Introduction: Profit and loss / Valerie Boyd --
The quarantine album: Liner notes / Deesha Philyaw --
Haircut, May 2020 in Decatur, GA / Kamilah Aisha Moon --
Just like now / Pearl Cleage --
Not allowed / Tayari Jones --
Poem beginning in the market as a meditation on hope and fear / Sharan Strange --
Build back a body / Destiny O. Birdsong --
Feasting on bread and dry bones / Shay Youngblood --
Spring mix ; Memorial Day 2021 / Opal Moore --
Pandemics and portals: Listening that breaks us open / Daniel B. Coleman --
Who to tell? / Ida Harris --
Haiku ; Evidence / E. Ethelbert Miller --
False dawn: A Zuihitsu / Khadijah Queen --
Joyride / Karen Good Marable --
How to make a tea cake ; Burden Hill Apothecary & Babalu-Aye prepare stinging nettle tea / L. Lamar Wilson --
The purpose of a house / Emily Bernard --
Lockdown prayer / Honorée Fanonne Jeffers --
Out there, nobody can hear you scream / Latria Graham --
Racism is terrible. Blackness is not / Imani Perry --
Mine / B. Brian Foster --
There is a daughter ; "I may not get there with you" / Alice Walker --
Hello, goodnight / Kamille D. Whittaker --
The women who clean / Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor --
Sky study / Alexis Pauline Gumbs --
A survivor looks back / Lolis Eric Elie --
Iron and brass / Rosalind Bentley --
To brim with wholeness / Jasmin Pittman Morrell --
November 7, 2020 / Samaa Abrurraqib --
What we owe and are owed / Kiese Laymon --
Get well slow / Josina Guess --
Whosoever will, come on in / Imani E. Wilson --
Another quarantine blues / Kamilah Aisha Moon.
