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Vol. 49 No. 2 (2023): OUTTA SIGHT! Sonic Bodies in the Galaxy of Black Listening
Vol. 49 No. 2 (2023): OUTTA SIGHT! Sonic Bodies in the Galaxy of Black Listening
Published:
2025-06-30
OUTTA SIGHT! Sonic Bodies in the Galaxy of Black Listening
OUTTA SIGHT: SONIC BODIES IN THE GALAXY OF BLACK LISTENING
Introduction
Tracie Morris & Duriel E. Harris
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Shout-outs
Tracie Morris & Duriel E. Harris
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Hearing
William Parker
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Ace or Shinamania
'Gbenga Adeoba
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African Romanceooooo
Umm Khadiijah Alliybeeriyyah
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What’s It Hittin’ Fuh
A. H. Jerriod Avant
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Fuh Reasons I’d Rather Ask Befo’ I Tell
A. H. Jerriod Avant
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Freddie King Beatin’ Eggs & It’s All Love
A. H. Jerriod Avant
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Creating the Future
Liza Michelle Bevams
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That Dance We Do
Liza Michelle Bevams
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Stardate 75979.6
Liza Michelle Bevams
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Funktional Fibers—Haikus for Xenobia Bailey
Liza Michelle Bevams
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Cross-Quarter Day
Liza Michelle Bevams
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The Day Alice Was Evicted from the Boogie Wonderland
Richard Byrd
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Shifting Out of Murkiness
Richard Byrd
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2nd lining
Kaylon Cannon
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The Alchemy of Jailbirds
Curtis L. Crisler
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The Lyrics of Liendo Plantation
Delicia Daniels
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Ground Penetrating Radar
Delicia Daniels
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I Can’t Breathe
Delicia Daniels
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Listen
Delicia Daniels
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Poets wear gold grills
Tesha Davilmar
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New Orleans Dollar Store
Toi Derricotte
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Come & Take Your Boy
Cornelius Eady
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God Will Get the Glory
Cornelius Eady
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Perry
Cornelius Eady
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The Nubian Queen Confronts a Future Mother-in-Law
Nicole Favors
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Supersonics of Q-YaRa: Cardiograms Dataflow Language
Sherese Francis
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Daily Prayer
Kindall Gant
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a sestina
Robert Anthony Gibbons
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Essence 2.0
GOODW.Y.N.
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Suffrage 1.0
GOODW.Y.N.
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Glorious 1.0
GOODW.Y.N.
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Dear Angela Y. Davis,
Richard Hamilton
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Dear Esther V. Cooper,
Richard Hamilton
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After Being Asked, What Is your Mothertongue?
Jalynn Harris
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Maud Martha Reads Me
Jalynn Harris
Peach
Jalynn Harris
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That Black Girl: A Play in One Act
Jalynn Harris
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Will Revive Dreamland
Edil Hassan
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Shit in the Blood: A Biomythography of Recipes
Charlene Jean, Bryanna Bradley, Courtney Bryan Devon
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identity theft unlocked
F. Geoffrey Johnson
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orange is new black
F. Geoffrey Johnson
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Dear Sly, [For so long . . . ]
Tobi Kassim
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Dear Sly, [Song off a run-in]
Tobi Kassim
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Dear Sly, [Even the stars . . . ]
Tobi Kassim
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Psalm for the Congregation Under the Streetlights
Jasmine Knowles
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Dear Kwaku: An Excursion into the Operation of Language
Jay Kophy
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Body Politics
Jay Kophy
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Elementary
Jay Kophy
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Peripheral Vision
Jay Kophy
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headlines ripped from troubled pillowcases
Karen Lee
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Song of the Andoumboulou: 350
Nathaniel Mackey
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“Words Don’t Go There”
Nathaniel Mackey
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shadowspeak
Asli Mahdi
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the shapeshifter
Asli Mahdi
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coalescence
Asli Mahdi
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America’s Mania
Bob McNeil
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Black Keepsakes
Me’Chelle
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Dark Honey
Me’Chelle
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Murray’s
Me’Chelle
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Home of Thinned Ice
Joshua Merchant
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Swimming
Kortney Morrow
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Song for Akunzirwe
Jedidiah Mugarura
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My African Diaspora
Harryette Mullen
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March Dance Shadows
Joshua Myers
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So, Reap
Joshua Myers
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Una muy tradicional expiación de sangre
Wingston González
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A very traditional expiation of blood
Urayoán Noel, translator
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Facebook Found Poem
Onome
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Still Life with Elsie’s Plate
SW Patterson
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Rolling
Arianne Elena Payne
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World Making
Vincente G. Perez
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Coming of Age & Learning to Listen with Laura Nyro
Hermine Pinson
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Inheritance
Sterling D. Plumpp
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History
Sterling D. Plumpp
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Butovo Shooting Range, 1937 (remix)
Iain Haley Pollock
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On Black Language of Resistance: a proposition
Victoria Danielle Richards
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Holy Holy Holy
Bishara Riley
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The Syntax of Presence
Mary Rogers-Grantham
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Winter Passenger
Bonnie Crarey Ryan
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Shadows on the Wall
Bonnie Crarey Ryan
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The Sound of Her Silence
Alicia Saadi
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Wookiees in the Wilderness
Marcus Scott
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Excerpt from Un-
Jo Stewart
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Listening to Nigel Hall Cover “Golden Time of the Day” at Lafayette Square
Bernardo Wade
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Trap or Chop
Jorrell Watkins
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In the Event of Emergencies
Jorrell Watkins
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My ‘P’amily Portrait
Ronaldo V. Wilson
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yes indeedy
Yolanda Wisher
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BLACK SHIT
Yolanda Wisher
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PRAYER
Yolanda Wisher
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