Obsidian III: Literature in the African Diaspora
Volume 4, Number 1
Spring/Summer, 2002

Letter from the Editor: Joyce Pettis

Poetry

Richard Wollman
Rest

Lydia Melvin
Chattanooga Times: July 24, 1963
They remind me I am hopeless
Don’s Oak Street Market

Krista Franklin
The Scary Thing
Hang Time
Messages from the Dead

Tyler Elliott
Stalemate

Mendi Lewis Obadike
Blue: Things We Know
Something Burning
Salivation/Quiddity
What I Had to Have

Lisa Rhodes
Upon Remembering that I Wore a White Fur Coat When I Was a Child

Carolyn Beard Whitlow
Sinkin’
Brick House

Sterling Plumpp
Guitar Man: Five Men/Five Instruments, One Blues
PoMoTongue

Fiction

Arlene McKanic
The Tiger

Pearl Boothe Williams
The Night the Klansmen Came

Essays

Michael Antonucci
Trane Time: The Geo-poetic Frequencies of Michael S. Harper

David Ikard
“So Much of What We Know Ain’t So ”: The Other Gender in Toni Cade
Bambara’s The Salt Eaters

Reginald Watson
The Changing Face of Biraciality

Book Review

Joyce Pettis
Conversations with Margaret Walker

Contributors

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