by Lucille Clifton

• At Last We Killed the Roaches
• cigarettes
• night vision
• sam
• my lost father
• daughters

by Malcolm London

• High School Training Ground

by Marcus Wicker

• To A White Friend Who Wonders Why I Don't Spend More Time Pontificating the N Word
• Self-Dialogue Staring at a Mirror
• The CEO of Happiness Speaks
• When faced with the statement "there are more black men in jail than college," I think Order of Operations

by Patricia Smith

• How Mamas Begin Sometimes (p1)
• Before Orphan Unearthed The Mirror (p4)
• Fixing On the Next Star (p5)
• June 25, 1955 (p14)

by Terrance Hayes

• A House is Not A Home (p29)
• A Plate of Bones (p13)
• New Folk (p12)
• Snow For Wallace Stevens

by Natasha Tretheway

• Genus Narcissus (p7)
• What The Body Can Say (p9)
• What Is Evidence (p11)
• Native Guard (p25)

by Ai

• The Inheritance
• Discipline (p24)

by Nina Simone

• Four Women

by Saul Williams

• Sha-Clack-Clack
• Black Stacey
• List of Demands (Reparations)