Volume 18, Issue 3

Table of Contents

Dedication for Sterling Brown,
Non-Fiction by John Wilson

Backwacking, A Plea to the Senator,
Fiction by Ralph Ellison

Study & Experience, an Interview with
Ralph Ellison, Non-Fiction by Robert Stepto,
coauthored with Michael Harper

Elegies for Paradise Valley,
Poetry by Robert Hayden

A Sense of Story, Fiction by James Alan McPherson

Photographs, Art by Lawrence Sykes

Bristol; Made Connections; Crossing Lake Michigan;
Smoke, Poetry by Michael Harper

Intimate Things in Place, a conversation with Toni
Morrison, Non-Fiction by Robert Stepto

Siras Bowens of Sunbury, Georgia, a Tidewater
Artist in the Afro-American Visual Tradition,
Non-Fiction by Robert Farris Thompson

Africa, Slavery, and the Roots of Contemporary
Culture, Non-Fiction by Mary F. Berry and
John Blassingame

Paintings, Art by Richard Yarde

Richard Wright & Afro-American Literary Tradition,
Non-Fiction by Robert Stepto

The Blues Roots of Contemporary Afro-American
Poetry, Non-Fiction by Sherley A. Williams

A Music of the Streets,
Non-Fiction by Frederick Turner

Marko's: A Vegetarian Fantasy,
Drama by Kenneth Bernard

Someone Sweet Angel Child,
Poetry by Shirley A. Williams

Bryant's Ride, Fiction by Hilary Masters

Nantucket Oil Merchants and the American
Revolution, Non-Fiction by George Rogers Taylor

The Village; Collecting, Poetry by Richard Frost

montage, Cover Art by Romare Bearden with
portrait of Sterling Allen Brown by John Wilson

Richard Wright (etching),
Back Cover At by Richard Powell