Tafari Melisizwe, “Tradition and Modernity - Chicago, IL,” 2023
Fall 2025
Notice The Editors
Poetry
As Licentious As It May Sound, Grief is a Blessing/Twice Have I Heard (For Deacon Smalls)/I Remember Chitlin’ Circuit/ The Women That Surround You (For Nephraterie) Zoé Coker
Behold/emboldened Itohan Osaigbovo
Martyrs (For Botham Jean)/Sister/He, Homecoming/She, Homegoing Mali Collins
messenger: whitten and wilkins Miguel Byrd
Essay
How To Eat Grits Audrey Shipp
Travel Notes from Noepe, or “Martha’s Vineyard” Kimberly Monroe
What Goes Around Comes Around: On Reading the World and Hearing the Word Christopher R. Rogers
Review
Blues As the Light Passing Through Shadows of Sorrow: On Remica Bingham-Risher’s Room Swept Home Julia Mallory