Spring 2007 Contributors

Flame

      Patricia Smith
       Interview by Cherryl Floyd-Miller

XTRA FILTHY SEX
LOOKING FOR BODIES
CHARACTER STUDY
THE BLOOD SONNETS
ALWAYS HUNGRY

Spark

     Remica L. Bingham

Aunt Jemima Meets Her Namesake in a Dream
Birth and Burden , Scotland Neck, North Carolina , 1922
Mercy Killing

How do you stop the hurt of needing to breathe?
In My Father’s House
Girls I Knew—Grenshaw, Chicago, Ill.

Domestic work
Introduction to Amistad in mixed company
Attempts at integration

Black Panthers at Heaven’s Gate
When Good Women Must Murder
  

Treehees
Meedans awnsuhndeh
Kehnstahlks
Mehmber
Rut

Blues Haiku for Big Maybelle

Big Mama's Final Hour 

THE SPELL IS BROKEN
FOLLOW

   K. Deneá Stewart-Shaheed

Conjure Love

   Rachel Eliza Griffiths