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Vol. 48 No. 1 (2022)
Vol. 48 No. 1 (2022)
Published:
2023-06-27
POETRY
At the Faculty Party
Maria Hamilton Abegunde
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After Chaos Priestess
Maria Hamilton Abegunde
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For Children Who Don’t Know the World Sees Them as Only Black
Maria Hamilton Abegunde
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Newports No Longer Burn
Gabrielle Aboki
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A West Side Neighborhood/Another Day in Gibbs Village
Gabrielle Aboki
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Your Body Is a Temple of Ancestral Worship
Ifeoluwa Ayandele
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Pregnancy Test
Camari Carter-Hawkins
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The Other Lagos
Bola Chinelo
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The Windsor Knot
Bola Chinelo
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Superstitions
Triston Dabney
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Little E & Betty B
Martha Darr
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Kgalagadi
Shari Daya
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Roadblock
Shari Daya
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Failed Sonnet
Ayokunle Falomo
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Some Days I Stand in Front of the Mirror & Remind Myself
Ayokunle Falomo
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Ruins
April Gibson
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MY Father’s Shoes
Marguerite Harrold
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Tijuana River Home Grown
Bennie Herron
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sand lines
F. Geoffrey Johnson
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Things we told the wishmaster:
Melissa Jones
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Dirty Little Secrets Are Just Another Set of Facts
Shawn R. Jones
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Dog Fight in the Virginia Avenue Courts
Shawn R. Jones
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A Mundane Life
K B
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Vagabond
Nwenna Kai
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Listening to Emo Music Under Quarantine . . .
Erren Kelly
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Boaz
Erren Kelly
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Aunt Poochie
Erren Kelly
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I Got Soul
Gina Lee
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Making An Essential Nigga
Airea Dee Matthews
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Anamnesis
Leslie McIntosh
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To Remain Myself Longer
Leslie McIntosh
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Like Zora Says, “I Love Myself When I Am Laughing”
Gwendolyn Mitchell
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Oya
Oluniyi Oluniyi
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Deep Listening
Deven Philbrick
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USA v. DREXCIYA
Alyea Pierce
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Republic Day Jouvert
Alyea Pierce
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Sleeping with Violence
Simone Reid
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Said the Poem
Said Shaiye
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#24. Poet’s Head
Said Shaiye
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#12. UntitledMollyPoem
Said Shaiye
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Red Lights Won’t Stop Me
Stewart Shaw
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Blackness Constraint
Pendambaye Smith
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Relief
Kierra Turnbull
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Just a Word
Kierra Turnbull
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Water Boys
Monica Weatherly
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The Dark Is in the Honey
Samantha Liana Williams
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The Thing About Want or the In Between
Samantha Liana Williams
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Introduction to the Furious Flower Poetry Prize, 2021
Lauren K. Alleyne
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On the Winning Poems by Aurielle Marie
Erica Hunt
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notes & acknowledgments
Aurielle Marie
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transhistorical for the men we love
Aurielle Marie
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gxrl gospel ii & so, we were brave
Aurielle Marie
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On the Honorable Mention Poems by Jennifer Bartell
Erica Hunt
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The Will of the Whisper
Jennifer Bartell
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When you write your mother’s obituary,
Jennifer Bartell
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Cravings
Jennifer Bartell
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I Is an Irrational Number
Amanda Bennett
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Hoodoo Manifesto
Ashunda Norris
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Poet/Manifesto
Bakar Wilson
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FICTION
The Church Vignettes
Akhim Alexis
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Cups & Saucers
Edidiong Mark Edem
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debra
Alexis Pauline Gumbs
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Half Notes On Black Girl Memoir as Fragmented Lyric— Vernacular Theory, Prose Poetic Praxis
Yolanda M. Manora
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Gap Tooth
Victor Ola-Matthew
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Riot
Tunde Oyebode
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ColoredMagic
Mary McLaughlin Slechta
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DRAMA/PERFORMANCE
Wild Horses
Brandy Victoria Durham
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Sundown Town
Marcus Scott
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VISUAL ART
Earth We make each other
Phyllis Viola Boyd
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Fire Do not fear . . . Thresholds are for crossing
Phyllis Viola Boyd
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Children of the Nile
Cris LaNiese
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