Collector of me. My beauty / Justice Ameer -- Self portrait in a tanning bed / Rio Cortez -- Texture / Maya Washington -- Homage to my breasts (after Lucille Clifton) / Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie -- This body keeps the keys / Nikki Wallschlaeger -- You mean you don't weep at the nail salon? / Elizabeth Acevedo -- White Godiva melts in a mouthful of blood: prayer for my unborn daughter / Alysia Nicole Harris -- Ode to the hymen / Syreeta McFadden -- My afropuffs / Jamila Woods -- Magical negro #217: Diana Ross finishing a rib in Alabama, 1990s / Morgan Parker -- Why you cannot touch my hair / Eve L. Ewing.
I'm Black. Big Black bitch / Bianca Lynne Spriggs -- Exile / Diamond Sharp -- Ode to Fetty Wap (written after strip club) / Roya Marsh -- At H & M, when another black girls asks if I work here / Kemi Alabi -- Card B tells me about myself / Eboni Hogan -- Question and answer, or Pirate Jenny shit talks with her employer / Syreeta McFadden -- Meat / Comonghne Felix -- Micro / Britteney Black Rose Kapri.
Sharpening my oyster knife. Kingston, Jamaica, 3am, passa passa dance party / Idrissa Simmonds -- Outside my Harlem window / Lauren Whitehead -- A brief history of coconut oil / Crystal Valentine -- Supremacy / Adriana Brown -- The end of eating everything / Rio Cortez -- Sara Baartman and I negotiate visibility / Xandra Phillips -- Of thee, magical negroes, I sing / Syreeta McFadden -- Magical negro #607: Gladys Knight on the 200th episode of The Jeffersons / Morgan Parker -- For colored boys who considered gangbanging when being Black was too much / Britteney Black Rose Kapri -- What I mean when I say I'm sharpening my oyster knife / Eve L. Ewing.
Duty to fight. A brief life / Ariana Brown -- #Sayhername / Aja Monet -- Purgatory room / Diamond Sharp -- Patriarchy / Venessa Marco -- All the things that have not happened between us / Destiny O. Birdsong -- Mr. Hotep says #Black Lives Matter and he'd kill a dyke / Kemi Alabi -- Rememory / Ra Malika Imhotep -- If 2017 was a poem title / Mahogany L. Browne -- Magical negro #80: Brooklyn / Morgan Parker.
All the events that happen to you. What do it tell the white boy who asks me of my heritage / Natalie Rose Richardson -- Piece / Teri Ellen Cross Davis -- Sonnet (47) / Nikki Wallschlaeger -- No / Hiwot Adilow -- Alleged (erasure) / Candice Iloh -- Shadowboxin, session one / Destiny Hemphill -- Beautiful Black queen / Simone Savannah -- Divination / Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton -- Bye bye baby / Noname -- Offwhite / Venessa Marco -- The holy theatre / Alexis Smithers -- Pulling teeth and answers before dying / Ajanae Dawkins -- Dawn prayer call / Idrissa Simmonds -- Carnival Fire of '63 / Whitney Greenaway.
Wrong is not my name. N / Jamila Woods -- After God herself / Justice Ameer -- Cuero / Elizabeth Acevedo -- Self-portrait with the question of race / Safia Elhillo -- La negra takes Medusa to the hair salon / Elizabeth Acevedo -- Confession #1 / Yesenia Montilla -- Love on Flatbush Avenue / Angel Nafis -- Love and water / Thiahera Nurse -- Look / Simone Savannah -- Destiny, Chile / Thabisile Griffin -- My daughter prays for a brother, and gets one / Brittany Rogers.
A new person. Sister was the wolf / Aracelis Girmay -- Mami came to this country as a nanny / Elizabeth Acevedo -- Birth, mark / Aja Monet -- Blue magic / Niki Herd -- Chick / Athena Dixon -- Self-portrait with dirty hair / Safia Elhillo -- A sestina for a black girl who does not know how to braid hair / Raych Jacksion -- Wading (ode to an almost first kiss) / Alexa Patrick -- Poet imagines creating Full House in Rockwell Gardens / Ciara Miller -- Boxes of Andromeda / Athena Dixon -- Amerikkkana / Toluwanimi Obiwole -- Halcyon kitchen / Kiandra Jimenez -- Girdle / Naomi Extra -- My favorite things / Naomi Extra -- Roseart / Lin-Z -- I beat my sistas ass foreal this time / Kz -- This poem for Sugar Hill, Harlem / JP Howard -- Ode to Walt Whitman ... the housing project / Rachelle M. Parker.
Forever trying. Flight / Idrissa Simmonds -- What women are made of / Bianca Lynne Spriggs -- French Guiana/enigmatic womyn blues / Toluwanimi Obiwole -- Old wives' tales / Safia Elhillo -- Vespers / Idrissa Simmonds -- Poem that wrote me into beast in order to be read / Marwa Helal -- Abandon / Hiwot Adilow -- Parcel map for the county assessor / Candace G. Wiley -- 400 heat / Destiny O. Birdsong -- Black produce / Fayise Abrahim -- Built for disaster / Mahogany L. Browne -- Root song for daughter / Nina Angela Mercer.
Something has tried to kill me and has failed. What begets what begets / Rio Cortez -- For songs and contests / Nabila Lovelace -- Serena / Porsha O. -- Ghazal for becoming your own country / Angel Nafis -- 79th be the catwalk / E'mon Lauren -- Some girls survive on their sorcery alone / Thiahera Nurse -- It's a miracle / Yesenia Montilla -- Creation story after Safia Elhillo / Nonae.
Jubilee. We are all God's / Mahogany L. Browne -- Waves / Jamila Woods -- Sway / Ebony Stewart -- Invocation / Ariana Brown -- The etymology of "CHUUCH!" / E'mon Lauren -- The cut up / Candace G. Wiley.
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