

Kgalagadi
Roadblock
Shari Daya

Failed Sonnet
Some Days I Stand in Front of the Mirror & Remind Myself
Ayokunle Falomo

Ruins
April Gibson

MY Father’s Shoes: The Gators Speak
Marguerite Harrold

Tijuana River
Bennie Herron

sand lines
F. Geoffrey Johnson

Things we told the wishmaster:
Melissa Jones

Dirty Little Secrets Are Just Another Set of Facts
Dog Fight in the Virginia Avenue Courts
Shawn R. Jones

A Mundane Life
KB

Vagabond
Nwenna Kai

Listening to Emo Music Under Quarantine . . .
Boaz
Aunt Poochie
Erren Kelly

I Got Soul (Golden Shovel after Tupac Shakur, The Poet)
Gina Lee

Making an Essential Nigga
Airea Dee Matthews

Anamnesis
To Remain Myself Longer
Leslie McIntosh

Like Zora Says, “I Love Myself When I Am Laughing”
Gwendolyn Mitchell

Oya
Oluniyi

Deep Listening
Deven Philbrick

USA v. DREXCIYA (16th–20th Centuries)
Republic Day Jouvert
Alyea Pierce

Sleeping with Violence
Simone Reid

Said the Poem
#24. Poet’s Head
#12. UntitledMollyPoem
Said Shaiye

Red Lights Won’t Stop Me
Stewart Shaw

Blackness Constraint
Pendambaye Smith

Relief
Just a Word
Kierra Turnbull

Water Boys
Monica Weatherly

The Dark Is in the Honey
The Thing About Want or the In Between
Samantha Liana Williams

FICTION/HYBRID WORK

The Church Vignettes: My Teenage Self on a Given Sunday
Akhim Alexis

Cups & Saucers
Edidiong Mark Edem

debra
Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Half Notes: On Black Girl Memoir as Fragmented Lyric–Vernacular Theory, Prose Poetic Praxis
Yolanda M. Manora

Gap Tooth
Victor Ola-Matthew

Riot
Tunde Oyebode

ColoredMagic
Mary McLaughlin Slechta

DRAMA/PERFORMANCE

Wild Horses
Brandy Victoria Durham

Sundown Town
Marcus Scott

VISUAL ART

Earth: We make each other
Fire: Do not fear… Thresholds are for crossing
Phyllis Viola Boyd

Children of the Nile
Cris LaNiese

FURIOUS FLOWER POETRY PRIZE, 2021

Introduction to the Furious Flower Poetry Prize, 2021
Lauren K. Alleyne

On the Winning Poems by Aurielle Marie
Erica Hunt, Judge

notes & acknowledgments
transhistorical for the men we love
gxrl gospel ii: & so, we were brave
Aurielle Marie

On the Honorable Mention Poems by Jennifer Bartell
Erica Hunt, Judge

The Will of the Whisper
When you write your mother’s obituary,
Cravings
Jennifer Bartell

I Is an Irrational Number
Amanda Bennett

Hoodoo Manifesto
Ashunda Norris