Digital Table of Contents

general issue

Cover Art Front & Back: Nedia Were, The End of a New Beginning (front) & Full Moon (back)

DIGITAL CONTENT

get down witcha black self, a tertiary funk
makalani bandele

POETRY

our exoselves
[jp/p]

Breaching the Surface
What Kind of Creature Is This?
Samaa Abdurraqib

Water Poem
What Happens in the Mountains
Afua Ansong

Afro-pessimism 101: Quiz on Afroelectrostatics & Black Capacitance
makalani bandele

blacksound/\verdantdreams
simóne j banks

Eating/Feeding: July 12, 1790
Angela Williams Bickham

Edges
Naila Buckner

Girl Remembers a Place Even Columbus Wouldn’t Miss
Girl Reads About the Nineteen Dead Children
Schyler Butler

But Did You Die, Tho?
Constance Collier-Mercado

Some Shit to Carry on the Outside
The Father, The Son & the Hospital Chaplain
Quintin Collins

Tooth Fairy
Triston Dabney

Astral Traveling
ATL
Liner Notes: NWA & the Posse, 1987
Mitchell L. H. Douglas

, Eric, Sandra, Breonna, George,
Thames J. Ellis

Courtland
Latorial Faison

My beloved companion,
A Reply of Pauline Opango Lumumba
Danielle Legros Georges

joy
waterbabies
c.r. Glasgow

Cinderella 2019
Marguerite L. Harrold

She Sang Jazz Two
Hakim Hasan

The butterfly’s effect
isaiah a. hines

YouTubes My Mom Sends Me
Fatima-Ayan Malika Hirsi

no knock warrant
X (Session)
thanksgiving
girl
Sara E. Hughes

Love Cover letter
Michael Imossan

Drills
Chiagoziem Jideofor

From Migration Letters
M. Nzadi Keita

Jazz Epistle, Verse I
John & Harriet Tubman, 1844
The Law
Writing You from a Plague Year
Arlene Keizer

Blindfold Wonder
Brandon Kilbourne

A Benevolent Terror
Sequoia Maner

Tenderloin
Take a Risk
Thea Matthews

The potted plant dreams of freedom
The intimacy of boda bodas
Gathondu Mwangi

SPF 40
Cynthia Parker-Ohene

the tomboy becomes a girl
Jassmine Parks

Séance at the Beauty Parlor
Kimberly Reyes

Boot Strap Up
Ed Roberson

Liturgy of Ancestral Flesh & Neuromimetic Circuitry
Terrance Ruff

Namesake
Milk Tea with Sengbe Pieh
Papaya Tree
Rohanna Ssanyu

garner on bay street
#sayunnamed
Dana L. Stringer
Black Histories, exhibits one to four-and-a-half: A Nonchronological Call & Response
Wendy M. Thompson

“Miles Runs the Voodoo Down” in Four Takes
Tjizembua Tjikuzu

Momma’s Stirred Kitchen Breeze
White Table Sugar
Dana Tenille Weekes

FICTION/HYBRID WORK

Hattie Guillory & the One Drop Rule
Celine Aenlle-Rocha

Kissing Boys
Stephanie Avery

Other
Emily Capers

Zephyrine
Ashley J. Hobbs

Alycia
Megan J. Howell

Song for a Saturday Night
Eddie Mark

The Revenant
Kangsen “Yassay” Masango

Something So Beautiful
Robert Osborne

Blind Man with a Pistol
Linda Trice

Flowers
Jade T. Woodridge

DRAMA/PERFORMANCE

The Substitute
Leodis Smith

VISUAL ART
Blue Islands
Nigeria Calls
Untitled
Maroula Blades

through trumpet
baptism under galaxies
shakirah Peterson

FURIOUS FLOWER POETRY PRIZE, 2022

On the Winning & Honorable Mention Poems
Tim Seibles, Judge

Love Poem in the Black Field
Black Pastoral: Earlier Fields
Theodicy on My Blackness
Ariana Benson, Winner

On Arthur & August
Black Angels in America
Second Chances
Benin Lemus, Honorable Mention

Queensborough
Amy M. Alvarez, Finalist

Birthright. Bewitching. Believing.
Janel Cloyd, Finalist

The Lost Boys
Vernita Hall, Finalist

After We Sip Shug Avery
Oak Morse, Finalist

Plantation Ety•mo•lo•gy
Ashunda Norris, Finalist