Photo by Sarah Blesener
NOTES TO SELF / Summer 2017

Mira Jacob’s Notes to Self

By Mira Jacob ,  Photography by Sarah Blesener
#VQRTRUESTORY / Fall 2017

Take ’Em Down

By James McWilliams ,  Photography by Julie Dermansky
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POETRY / Summer 2018

Reza’s Restaurant, Chicago, 1997

By Kaveh Akbar
CRITICISM / Summer 2018

Personal Terrors

By Maurice Carlos Ruffin
Illustration by Lauren Simkin Berke
MEMOIR / Fall 2018

Quick Feet

By Kiese Laymon ,  Illustrations by Lauren Simkin Berke
Illustration by Shawn Theodore
ESSAYS / Spring 2019

Survivor Files

By Mitchell S. Jackson ,  Illustration by Shawn Theodore
CRITICISM / Summer 2019

“Alone with America”

By Lisa Russ Spaar
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POETRY / Summer 2019

On the Piney Woods, Death, Bobby Frank Cherry, and Me

By Vievee Francis
POETRY / Winter 2019

Leah Gilliam, Sapphire and the Slave Girl, 1995, 18 mins. 20 secs.

By Anaïs Duplan
POETRY / Winter 2019

Tony Cokes, Black Celebration, 1988, 17 mins. 17 secs.

By Anaïs Duplan
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