Table of Contents
Prose
“Crossing the Bridge: African-Based Spiritualities’
Articulation of the Marvelous Real” by Patricia Coloma Peñate 5
“The Lyrical and Phonetic Liberation of Gender
and Race: Rock Music in Joyce Carol Oates ‘Where
Are You Going, Where Have You Been?’ and Alice
Walker’s ‘Nineteen Fifty-Five’” Part 1 by Martin Moling 22
Poetry
“Peace”
“Seasonal Affective” by Yoshira Marbel 3
“Ol’ Too Short”
“She Waits”
“Family Matures a Son…net”
“Afrikah-O-Afrikah” by T.L. Orange, Jr. 45
“Miles”
“Soul Topographer”
“Detroit Is; Or, an Explanation for
those Who Need It” by John G. Rodwan, Jr. 49
“Carolina Shout”
“Midnight Blues & Hot Chocolate” by Jacquese Armstrong 52
“Blue on Blue”
“Spring Concert-Canceled!”
“Those Daring Young Men”
“In the Buttermilk” by Mary McLaughlin Slechta 55
“She Said it Was the Hashish” by Michael D. Amitin 60
“Fourth Street” by David Michael Joseph 61
“Sally ‘Too Tight’ Jackson”
“Deacon Auntrell Smith” by Margie Shaheed 63
“Southern Original Sin”
“Shame”
“Eighthworld” by Jeremy Andrew DeFatta 65
“And the Thing That Really Gets Me Is (for
Rihanna, so her name will be said with love)” by Brigit Kelly Young 69
Fiction
“Sunday Best” by Lori D. Johnson 71
“Pornography: A Modern Day Fairytale” by Anthony Green 80
“Crossing” by Frank A. Gladden 93
Contributors’ Bios 99