Table of Contents
Letter from the Editor: Joyce Pettis
Poetry
Richard Wollman
RestLydia Melvin
Chattanooga Times: July 24, 1963
They remind me I am hopeless
Don’s Oak Street MarketKrista Franklin
The Scary Thing
Hang Time
Messages from the DeadTyler Elliott
StalemateMendi Lewis Obadike
Blue: Things We Know
Something Burning
Salivation/Quiddity
What I Had to HaveLisa Rhodes
Upon Remembering that I Wore a White Fur Coat When I Was a ChildCarolyn Beard Whitlow
Sinkin’
Brick HouseSterling Plumpp
Guitar Man: Five Men/Five Instruments, One Blues
PoMoTongue
Fiction
Arlene McKanic
The TigerPearl Boothe Williams
The Night the Klansmen Came
Essays
Michael Antonucci
Trane Time: The Geo-poetic Frequencies of Michael S. HarperDavid Ikard
“So Much of What We Know Ain’t So ”: The Other Gender in Toni Cade
Bambara’s The Salt EatersReginald Watson
The Changing Face of Biraciality
Book Review
Joyce Pettis
Conversations with Margaret Walker
Contributors