July/August 2021

Cover artist: Jade Pilgrom

Everything you utter
is a prayer.
Kwame Opoku-Duku

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Crystal Simone Smith
Hyejung Kook
Kwame Opoku-Duku
Aileen Cassinetto
L. Lamar Wilson

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Article

Editor’s Note

Poem

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Poetry

Ashley M. Jones
- Editor’s Note
Kwame Opoku-Duku
- sonnet for the day of the lord
- Lord Knows
Rob Schlegel
- Poetry
L. Lamar Wilson
- Burden Hill Apothecary & Babalú-Ayé Prepare Stinging Nettle Tea
- Aubade Tanka
Jennifer Horne
- Openings for Encounters with Poetry
- Out Walking
Aliyah Cotton
- What a Poem Cannot Do
- Plastic Bag from Corner Store Laments the Self
Voice Porter
- Sun Ra Ethos
- A Poem for Indigo
Aileen Cassinetto
- Tanaga: After Katy de la Cruz
JoAnn Balingit
- Tanaga: Song Where Every Filipinx Person Is Standing by the Ocean
Sofia M. Starnes
- Tanaga: For Philippine-American Lovers
Luisa A. Igloria
- Tanaga: What Hailed Us & What We Made
Debora Kuan
- Poetry as Expansive Compassion
- The Night After You Lose Your Job
Josh Alex Baker
- Death Wish
Monica Ong
- Solstice Blessing
- Diaspora Nova
Kimberly Casey
- Golden Hour
- Irish Goodbye
Beth Ann Fennelly
- Two Sisters, One Thinner, One Better Dressed
- A Wing and a Prayer
Tennessee Hill
- Driving Home from Keyworth’s
Jacqueline Allen Trimble
- Poem for My Neighbor Whose Good Intentions Are Wolf Pelt
- The Language of Joy
- This Is Why People Burning Down Fast Food Joints and Whatnot
- A Woman Cohabitates with Three Men
Alina Stefanescu
- Poem for the Black Bird
Jason McCall
- I Just Want to Live Long Enough to See Allen Iverson Live Long Enough to Get His Reebok Check
- My Great-Great-Great-Great-Grandfather Who Owned My Great-Great-Great-Great-Grandmother Also Owned a Jewelry Store and a Railroad, So He Probably Had a Dope Watch
Pablo Otavalo
- Christian County, Illinois
Janice Lobo Sapigao
- More Politics Than Poetry
Lêdo Ivo
- To Vermin
Elizabeth Bradfield
- Plastic: A Personal History
Charlotte Pence
- As a Child, You Worried You Would Be an Orphan
Donna Aza Weir-Soley
- 8 Minutes and 46 Seconds
Nabila Lovelace
- 3. why I couldn’t tell a pigeon from a dove
- Another Country
Jason Méndez
- Remember the Wind
Kai Coggin
- Filling Spice Jars as Your Wife
Hyejung Kook
- Spring Coronal
Laura Secord
- Bee Whisperer
M. Bartley Seigel
- In the Bone-Cracking Cold
- On the Upper Hand
Kwoya Fagin Maples
- The Beach Is Host to Small Things
- Here’s an Ocean Tale
Crystal Simone Smith
- Oscar Grant
- Black Mothers and Sons
- Rodney King
TC Tolbert
- Our Only Allegiance Is to Each Other

CONTRIBUTORS

Josh Alex Baker
JoAnn Balingit
Elizabeth Bradfield
Kimberly Casey
Aileen Cassinetto
Kai Coggin
Aliyah Cotton
Beth Ann Fennelly
Tennessee Hill
Jennifer Horne
Luisa A. Igloria
Lêdo Ivo
Ashley M. Jones
Hyejung Kook
Debora Kuan
Nabila Lovelace
Kwoya Fagin Maples
Jason McCall
Jason Méndez
Monica Ong
Kwame Opoku-Duku
Pablo Otavalo
Charlotte Pence
Voice Porter
Janice Lobo Sapigao
Rob Schlegel
Laura Secord
M. Bartley Seigel
Crystal Simone Smith
Sofia M. Starnes
Alina Stefanescu
TC Tolbert
Jacqueline Allen Trimble
Donna Aza Weir-Soley
L. Lamar Wilson

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