Introduction: Profit and loss / Valerie Boyd -- Char / Jason Reynolds -- The quarantine album: Liner
... notes / Deesha Philyaw -- Haircut, May 2020 in Decatur, GA / Kamilah Aisha Moon -- Just like now / Pearl Cleage -- Not allowed / Tayari Jones -- Poem beginning in the market as a meditation on hope and fear / Sharan Strange -- Build back a body / Destiny O. Birdsong -- Feasting on bread and dry bones / Shay Youngblood -- Spring mix ; Memorial Day 2021 / Opal Moore -- Pandemics and portals: Listening that breaks us open / Daniel B. Coleman -- Who to tell? / Ida Harris -- Haiku ; Evidence / E. Ethelbert Miller -- False dawn: A Zuihitsu / Khadijah Queen -- Joyride / Karen Good Marable -- How to make a tea cake ; Burden Hill Apothecary & Babalu-Aye prepare stinging nettle tea / L. Lamar Wilson -- The purpose of a house / Emily Bernard -- Lockdown prayer / Honoree Fanonne Jeffers -- Out there, nobody can hear you scream / Latria Graham -- Racism is terrible. Blackness is not / Imani Perry -- Mine / B. Brian Foster -- There is a daughter ; "I may not get there with you" / Alice Walker -- Hello, goodnight / Kamille D. Whittaker -- The women who clean / Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor -- Sky study / Alexis Pauline Gumbs -- A survivor looks back / Lolis Eric Elie -- Iron and brass / Rosalind Bentley -- To brim with wholeness / Jasmin Pittman Morrell -- November 7, 2020 / Samaa Abdurraqib -- What we owe and are owed / Kiese Laymon -- Get well slow / Josina Guess -- Whosoever will, come on in / Imani E. Wilson -- Another quarantine blues / Kamilah Aisha Moon. Read More