July/August 2024
Cover Artist: Lynne Yun at Space TypeMay all living thingsJessica Abughattas
be happy one day.
But let them take their time.
- Felicia Zamora
- Staceyann Chin
- Ibe Liebenberg
- M. Seppola Simonsen
- Ronaldo V. Wilson
From this Issue
Poem
By Cheryl Clarke
Mother
Emanuel African Methodist
Episcopal Church Nine
Senior pastor state senator...
Poem
By G.C. Waldrep
It was not a question of not having the language for it—
having two, in fact. The walking towards it,
and then the walking away. How that felt, all the green
gathering itself to the idea of green, lingering...
Table of Contents
POEMS
- Adrian Matejka
- Jessica Abughattas
- Cheryl Clarke
- G.C. Waldrep
- Brian Sneeden
- Phoebe Giannisi
- Ibe Liebenberg
- Brandon Young
- Felicia Zamora
- M. Seppola Simonsen
- Eirill Alvilde Falck
- Erin Belieu
- Angela Ball
- Joseph O. Legaspi
- Kinsale Drake
UP WE STEP: THE POETS OF FIRE & INK
- Samiya Bashir
- Sharon Bridgforth
- Marvin K. White
- Alexis Pauline Gumbs
- Phillip B. Williams
- Bettina Judd
- Dawn Lundy Martin
- Steven G Fullwood
- Rickey Laurentiis
- Cheryl Boyce-Taylor
- Cheryl Clarke
- t’ai freedom ford
- avery r. young
- Letta Neely
- R. Erica Doyle
- C.C. Carter
- Reginald Harris
- Rev. Robin G. White
- Ronaldo V. Wilson
- Staceyann Chin
- Dorothy Randall Gray
- Pamela Sneed
- Rosamond S. King
- Lenelle Moïse
- Alexis De Veaux
- Andrea Jenkins
- G. Winston James
- JP Howard
- Duriel E. Harris
- Amanda Johnston
COMMENT
CONTRIBUTORS
- Jessica Abughattas
- Angela Ball
- Samiya Bashir
- Erin Belieu
- Cheryl Boyce-Taylor
- Sharon Bridgforth
- C.C. Carter
- Staceyann Chin
- Cheryl Clarke
- Alexis De Veaux
- R. Erica Doyle
- Kinsale Drake
- Eirill Alvilde Falck
- Steven G Fullwood
- Phoebe Giannisi
- Dorothy Randall Gray
- Alexis Pauline Gumbs
- Reginald Harris
- Duriel E. Harris
- JP Howard
- G. Winston James
- Andrea Jenkins
- Amanda Johnston
- Bettina Judd
- Rosamond S. King
- Rickey Laurentiis
- Joseph O. Legaspi
- Ibe Liebenberg
- Dawn Lundy Martin
- Adrian Matejka
- Kim Moore
- Lenelle Moïse
- Letta Neely
- M. Seppola Simonsen
- Pamela Sneed
- Brian Sneeden
- G.C. Waldrep
- Marvin K. White
- Rev. Robin G. White
- Phillip B. Williams
- Ronaldo V. Wilson
- Brandon Young
- Felicia Zamora
- t’ai freedom ford
- avery r. young