Issue No. 21

Spring 2020

 

 

Visual Art

Public Pretender
Alana Roth

We the People
Erika Glass

Afro-Hip
Aja Dandridge

better bars, no one you'd know,
cell block u

C. R. Resetarits

Padre Nuestro, Ayudanos Por Favor
Israel Cedillo

Sound

Notes For If I Fade Away: Missing Me
Justin Rovillos Monson

Hole in the Bucket
Justin Hicks

Feel to Believe
Wazi Maret

Anne Oredeko Interviewed by
Nia Witherspoon

Anne Oredeko

Video Art

Butterflies
 Christine Sloan Stoddard

Praxis
solYchaski

Editor’s Letter
Dr. Nia O. Witherspoon

Documented Performance

Peculiar Patriot
Liza Jesse Peterson

Untitled America
Kyle Abraham/Ailey

The Graduates
The Graduates

Altar Call
Troy Anthony

Five Haiku Plus Two
Geneva Phillips
PEN America Feature

Going Forward With Gus
Sterling Cunio
PEN America Feature

Grace Notes
Matthew Mendoza and James “Moe” Torres
PEN America Feature

Never 2 Late
John Benjamin
PEN America Feature

Literature

A List of Violations
Nicole Shawan Junior

Tragedy’s Silver Year
Sterling Cunio

Jailhouse Dating
Joe Vanderford 

We All Fall Down
J. D. Mathes II

Loud Enough to Be Heard:
On Speaking Up For The Voiceless

D. R. Trumbo Sr.

VOICES IN THE PAST
PunkRockSpock ("Jeremy Wilson")

Stationary Famine
Eric Boyd

Jericho Trumpet
Alexis Bhagat

Poetry

Those Intricacies
Louise Waakaa’igan

A Discourse on Why Inmates Exit Prison Worse
Than When They Went In, The Self as a Contradiction,
My Lungs Imagine Themselves,
Apology, In Defeat, from Disfigured Hours

B. Batchelor

The Orange Shuffle, Time Is Easy,
Weight Is Heavy, Jail/Die/Millions

Tavarus Blackmon

The Resurrection of a Writer
Santonio D. Murff

Justice
Rachel Storm

I Am The Virus, You Can't Sing
William Myrl Smitherman