Spring 2022: Vol. 50, Issue 2

Spring 2022: Vol. 50, Issue 2

CONTENTS

Editor’s Note by Jason Kyle Howard

BELL HOOKS: A REMEMBRANCE

Crystal Wilkinson
I Am a Writer Because of bell hooks

Qrescent Mali Mason
On Naming and Lessons Learned

Darnell L. Moore
In Remembrance of bell hooks: On Being Human

Gloria Steinem
The Captain of All She Surveyed

Paul Gilroy
On bell and Gloria

Silas House
Elegy for a Genius

Wendell Berry
Shared Allegiance

Dr. Linda Strong-Leek
Love is an Action

FICTION

Leah Brennan Renberg
Everyone Living the Dream

CREATIVE NONFICTION

Caroline McTeer
Blue Ridge Bobby

Elaine Neil Orr
Birds in War

POETRY

Shannon St. Armand
Wildflowers

Marissa P. Clark
Marco Polo

Rita Mookerjee
Half Ode to the Rope Swing I Never Climbed
A Snake Heart Can Slide Up and Down the Length of Its Body
Origins of Vanity

Jeremy Halinen
Nocturnal Bondage

Maud Welch
Cave Hill Cemetery

INTERVIEW

Jocelyn Nicole Johnson by Monic Ductan

BOOK REVIEWS

Julie Hagy
Voice Lessons by Karen Salyer McElmurray