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Vol. 47 No. 1 (2021)
Vol. 47 No. 1 (2021)
Published:
2022-09-07
POETRY
Barber Shop III—Bedtime Stories
Saleem Abdal-Khaaliq
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Diaspora
Rabih Ahmed
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Calle 100, Marianao
Rabih Ahmed
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The Boy with Moon Skin
Porsha Allen
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Fried Okra
Porsha Allen
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Father
Mildred K Barya
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Ascension
Essah Cozett
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temperate or a tiara’s or the crown’s troubled sonnets’
Trace DePass
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wild petrichor, smell of wild rain, caught in the body, wild disrespectful,
Trace DePass
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senti(m)ent writ(h)ing
Trace DePass
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BIG BLACK MOAT THE MIDST OF EQU(AL)ITY HOODIES POLICED AFTER 9PM!!
Trace DePass
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smiles & other pronounced marks
Trace DePass
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Oh, America
April Freely
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Aperture
Darryl Holmes
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Wayward Would
fahima ife
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What We Owe the Dead
Marcus Jamison
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The magic your body becomes
Michal Jones
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Shards (Sarah Hart persona)
Michal Jones
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Elderly Man at Horseshoe Lake Park (A Fiction)
Michal Jones
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all natural
Mukethe Kawinzi
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bloodsport
Mukethe Kawinzi
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Sonnet #1
Arnold J. Kemp
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Sonnet #3
Arnold J. Kemp
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An Unfinished List of All the Shiny Things We Bury
Aris Kian
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Replying in the Hour of God
Aris Kian
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land acknowledgment ii
Aris Kian
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lines of flight
Aris Kian
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Where the Apocalypse Is a Club at the Intersection
Aris Kian
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speculation (of the phantom)
Shayla Lawz
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speculation (of the dream) part 2
Shayla Lawz
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Score
Shalewa Mackall
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Nyctalopia
Shalewa Mackall
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Flower Boi
MARS Marshall
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Abecedarian on Dysphoria
MARS Marshall
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Ode to the Stud
MARS Marshall
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Frank Speaks to Flower Boi
MARS Marshall
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Grayscale
Alexia Nader
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News
Fasasi Abdulrosheed Oladipupo
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Heard There Was a Thud at Ezu River
Salawu Olajide
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[Submission]
Scheherazade Washington Parrish
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[Submission] Schutz Has History
Scheherazade Washington Parrish
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Hannah Black’s Erasure
Scheherazade Washington Parrish
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A Pietá: What Does It Mean to Be Black & Look at This
Scheherazade Washington Parrish
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Imagining Frida Kahlo as My Life Coach
Glenis Redmond
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Embodiment: Notes from The Archivist’s Logbook, I & We Travel Time
L. Renée
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Let the fire birth
Edythe Rodriguez
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I Feel Most African
Edythe Rodriguez
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How to Make Tea
Aaron El Sabrout
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Hotep the Barber
Aaron El Sabrout
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Belmont Nights
Amílcar Peter Sanatan
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Port-of-Spain Blues
Amílcar Peter Sanatan
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Whipping Master
Zawadi Sayyid
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So Rapt a Quiet
Zawadi Sayyid
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“The woman stopped struggling and appeared to go limp.”
darlene anita scott
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sunday in oakland
Daniel B. Summerhill
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footnotes for kanye (after jasmine mans)
Daniel B. Summerhill
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fear (after kendrick lamar)
Daniel B. Summerhill
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chile’ as in you
Daniel B. Summerhill
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on deciding to leave my tail out
Daniel B. Summerhill
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Her horse
Samuel Ugbechie
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Poem191
Dennis Williams II
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Poem234
Dennis Williams II
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Ark • 123
Taylor N. Wilson
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The Undergrowth with Two Figures
Ellen June Wright
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“The Ground Here Is Soft and Broken”
Ellen June Wright
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FICTION
Mama’s Kitchen
Jill Robinson Beadle
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Stone Fishing
Morgan Christie
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Still Going: A Crônica
Kenning JP García
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Riding with Death
Michael A. Gonzales
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Taiwo
Sheree L. Greer
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Naked
Alicia Harmon
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The Way We Pray
M’Bha Kamara
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Desert Flowers Have Deeper Roots
Oghenesuvwe Kokoricha
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The Month of the Grape Harvest, 1959
Trevor Lanuzza
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If You Live in Marion Heights
Christian Loriel Lucas
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Man of the House
Arlene McKanic
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The Cemetery at No. 16
Olufunke Ogundimu
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The Phial of Olodumare
Joshua Omenga
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Louvinie’s Tongue
Ronda Racha Penrice
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DRAMA/PERFORMANCE
notes on performance: proximity
Shayla Lawz
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VISUAL ART
Congado Strength & Faith
Guilherme Bergamini
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From the Mythical Memory Series
Monica J. Brown
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Hair Flood
Vicky Charles
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Negro
Vicky Charles
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Shoedawgs
Marvin Tate
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Layered in Trues
Marvin Tate
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Sashay
Andrea Walls
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Embedded Charcoal Series 1: Maryland White Oak
R. Treshawn Williamson
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