A full-color double issue has the special features "Call & Response: Experiments in Joy," guest edited by Gabrielle Civil and Ebony Noëlle Golden, and "Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry," guest edited by Meta DuEwa Jones, Keith D. Leonard, and giovanni singleton, as well as general issue content.
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CALL & RESPONSE: EXPERIMENTS IN JOY
| Call & Response: Experiments in Joy: An Introduction | |
| Gabrielle Civil |
| Getting to Joy: Emergence(s) & Experimentation/s | |
| Ebony Noëlle Golden |
| Other Selves | |
| Tracey Rose Peyton |
| Finding Rest (from Straight Yellow Jacket) | |
| Maxie A. Rockymore |
| Weave of Motives (after Hortense Spillers) | |
| Alexis Pauline Gumbs |
| From Headwraps & Haikus | |
| t. tara turk |
| Convening: An Archive | |
| Convening: An Archive |
| Announcing the Call: July 22, 2014 | |
| Announcing the Call |
| from Call & Response: Artists Announce the Call: Experiments in Joy | |
| Call & Response Artists |
| Call & Response: Experiments in Joy Festival: August 22–24 (Web Announcement) | |
| Call & Response Artists |
| Paint Like a Man! | |
| Wura-Natasha Ogunji |
| Tiny Winey | |
| Rosamond S. King |
| _____ Is the Thing with Feathers | |
| Gabrielle Civil |
| Cooking Kentifrican Cuisine with Chef Isaac DeLamatre | |
| Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle |
| my brown body, this i know: in response to The Call (part i) | |
| Miré Regulus |
| La Mujer Maravilla Exploración #4 | |
| Awilda Rodríguez Lora |
| SPIN: Brighter Days Music Factory | |
| Duriel E. Harris |
| Experiments in Joy | |
| Chloë Bass |
| Kentifrican Cultural Practices: An Experiment in Joy | |
| Kevin McGruder |
| Utopic Mappings: Performing Joy | |
| Elizabeth Currans |
| “I don’t write to God no more…I write to you”: A Recipe & Ritual for an Epistolary Connection (with You) | |
| Indigo X |
| An Open Letter to Bob Marley: Time to Create Reggae Dialogues | |
| Deanne Bell |
| from me & Nina: A Play in One Act | |
| Monica A. Hand |
| Growing Pains | |
| Tonya Cherie Hegamin |
| Recall, Response & Rememory | |
| Lewis Wallace |
| Sky | |
| Reginald Eldridge, Jr. |
| Good News | |
| Reginald Eldridge, Jr. |
| Call & Response: Experiments in Joy: An Introduction | |
| Gabrielle Civil |
GENERAL ISSUE
| Autumn with Spiders | |
| Ngwatilo Mawiyoo |
| Slough | |
| Justin Phillip Reed |
| Figure 02. “Orientation” | |
| Justin Phillip Reed |
| For the Tattooed Woman at Lefty’s Tap | |
| Adrian S. Potter |
| people in glass towers should not imagine us | |
| t’ai freedom ford |
| dear ebonics | |
| t’ai freedom ford |
| dear ebonics (postscript) | |
| t’ai freedom ford |
| Bare | |
| Tiffany Austin |
| Poem for James Reese Europe | |
| Paul r. Harding |
| Crystal Stair | |
| Cole Lavalais |
| Muhammad Ali, in Atlanta, 1996 | |
| Brian Gilmore |
| The Uses of Salt | |
| M. Shelly Conner |
| Auction | |
| Gabrielle Civil |
| “A Lion at Pendleton”: Charles Johnson’s Reimagining of a Moment | |
| Toni Pressley-Sanon |
| Romantic & Romanticized International Journeying: Marita Golden’s Migrations of the Heart | |
| Trudier Harris |
FURIOUS FLOWER: SEEDING THE FUTURE OF AFRICAN AMERICAN POETRY
| Poets in Old Age | |
| Toi Derricotte |
| At an Abraham Lincoln Celebration | |
| Toi Derricotte |
| For the young cherry tree in my yard | |
| Toi Derricotte |
| Lemons | |
| Yusef Komunyakaa |
| Turner’s Great Tussle with Water | |
| Yusef Komunyakaa |
| Benbannik uhday yoesay-day / Their Name is Benbannik | |
| Douglas Kearney |
| Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz | |
| Marilyn Nelson |
| Henriette deLille | |
| Marilyn Nelson |
| Three Railroad Pieces; Three Towns: The Distance | |
| C. S. Giscombe |
| Three Railroad Pieces; Three Towns: A Train at Night | |
| C. S. Giscombe |
| Three Railroad Pieces; Three Towns: From Ohio Railroads | |
| C. S. Giscombe |
| Eleggua & Eshu Ain’t the Same | |
| Phillip B. Williams |
| The Master Bedroom | |
| Mendi + Keith Obadike |
| Disclosure | |
| Mendi + Keith Obadike |
| Gun Carriage at Old Fort | |
| Mark McMorris |
| Paradise & Plantation | |
| Mark McMorris |
| vial two | |
| Raina J. León |
| after the cinema | |
| Raina J. León |
| Mercy | |
| Quincy Troupe |
| 2. Rituals of Sacraments Romare Saw in the Mirror | |
| Quincy Troupe |
| 3. Cutouts Romare Saw in the Streets | |
| Quincy Troupe |
| Seeding the Future Is Seeing the Future of African American Poetry | |
| Meta DuEwa Jones, Keith D. Leonard |
| The Work of Black Literature in the Age of Digital Reproducibility | |
| John Keene |
| “She Is Twenty-Three Months Pregnant”: The Quare, Black Maternity & Bob Kaufman’s Surreal (Re)vision of the African American Migration Narrative | |
| L. Lamar Wilson |
| Innocence & Fury: Reading the Pink in Rita Dove’s Mother Love | |
| Althea Tait |
| “soundtrack for a generational shift”: Music & Innovation in Evie Shockley’s the new black | |
| Laura Vrana |
| Being There, Doing That: DC’s Dasein | |
| Aldon Lynn Nielsen |
CONTRIBUTORS
| Contributors | |
| Editors Editors |
ISSN: 0888-4412