POETRY
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| Arielle Greenberg |
"The Hex" |
| Sandy Longhorn |
"Having Been Begotten" |
| Shanan Ballam |
"Red Riding Hood in the Forest" |
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"Red Riding Hood to Grandmother" |
| Denise Duhamel |
"Break up" |
| Jane Springer |
"The Bride Who Might Have Been" |
Susanna
Childress |
"Mother
as Opalescent Bottle" |
| Stephanie Taylor |
"Unrequite" |
| Olivia Clare |
"Dora" |
| Maureen Seaton |
"Fractal Pirates (Five Iterations)" |
| Greg Bachar |
"Amsterdam, 1936" |
| Orlando Richardo Menes |
"Zafra" |
| Aimee Nezhukumatathil |
"Four Amulets
for a Frightened Farmer" |
| Diana Park |
"Black Tide" |
| John
Thomas
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"Ghost Pulp" |
| William Wright |
"Hell" |
| G.C. Waldrep |
"In Like Spirit of Saintliness" |
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"My Brezhnev Moment" |
| Mark Halliday |
"Warren" |
| Jynne Dilling Martin |
"Hymn for All Beasts" |
| Beckian Fritz Goldberg |
"My Dream as the Beloved" |
| Gary Soto |
"The Troubadour & the Troubadour's Dog" |
| Nicky Beer |
"Nature Film, Directed by Martin Scorsese" |
| Ed Haworth Hoeppner |
"Stippling, Winter: Letter to a Tropical
Mind " |
| Lance Larsen |
"Why do you keep putting animals in your
poems?" |
THE
FUNK FEATURE....................................................... |
| Abdel Shakur |
Editor's Note |
| ART |
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| Overton Loyd |
"Trombipulation Time" |
| Diem Jones |
"Bop Gun Blues" |
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"Rump-Of-Steelskin's Booty" |
| Pedro Bell |
"Motherhood in Red, Black, & Green (1972)" |
| Krista Franklin |
"Godfather" |
| Thomas Sayers Ellis |
"I'm Payin Taxes, What Am I Buyin?" |
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"My Thang" |
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"Bewildered" |
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"What My Baby Needs is a Little More Loving" |
| Noel W. Anderson |
"Blacktoun Citizen Speaks" |
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"Blacktoun Late Fo Sairomone (detail)" |
| Scott Chernis |
"George Clinton" |
| POETRY
& FICTION |
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| Terrance Hayes |
"Psychoalphadiscobetabioaquadolipic Warning" |
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"Light Head's Guide to Addition" |
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"Bullet Head" |
| Patrick Rosal |
"Making Love to You the Night They Take Your
Father to Prison" |
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"Despedida Con el Olor de Almendras" |
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"Throwing Down a Book of Poems I Run Toward
an Open Window..." |
| Rachel Eliza Griffiths |
"Icarus Dreams of the Godfather" |
| Aracelis Girmay |
"Orpheus, When Your Voice Is Dressed in Jackal" |
| Honorée Fanonne Jeffers |
"Mad Dog 20/20" |
| Tim Seibles |
"A Funky Meditation" |
| Ed Pavlic |
"Three Things Teena Marie Has to Do with
What Seems Like Vermont's One and Only Blacktop
Road" |
| Jericho Brown |
"All That Crawls beneath Me" |
| Overton Loyd |
"BounceMobile" |
| Ronald P. "Stozo the Clown" Edwards |
"Chim Chim" |