Vol. 45 No. 1 (2019)

Front Cover Art: Andrea Rushing, King Pistol

Published: 2020-01-22

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POETRY

Bonnaroo, 2012

Schyler Butler
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Reminisce

Schyler Butler
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Miscegenation

Schyler Butler
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Sleepover

Schyler Butler
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Cassini Drowning

Akhim Youseff Cabey
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Yung Antgnzm

jayy dodd
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On Exteriority (Of Full Set: A Litany in 10 Parts)

jayy dodd
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A Gray Fitted

jayy dodd
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PSA #18

jayy dodd
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Shahada

Saddiq Dzukogi
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The Account

Saddiq Dzukogi
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Janaiza

Saddiq Dzukogi
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Edge

Betsy Fagin
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Contour

Betsy Fagin
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Aurora

Betsy Fagin
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Liberty

Betsy Fagin
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Deluxe

Betsy Fagin
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B.A.G. Lady (Black Ark Goddess)

Sherese Francis
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Diasporic End/Beginning

Sherese Francis
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What is a ritual with no return?

Destiny Hemphill
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the future is unsettled

Destiny Hemphill
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six of swords

Destiny Hemphill
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His Lake

George Klawitter
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an autopsy on composition

cathleen margaret
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The Emblem

cathleen margaret
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Gluckliche Reise

B. B. Martin
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The Rights of Ruin

B. B. Martin
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Negro Chimney Sweep

David Mills
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A Six-Sided Cedar Coat

David Mills
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The Body Is a Metropolis

David Mills
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Rufous

Michael J. Newkirk
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Until the Street Lights Cut On

Michael J. Newkirk
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River Child

Omotunde Oredipe
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The Hunter & His Dog

Omotunde Oredipe
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Blackwater

Omotunde Oredipe
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Sufferhead

Omotunde Oredipe
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her husband was not lynched

Angela Redmond-Theodore
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Running Lines

Angela Redmond-Theodore
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Mother-of-Pearl

Angela Redmond-Theodore
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mainstream

Angela Redmond-Theodore
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matisse's femme a l'amphore: a libation for mary turner

Angela Redmond-Theodore
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earth to earth

Louella Sullivan
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Anotha Brotha

Jorrell Watkins
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Apple Pie

Jorrell Watkins
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Small Gifts

Angelique Zobitz
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FURIOUS FLOWER: SEEDING THE FUTURE OF AFRICAN AMERICAN POETRY

On Winner Heather Treseler

Marilyn Nelson
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Beaux Arts

Heather Treseler
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On the Honorable Mention, Keith Wilson

Marilyn Nelson
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53rd street

Keith Wilson
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On Winner Rachelle Parker

A. Van Jordan
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As I Recollect

Rachelle Parker
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I Was A Monsoon, Just Once

Rachelle Parker
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Save Him

Rachelle Parker
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On the Honorable Mention, Cynthia Manick

A. Van Jordan
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I Wish the Trees Could Sway to Marvin and Aretha

Cynthia Manick
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Something Like Gratitude to the Girl on the '5' Train

Cynthia Manick
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All of My Rejected Poems Come Together & Form a Gang

Cynthia Manick
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Do You Speak Swahili?

Azia Armstead
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Winter in America

Jordan E. Franklin
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self-portrait as 1968

zakia henderson-brown
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To the boy who asked me how

Nia June
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Heat Lightning/The Split Trees

Kimberly Reyes
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HYBRID

Gut

Alexis Pauline Gumbs
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ESSAYS

That Briar Sureshot

Douglas Kearney
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DRAMA/PERFORMANCE

Indigo: A Blues Opera in One Act & Supplementary Materials

Karma Mayet Johnson
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VISUAL ART

My Womb es mi Altar: Afro-Latinadad Visions of the Sacred: Images and Transcript from Exhibition and Artists' Talk on January 18, 2019, at Rootwork Gallery, Chicago, IL

Liz Gomez, Verónica Isabel Giraldo-Puente, Gloria "Gloe One" Talamantes, Teresa Silva, Tracie D. Hall
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Real Love, African Style #2

Florine Demosthene
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Real Love, African Style #3

Florine Demosthene
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The Burst

Florine Demosthene
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The Move in Love

Florine Demosthene
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Relinquishing Deprivation

Florine Demosthene
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Truth is Power…The Tongue is Mightier Than the Sword

Douglas Ewart
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Lost

Fabrice B. Poussin
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CONTRIBUTORS

Contributors

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