April 2023

Cover artist: Tré Seals

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Nikki Giovanni
CAConrad
Juan Felipe Herrera
Haki R. Madhubuti
Sonia Sanchez

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Eleven Legends

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On CAConrad: Pan-Dimensional Change Agent in Vibratory Communion

Poem

From “Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return”

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Adrian Matejka
- Eleven Legends
Hoa Nguyen
- On CAConrad: Pan-Dimensional Change Agent in Vibratory Communion
CAConrad
- From “Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return”
- From “Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return”
- From “Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return”
- From “Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return”
- From “Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return”
- From “Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return”
- From “Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return”
John Olivares Espinoza
- To Defy the Myth: On Sandra Cisneros
Jericho Brown
- Leading Us to Revelation: On Rita Dove
Rita Dove
- Apology, with Interruptions
- Evening Constitutional
- Rose Moon Elegy
- LeaveTaking
- Tarnished Psalm
- Unaccompanied Anthem
Virginia C. Fowler
- The Shortest Way Home: On Nikki Giovanni
Nikki Giovanni
- Bay Leaves
- Her Dreams
- Her Dreams #2 (Runner-Up)
- The Longest Way ’Round
Lauro Flores
- Sunrider: On Juan Felipe Herrera
Juan Felipe Herrera
- Mahler—Son Borne of the Street Song
- For George Floyd Was a Great Man
- From “Handful of Gravel, Voices & Mandalas”
- Dawn Will Usher Me
Patricia Spears Jones
- On Angela Jackson: A True Daughter of the Great Migration
Angela Jackson
- Caregiving
- Gwendolyn Brooks Visits Russia in 1982 (Version II)
- Poet
- One Night ZZ Hill Sang at the Club Tupelo
- On the Commuter Train
- Epiphany
Keith Gilyard
- With the Wind in Your Hand: On Haki R. Madhubuti
Haki R. Madhubuti
- ART IV: Remembering Gwendolyn Brooks
- Claiming Language, Claiming Art V
- So Many Books, So Little Time
- Clearing the Forest, This Precious Coupling
- Too Late the Truth
Camille T. Dungy
- Admit a Secret: On Sharon Olds
Sharon Olds
- Golden Shovel: Our Faithfulness
- Addiction Sonnet
- Day of Demonstrations
- Apology
- To You, from Your Secret Admirer
- Mathematical Love Poem, with a Proof
Michael Simanga
- The House of Sonia Sanchez
Sonia Sanchez
- Belly, Buttocks, and Straight Spines
Chet Weise
- A Language of Ciphers: On Patti Smith
Patti Smith
- Worthy the Lamb Slain for Us
- picasso laughing
- jeanne d’arc
- k.o.d.a.k.
Forrest Gander
- Letter to Arthur Sze from Penngrove
Arthur Sze
- Pe‘ahi Light
- Forage
- Midsummer