Shauna M. Morgan

Preface

Bianca Lynne Spriggs & Jeremy Paden

Introduction

Root

Paul C. Taylor

Call Me Out My Name

Forrest Gray Yerman

‘Going Up’ with the Affrilachian Poets

Frank X Walker

Affrilachia

Kelly Norman Ellis

Affrilachian MixTape I: Turntablism

Gerald L. Coleman

Bless Your Heart

Nikky Finney

Brown Country

Ricardo Nazario y Colón

Tujcalusa

Crystal Wilkinson

O Tobacco

Ellen Hagan

Grits

Shayla Lawson

The Kentucky-ist

Joy Priest

In the City

Makalani Bandele

fleur-de-lis

On Aging

Bianca Lynne Spriggs

Praisesong for a Mountain

Crystal Dawn Good

Black Diamonds

Jeremy Paden

The Hills We Grew On

Limb

Jeremy Paden

On Whiteness

Ricardo Nazario y Colón

Of Jíbaros and Hillbillies

Shanna L. Smith

Rooted

Kelly Norman Ellis

Raised by Women

Remica Bingham-Risher

The Negro Travelers’ Green Book: 1957

Portrait of Mother’s Kitchen

Randall Horton

Ace of Spades: September 15, 1973

Bernard Clay

the good couch

learning how to use motherfucker

Frank X Walker

Burying Albatross

Ellen Hagan

American Arabic, Irish, Italian Abecedarian w/ Blue(d)grass & Bourbon(d) Influences

Rane Arroyo

Even Tricksters Get the Blues

Shayla Lawson

Pantone 130C

Danni Quintos

Pond’s White Beauty

Portrait of My Dad Through a Tent Window

Joy Priest

Nightstick

Stephanie Pruitt

The Dark Room

Keith S. Wilson

Robatto Mulatto

Tongue

Marta Maria Miranda-Straub

Social Justice Prayer

Asha French

Mama Outsider: Reminder Notes to a Dancing Girl

Kamilah Aisha Moon

Initiation

Mitchell L.H. Douglas

Notebooks

Amanda Johnston

Answer the Call

Stephanie Pruitt

A Study in Sound and Silence

A. H. Jerriod Avant

We Were Being Detained

Dorian Hairston

For Drunk Mike

Manifesto for Black Baseball Players

Rane Arroyo

The Piñata Boy

Jude McPherson

I Hate Crowds or Yippy Ki Yay Murica, FUCK YO COUCH!!!!

Mitchell L.H. Douglas

Is it Wrong?

Norman Jordan

One eyed critics

Where Do People in Dreams Come From?

Amanda Johnston

Another Morning Blessed Be

Keith S. Wilson

Augury

Bianca Lynne Spriggs

Black Bone

Bios

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