September 2023
Cover artist: Tré Sealswhat if poetry isn’t enuf?Ntozake Shange
watchu gonna do then?
- Ntozake Shange
- Zakaria Mohammed
- Brandon Shimoda
- Rachel Mennies
- Harryette Mullen
From this Issue
Poem
By Kara Krewer
Under which she pruned
the peach trees and a tiny gateway
opened in her spine. That pain
distilled there like a drop...
Poem
By Cathy Park Hong
mak is the touch
of the potter, the thumbprint
on clay
the unfinished warp of wood...
Poem
By Camille Rankine
a man I’ve never met tells me to open
like a flower but a flower cut
too soon won’t soften...
Table of Contents
Poems
- Charif Shanahan
- Kara Krewer
- Cathy Park Hong
- Camille Rankine
- Henri Cole
- Derrick Austin
- Wang Wei
- Susan Wan Dolling
- Zakaria Mohammed
- Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
- J. Estanislao Lopez
- Tim Seibles
- Miron Białoszewski
- Clare Cavanagh
- Aaron Smith
- Keetje Kuipers
- Ben Purkert
- Nicholas Goodly
- Grady Chambers
- Martín Espada
- Rachel Mennies
- Tomasz Różycki
- Mira Rosenthal
- Harryette Mullen
- Pablo Texón
- Will Howard
- Nirmal Verma
- Viplav Saini
- Brandon Shimoda
- Angie Macri
- Richard Blanco
MY NAME BACK TO ME: NTOZAKE SHANGE
- Imani Perry
- Ntozake Shange
CONTRIBUTORS
- Derrick Austin
- Miron Białoszewski
- Richard Blanco
- Clare Cavanagh
- Grady Chambers
- Henri Cole
- Susan Wan Dolling
- Martín Espada
- Nicholas Goodly
- Cathy Park Hong
- Will Howard
- Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
- Kara Krewer
- Keetje Kuipers
- J. Estanislao Lopez
- Angie Macri
- Rachel Mennies
- Zakaria Mohammed
- Harryette Mullen
- Imani Perry
- Ben Purkert
- Camille Rankine
- Mira Rosenthal
- Tomasz Różycki
- Viplav Saini
- Tim Seibles
- Charif Shanahan
- Ntozake Shange
- Brandon Shimoda
- Aaron Smith
- Pablo Texón
- Nirmal Verma
- Wang Wei
