Volume 18, Issue 4

Table of Contents

Chant of Saints: A Gathering of
Afro-American Literature, Art &
Scholarship, Non-Fiction by Edited
by Michael S. Harper and Robert B. Stepto

Packwood's Sermon by Firelight,
Fiction by Leon Forrest

Training for the Eye; For an Old Teacher;
The Wall; Crumbgiving, Poetry by Henry Braun

"If He Changed My Name": an Interview
with Leon Forrest, Non-Fiction by Maria Mootry

Names; Astronauts; Zinnias; A Letter from
Phillis Wheatley from "The Snow Lamp",
Poetry by Robert Hayden

In My Father's House, Fiction by Ernest Gaines

Uplift from a Park Tower, Poetry by Michael Harper

The Art of Romare Bearden,
Non-Fiction by Ralph Ellison

Odysseus, collages by Romare Bearden

from Almeyda, Fiction by Gayl Jones

Gayle Jones: An Interview,
Non-Fiction by Michael Harper

Love's Dozen, Poetry by Jay Wright

Covenant of Timelessness and Time:
Robert Hayden's Angle of Ascent,
Non-Fiction by Wilburn Williams

The Advancement of Women in Giscard
d'Estaing's Advanced Liberal Society,
Non-Fiction by Gordon Shenton

Toward a World Black Literature Community,
Non-Fiction by Melvin Dixon

The Wrestler Considers His Heritage,
Poetry by Ron Slate

Late Coltrane , Fiction by Kimberly W. Benston

An Image of Africa,
Non-Fiction by Chinua Achebe

from The Schooner, Flight,
Poetry by Derek Walcott

The Singer in the Song: Autobiography &
Time in The Odyssey, Non-Fiction by Roger J. Porter

Ballad of the Moon, The Moon, The Unfaithful Wife,
Poetry by Federico García Lorca,
Translated by Meg Bogin

The Special Relationship: Britian Through American
Eyes, Non-Fiction by A.S. Eisenstadt

The Sea Nymph, Cover Art by Romare Bearden

Romare Bearden (photo), by Niki Ekstsrom