Obsidian: Literature in the African Diaspora
Volume 4, Number 2
Fall/Winter, 2002-2003

Table of Contents

Note from the Editor: Joyce Pettis

Special Section: Nikky Finney

Kyle Thompson
The World is Round: A Conversation with Nikky Finney

Nikky Finney
The Girlfriend's Train
Sex
Memoir: "Chapter Three: The Bra"

Fiction

Roger Collins
The Long Way Home

Essay

L.H. Stallings
Re-reading Ann Allen Shockley through Queeer Queen B Eyes

Art

Eric McRay
Images

Poetry

Colleen J. McElroy
Moon Over Marakesh
Eartha Kitt Takes The Old Woman Shopping for Red Shoes
Bad Slam On Broadway

Christian Campbell
The Very Pursed Lips of (Mrs.) Vera Mackey
Shells for Sonia Sanchez

Ama Nyamekye
The Breakfast Funeral

Melissa Singleton
A New Girl Is Shown The Ropes
Two Women and The Once-A-Year Kiss

Theresa Mancevski
Yearbook Entry
Elizabeta's Niece
What I Did With Simic's Fly

Curtis Crisler
Mama don't take no mess
Robbing hoods

Kendra Hamilton
Liza, Dusk to Dark

John Stigall
Another Version As Told in the Tombs

Myronn Hardy
Jesse Garon Presley's Advice
The First Ghetto

nwenna kai
streets by default

Reginald Harris
Photographs of Summer: The 1970's
Ketchup Bottles, Table and Coat
Flash!
Bluetopia
Song for my Father

Mendi Lewis Obadike
Salivation/Quiddity

Book Review

Afaa Michael Weaver
Blues Victorious

Contributors