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Vol. 49 No. 1 (2023)
Published:
2025-02-07
POETRY
Our Exoselves
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Breaching The Surface
Samaa Abdurraqib
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What Kind of Creature Is This?
Samaa Abdurraqib
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Water Poem
Afua Ansong
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What Happens in the Mountains
Afua Ansong
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Afro-Pessimism 101: Quiz on Afroelectrostatics & Black Capacitance
Makalani Bandele
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blacksound/\verdantdreams
simóne j banks
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Eating/Feeding: July 12, 1790
Angela Williams Bickham
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Edges
Naila Buckner
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Girl Remembers a Place Even Columbus Wouldn't Miss
Schyler Butler
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Girl Reads About the Nineteen Dead Children
Schyler Butler
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But Did You Die, Tho?
Constance Collier-Mercado
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Some Shit to Carry on the Outside
Quintin Collins
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The Father, the Son & the Hospital Chaplain
Quintin Collins
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Tooth Fairy
Triston Dabney
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Astral Traveling
Mitchell L. H. Douglas
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ATL
Mitchell L. H. Douglas
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Liner Notes: NWA & the Posse, 1987
Mitchell L.H. Douglas
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, Eric, Sandra, Breonna, George,
Thames J. Ellis
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Courtland
Latorial Faison
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My Beloved Companion,
Danielle Legros Georges
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A Reply of Pauline Opango Lumumba
Danielle Legros Georges
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Joy
c.r. glasgow
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Waterbabies
c.r. glasgow
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Cinderella 2019
Marguerite L. Harrold
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She Sang Jazz Two
Hakim Hasan
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The Butterfly's Effect
isaiah a. hines
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Youtubes My Mom Sends Me
Fatima-Ayan Malika Hirsi
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No Knock Warrant
Sara E. Hughes
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X (Session)
Sara E. Hughes
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Thanksgiving
Sara E. Hughes
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Girl
Sara E. Hughes
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Love Cover Letter
Michael Imossan
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Drills
Chiagoziem Jideofor
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From Migration Letters
M. Nzadi Keita
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Jazz Epistle, Verse 1
Arlene Keizer
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John & Harriet Tubman, 1844
Arlene Keizer
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The Law
Arlene Keizer
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Writing You From a Plague Year
Arlene Keizer
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Blindfold Wonder
Brandon Kilbourne
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A Benevolent Terror
Sequoia Maner
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Tenderloin
Thea Matthews
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Take a Risk
Thea Matthews
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The Potted Plant Dreams of Freedom
Gathondu Mwangi
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The Intimacy of Boda Bodas1
Gathondu Mwangi
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SPF 40
Cynthia Parker-Ohene
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The Tomboy Becomes a Girl
Jassmine Parks
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Séance at the Beauty Parlor
Kimberly Reyes
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Boot Strap Up
Ed Roberson
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Liturgy of Ancestral Flesh & Neuromimetic Circuitry
Terrance Ruff
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Namesake
Rohanna Ssanyu
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Milk Tea with Sengbe Pieh
Rohanna Ssanyu
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Papaya Tree
Rohanna Ssanyu
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Garner on Bay Street
Dana L. Stringer
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#sayunnamed
Dana L. Stringer
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Black Histories, exhibits one to four-and-a-half: A Nonchronological Call & Response
Wendy M. Thompson
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"Miles Runs the Voodoo Down" in Four Takes
Tjizembua Tjikuzu
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Momma's Stirred Kitchen Breeze
Dana Tenille Weekes
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White Table Sugar
Dana Tenille Weekes
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FICTION
Hattie Guillory & the One Drop Rule
Celine Aenlle-Rocha
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Kissing Boys
Stephanie Avery
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Other
Emily Capers
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Zephyrine
Ashley J. Hobbs
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Alycia
Megan J. Howell
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Song for a Saturday Night
Eddie Mark
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The Revenant
Kangsen “Yassay” Masango
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Something So Beautiful
Robert Osborne
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Blind Man with a Pistol
Linda Trice
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Flowers
Jade T. Woodridge
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DRAMA/PERFORMANCE
The Substitute
Leodis Smith
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VISUAL ART
Blue Islands
Maroula Blades
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Nigeria Calls
Maroula Blades
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Untitled
Maroula Blades
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through trumpet
shakirah peterson
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baptism under galaxies
shakirah peterson
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FURIOUS FLOWER POETRY PRIZE
On the Winning & Honorable Mention Poems
Tim Seibles
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Love Poem in the Black Field
Ariana Benson
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Black Pastoral: Earlier Fields
Ariana Benson
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Theodicy on My Blackness
Ariana Benson
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On Arthur & August
Benin Lemus
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Black Angels in America
Benin Lemus
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Second Chances
Benin Lemus
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Queensborough
Amy M. Alvarez
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Birthright. Bewitching. Believing.
Janel Cloyd
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The Lost Boys
Vernita Hall
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After We Sip Shug Avery
Oak Morse
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Plantation Etymology
Ashunda Norris
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