Obsidian: Literature in the African Diaspora
Volume 10, Number 2/Volume 11 Number 1
Fall/Winter 2009-Spring/Summer 2010

Aforebo: A Harvest of North Carolina Writers of African Descent

Featuring: A Tribute to the Carolina African American Writers' Collective

Table of Contents

Sheila Smith McKoy

Notes from the Editor: "Writing North Carolina: A Homegirl's Homage" (excerpt)

Lenard D. Moore

"Writing North Carolina: Notes of a Native Son" (excerpt)

FICTION

Linda Beatrice Brown

"Off to New Bern" (excerpt)

Angela Belcher-Epps

Excerpts from Salt in in the Sugar Bowl:

"Sophia's Goodbye" (excerpt)

"Hunter's Finale" (excerpt)

Ariana Farquharson

"The Giants' Shoulders" (excerpt)

Tracie Fellers

"When the Stars Begin to Fall" (excerpt)

Brenda Flanagan

"Blue Waters are for Drowning" (excerpt)

Francesca Holloway

Excerpt from A Death in Harlem (excerpt)

Bridgette A. Lacy

"Sweetie" (excerpt)

Zelda Lockhart

Excerpts from Fifth Born II: The Hundreth Turtle: "Mississippi Cabin, First Christmas" (excerpt)

Makuchi

"Woman of the Lake" (excerpt)

Sharon Mervin

"The Invitation to Lunch" (excerpt)

Lenard D. Moore

"Thomas" (excerpt)

Netia T. Raye

Excerpt from Eve's Descendants: "Hindsight" (excerpt)

Sheila Smith McKoy

"Sanctuary" (excerpt)

CREATIVE NON-FICITON

Sandra Y. Govan

"Making Mama's Pie" (excerpt)

Joi Jackson

"Then the Morning Comes" (excerpt)

DRAMA

Rudy Wallace

“The Honored Guest, Frederick Douglass at Home” (excerpt)

INTERVIEWS

Evie Shockley

"Lifting Veils: An Interview with Jaki Shelton Green" (excerpt)

L. Teresa Church

"On Being and Becoming a Writer: An Interview with Lenard D. Moore” (excerpt)

April C. Turner

"Reclaiming Home: An Emancipation Proclamation as Witnessed in the Art of TJ Reddy" (excerpt)

A TRIBUTE TO THE CAROLINA AFRICAN AMERICAN WRITERS' COLLECTIVE

A Harvest of Tongues: Carolina African American Writers' Collective (excerpt)

Roll Call: CAAWC (excerpt)

POETRY

Anjail Rashida Ahmad

"Sonny" (excerpt)

"turnabout" (excerpt)

Shirlette Ammons

"Mulatto Girl Buys the Bar a Round" (excerpt)

"The Scent of Fresh Lemon" (excerpt)

Angela Bickham

"Lot's Wife" (excerpt)

"Clarissa" (excerpt)

Earl S. Braggs

"Stage" (excerpt)

"Them" (excerpt)

Beverly Fields Burnette

"Tracking Lines in the Land of Nazca" (excerpt)

"An Unrelenting Meal" (excerpt)

L. Teresa Church

"The Moment at Hand" (excerpt)

"Golden Whistles for Emmett Till" (excerpt)

"Woman-Child" (excerpt)

celeste doaks

"Black Barbie" (excerpt)

"Black Lotus" (excerpt)

Jaki Shelton Green

"For My Brother" (excerpt)

"glory games" (excerpt)

"blues for wounded laughter" (excerpt)

Brian Jackson

"sons of the dark" (excerpt)

"Melancholy Mood" (excerpt)

Chantal James

"Skyscrapers, and Everythang" (excerpt)

"Ghazali" (excerpt)

Diane Judge

"Aftermath" (excerpt)

"Back Story" (excerpt)

Lenard D. Moore

"Interrogation of Harriet Tubman" (excerpt)

"A Reminiscing Daddy" (excerpt)

"Bop: Coaching Poets" (excerpt)

"Ascension: John Coltrane" (excerpt)

Maiisha L. Moore

"Mai Bahamian Haiku" (excerpt)

Grace Ocasio

"Color Like This" (excerpt)

"Deeper Than Skin" (excerpt)

"Man Thin As a Shoe" (excerpt)

"Walking Sepia" (excerpt)

Tanure Ojaide

"The Cows of Mt. San Angelo" (excerpt)

"Narratives of Gold" (excerpt)

"If It Were Not for You" (excerpt)

Glenis Redmond

"Nostalgia" (excerpt)

"Ocean" (excerpt)

Nancy Mebane Shakir

"Kwansaba for Spring" (excerpt)

"Carolina May" (excerpt)

"Picnic Basket" (excerpt)

Crystal Simone Smith

"Vitals" (excerpt)

"Numb" (excerpt)

"Monday's Letter" (excerpt)

Sheila Smith McKoy

"Sweetness" (excerpt)

"Pollination: Outskirts of Raleigh, NC 1968" (excerpt)

"Assemblage" (excerpt)

"Third Time's the Charm" (excerpt)

Darrell "SCIPOET" Stover

"Brother Haints" (excerpt)

"North Star Blues" (excerpt)

"Rattle Grass at Fort Fisher" (excerpt)

Gina Streaty

"Black Light: To MLK, Jr." (excerpt)

"Sojourner: Daughter of Eden" (excerpt)

Carole Boston Weatherford

"Tuskegee: Takeoff" (excerpt)

"Yoakum's Hokum" (excerpt)

Carolyn Beard Whitlow

"A Mule and 40 Acres Suite" (excerpt)

L. Lamar Wilson

"Touch" (excerpt)

"I Am Black and Comely" (excerpt)

"You Da Only Man I Ever Loves, Daddy: Lot's Daughters" (excerpt)

Gideon Young

"Bare Feet" (excerpt)

"ATL" (excerpt)

REVIEWS

Remica Bingham-Risher

"Conditions of the Sale: A Review of Camille Dungy's Suck on the Marrow" (excerpt)

Celeste Doaks

"Matching Skin: A Spoonfulla Southern Sass” (excerpt)

The Audacious Natural Word: A Review of Camille Dungy's Black Nature" (excerpt)

Irene Honeycutt

"Hollerin' from This Shack by Grade C. Ocasio" (excerpt)

Tom Lisk

"Image as Act: A Review of Lenard D. Moore's A Temple Looming" (excerpt)