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A Gathering Together: Literary Journal
past issues
interviews and features
about us
A Gathering Together: Literary Journal
past issues
interviews and features
about us
past issues
interviews and features
about us

Trey Campbell, from Room Service, 2024

Fall 2024

Room The Editors

Story
A Feel Beneath the Skin Jedah Mayberry

Poetry
Self-Exposure/Breadth/Shaking Hands and Inside-Out Destiny Crockett
when is nation? where do we draw the line? (one for Soyinka) Miguel Byrd
A Black Woman will not save you iv: I’m every woman!/Guncle Kinno
my grandmova old map i’m working on/dream-composition Solomon Brooks
Seize the Times, Be conscious— An Instrument of the Black Radical Tradition Sekou Djali
No. 1 [Untitled]/ Sunflower Poem #1/ Here Comes the Hurricane #2/Circadian Rhythm Theory (Sunflower Poem #2) A.L. Reid
& who will honour you right: d’angelo/ & every song needs a witness Tina Zafreen Alam

A Gathering Together is a journal that resists the easy and often unsophisticated attempt to say profound things in the moment, without deep contemplation, or in the heat of discursive battle. Building upon John Birks “Dizzy” Gillespie’s words, we seek to build a place that cultivates and discusses improvised acts of taking ourselves from here to there. We publish works that simultaneously transcend and address the moment they speak from, works that will last beyond the creator’s last breath and still be relevant, and/or works that put the writer and reader in conversation with the intellectual thought of Ancestors of all kinds. In the end, we offer a gathering of works that endure and elevate us to a space of inquiry and move us toward resolution of not only the challenges that mark our lives but also those that can no longer be our realities.

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