CONTENTS:

Sarah / Tina McElroy Ansa -- Looking for home / Doris Jean Austin -- My man Bovanne / Toni Cade Bambara -- Mondongo / Amiri Baraka -- Spilled salt / Barbara Neely -- My soul is a witness / Don Belton -- Johnnieruth / Becky Birtha -- The Chaneysville incident / David Bradley -- I was here but I disappeared / Wesley Brown -- Wild seed / Octavia Butler -- Muz and the sphere of memory / Xam Wilson Cartiér -- Emma / Carolyn Cole -- Lonnie's cousin / Wanda Coleman -- The life you live (may not be your own) / J. California Cooper -- Upward bound / Steven Corbin -- Stars in my pocket like grains of sand / Samuel R. Delaney -- Love story black / William Demby -- The boy with beer / Melvin Dixon -- Vibraphone / Rita Dove -- In the shadow of the peacock / Grace Edwards-Yearwood -- Platitudes / Trey Ellis -- Suder / Percival L. Everett -- De Mojo blues / Arthur Flowers -- I heard the doctor speak / Sandra Hollin Flowers -- Tomorrow / Bill Williams Forde -- In my father's house / Ernest Gaines -- A woman's place / Marita Golden -- The vampire who drinks gospel music / Peter Harris -- Snapshots of grace / Safiya Henderson-Holmes -- Surviving Christmas / Kristin Hunter --

Treemont stone / Angela Jackson -- China / Charles Johnson -- Eva's man / Gayl Jones -- Homesick blues / William Melvin Kelley -- A visitation of spirits / Randall Kenan -- Lush life / John McCluskey -- Sister Detroit / Colleen McElroy -- From Djbot Baghostus's run / Nathaniel Mackey -- Ma'dear / Terry McMillan -- A loaf of bread / James Alan McPherson -- Such was the season / Clarence Major -- Praisesong for the widow / Paule Marshall -- The upper room / Mary Monroe -- Mama day / Gloria Naylor -- Family matters / Richard Perry -- Sweet evening breeze / Darryl Pinckney -- Hoodoo / Connie Porter -- The terrible threes / Ishmael Reed -- Before echo / Fatima Shaik -- Betsey Brown / Ntozake Shange -- A feast of fools / Ellease Southerland -- Social work / Barbara Summers -- Judgment / Cliff Thompson -- The abortion / Alice Walker -- Fever / John Edgar Wideman -- Sissie / John A. Williams -- Seduction by light / Al Young.