“whitethorn project: flattened whitethorn bouquet study no. 5,”
Leigh Ann Beavers, collage, relief print, watercolor.
Nonfiction
guest edited by
DW McKinney
What is Home?: Shenandoah Essayists Eulogize and Celebrate Places of Belonging
America’s Incrementation of Negro Equality
Fiction
Nonfiction
Translations
Contemporary Arabic Poetry in Contemporary Translation
[The horizon came, carrying in its hands]
What we left behind down one road returned by another
The way of houses
[glint of water on the river’s skin]
[suddenly my friend]
The Eyes of Words (1970)
Build Your Palaces (1973)
[Forty-four years to learn]
[In the ledger buried in my breast]
Comics
guest edited by
Rachelle Cruz
A Song or a Warning: Shenandoah’s Comic Artists Contemplate Survival
So Much Good
Meredith Hobbs Coons
Alligator Gut: A Representation of Survival with Papers, Polyethylene, and Residual Ink
Poetry
A Grimoire: Poems in Pursuit of Transformation
Dear Moses Grandy…Love, the Great Dismal Swamp (1930)
Mandala of the Pile of Papers on the Dining Room Table
Study Finds
Motherhood: A Map
Peire Vidal
To visit the country of shadows
Bock Rottom
People say I look cute in my purple bike helmet and I believe them
Jesus Is the Reason
Assembled Audience
Cantaloupe
Letter to My Friend Robert
It Was Our First Great Sorrow
The Best Things in Life
Of Mistletoe
Of Wilde Marjerome
Do Not Fail to Yield
Frost Heaves
Questions About Bisexuals #4
How I Will Teach My Daughter to Mop
Dispellations: A Prayer
Dispellations: Reverb
Dispellations: Curated Ephemera
Conversation
Today we dive into an ocean—
bellies full of fruit blessings & minds still
on fire from a story Ma told us about a Black girl
in Harlem who could fly like a bird.
—Nadia Alexis, “Cantaloupe”
