Vol 44, No 1 (2018)

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ESSAYS

The Undisputed Color of the Imagination
Aisha Sabatini Sloan
Monuments: Karega Kofi Moyo's Photographing Uprising & Rebellion in Post-MLK Chicago
Tracie D. Hall

POETRY

Numbers
O-Jeremiah Agbaakin
Acts
O-Jeremiah Agbaakin
Now I Play Black Mama Crying Over Dead Son
bridgette bianca
Give Us This Day/Death Is Our Daily Bread
bridgette bianca
A Saturday Night
bridgette bianca
We Will Bring Them to Heel
bridgette bianca
Weed
Nicole Burney
Paraiso
Jeni De La O
Bembe
Jeni De La O
Days Left Half Opened
Renoir Gaither
Indy of My Dreams
Renoir Gaither
To Lovers
Renoir Gaither
Next Spring Early
Gary Galsworth
Never Them
Gary Galsworth
Daughter
Regina Harris Baiocchi
Son
Regina Harris Baiocchi
Anywhere
Regina Harris Baiocchi
Another Smoke-Filled Room
Regina Harris Baiocchi
Where Midnight Stretches
Regina Harris Baiocchi
Identity Marker for the Animal Light (Mixed Seed)
Roberto Harrison
Destroyed by the Screen
Roberto Harrison
The Monk's Spirit Horse
Rosalind Kaliden
Venus of Sandusky/Our Lady of the Snows
Cindy King
Black Horus Blitzss$$
Rose Knapp
Wok Pak Archillect
Rose Knapp
Rejecting the Paper & Me
C.T. Layo
The Rainbow Cannot Find the Exit Door
W.J. Lofton
Places Where We Do Not Have to Whisper Our Names
W.J. Lofton
Black Men Can Cry in Wakanda
W.J. Lofton
Flight
Jamal Michel
Little Kid in a Big Body
Jamal Michel
She Says
Tolu Oloruntoba
Villain/Knell
Tolu Oloruntoba
We Will Have Questions
Tolu Oloruntoba
Periscopes
Tolu Oloruntoba
Al-Tal Haikuu/I-Tal Haiku
Jeremy Jacob Peretz
Quota
Dimitri A. Reyes
When the World Was Flat
Dimitri A. Reyes
Consulting the Cosmos: Breaking Up with 5 O'Clock Telemundo
Dimitri A. Reyes
Assessment of the Urban Dollar
Dimitri A. Reyes
Ebonics - 2000
Victorio Reyes Asili
Legend
John Warner Smith
Nowhere Native II
Kandace Siobhan Walker
Beautiful We're Alive/Sunday
Kandace Siobhan Walker
Cosmology
Anthony Walton
Intervals
Anthony Walton
Scale
Anthony Walton
Scales
Anthony Walton
The Black Keys
Anthony Walton
Diatomaceous
Lisbeth White
Revival
J. Stephen Whitney
The Bad Ones Stayed
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INTERVIEWS

We Belong Here: An Interview with Karega Kofi Moyo
Lee Ann Norman

CONTRIBUTORS

Contributors
Publications Unit

FICTION

Bijou's Potion
Rowana Abbensetts
The NouNou of Star 14
Priscilla Adipa
The Time Is Nigh
Camille F. Forbes
Worth
Racquel Goodison
Greene Cake
Janice Tuck Lively
Kerekou
Iheoma Nwachukwu
The Burden of Beauty
Lola Opatayo

VISUAL ART

Image 1
Karega Kofi Moyo
Image 2
Karega Kofi Moyo
Image 3
Karega Kofi Moyo
Image 4
Karega Kofi Moyo
Image 5
Karega Kofi Moyo
Image 6
Karega Kofi Moyo
Bodies of Each Other
Roberto Harrison
Cloud Consciousness
Roberto Harrison
Infinite Home
Roberto Harrison
Other Signs
Roberto Harrison
The Manitous
Roberto Harrison
Self Portrait
Roberto Harrison


ISSN: 0888-4412