Table of Contents
Adrienne Christian - Clothing and Fashion
George Higgins - Mr. Lyon, poem
Matthew J. Spireng - Slippers and Rubbers, poem
D. Gilson - Justin Boots, poem
Cornelius Eady - Easter Shoes, poem
L. Teresa Church - Spike Heel Shoes, poem
Latorial Faison - A shroud for mother's day, poem
Jaki Shelton Green - The Communion of White Dresses, poem
RC de Winter - New England Nun, poem
Sherri Wright - Private Dancer, poem
Crystal Simone Smith - A Case for Equal Melancholy, poem
Abby E. Murray - Words on White Feminism Disguised as a Backless Dress, poem
Teri Elam - High School Dancerettes at Halftime, poem
April Gibson - Neighborhood Watch, poem
Sandra Alcosser - Motherese, poem
Matt Hohner - Worn, poem
Jacquelyn Malone - Cinderella Village, poem
Maria Marziotti Gillan - Cheap, poem
Matthew Murrey - The Charm, poem
Major Jackson - Paper Dolls at the Met, poem
Amanda Holiday - Blackamoor, poem
Makalani Bandele - earl of harlem meets the high priest of bebop (alternate take), poem
Minal Hajratwala - Limnology of the Minor Goddesses, poem
Cyrus Cassells - I Met a Gladiator (Ben-Him), poem
Melodie Bolt - Corseted Soldier, poem
Mahnaz Badihian - Chador, poem
Gail Newman - Living with the Dead, poem
Marty Saunders - Late November, poem
Breauna L. Roach - The Dancing Shoes Find Your Feet Again, poem
Alice Friman - The Scarf, poem
Liz Ahl - My Father's Hat, poem
Frank X. Gaspar - Blues, poem
Tamika Thompson - Under the Crown, story
Mykelle Thompson-Graves - Nude, story
Claire Polders - Of Lace and Limitations, story
Thelma Zirkelbach - A Change of Clothes, essay
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Celisa Steele - Hole in the Center, poem
Celisa Steele - They Mend the Eave Outside My Office, Accidentally Trap a Starling, poem
Kevin Simmonds - Counterfeit, poem
Donald Platt - Flesh of Their Flesh, poem
Donald Platt - Goodbye Dance, poem
Samiah Haque - Reading Nizar Qabbani in Jeddah, poem
Samiah Haque - Every Soul Has Two Bodies, poem
Samiah Haque - There Are Places You Can Hold Your Head High, poem
Maurine Ogbaa - The Men in Her Life, story
Julia Anna Morrison - How to Turn Myself Off, poem
Julia Anna Morrison - Sleeping Apart, poem
Courtney Sender - To Do with the Body, story
Caitlin Hill - Consider the Sunflower, essay
Olákìtán Aládésuyì - Girl of my dreams, story
Lark Omura - education, poem
Lark Omura - The poet imagines her ancestors watching her smoke a joint, poem
Laura Post - To my mother, of the first time we met, poem
Cindy King - Your Mother Asks If You're Seeing Anyone and No Longer Means a Therapist, poem
Jen DeGregorio - Chains, poem
Laura Rashley - eidolon, poem
Laura Rashley - South Carolina, poem
Molly Bess Rector - For Violet, Who Wasn't, poem
Raymond Antrobus - For John T Williams of the Nuu-Chah-Nulth tribe, poem
Raymond Antrobus - Between the Woods, poem
Daniel Tobin - Bernard Weil, poem
Kathy Z. Price - Ragtime in the Day of Witches, poem
Pia Ghosh-Roy - There Are Always Two Deaths, story
Elizabeth Bevilacqua - Cycles, essay
Reviews
If the Girl Never Learns by Sue William Silverman, reviewed by Deborah Hauser
The Gallows Pole by Benjamin Myers, reviewed by Erin Britton
The Tradition by Jericho Brown, reviewed by Jordan Charlton