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POETRY AND PROSE​



I Believe in Forever
Alice Lovelace

Show Them Who You Are!
Ayanna Sloan

Sounders For Abdul Rahman
Olumide Ted Wilson

The Candidate
Hzal Anubewei 

Free the Land Man for Chokwe Lumumba
C. Leigh McInnis 

Cocoa Man
Jacqueline Gordon

Eternity
Janice Liddell

Supper
Tamara J.Madison

That Black Kind of Love 
RaShell Smith Spears

Yes He Did (for Obama)
C. Leigh McInnis

Kwansaba Tribute to Eugene Redmond
Charlois Lumpkin

Know No Fear
Charlie Braxton

This America
Michael Simanga

Red Summer Sun: Chicago 1919
Eric Maxie

Limpopo
Robert Anthony Gibbons

Brick by Brick 
Dee Allen

Kettle Talk
Tony Mitchelson 

Tomahawk Poem 
Alice Lovelace

Resurrection 
Janice Liddell

i can hear him praying 
Jacques Armstrong

​Things to shout about 'Pastor'  
Bill Marable

juju man
fabian m. thomas

change the joke (for my father)
Opal Moore
​
Of Ghost and Old Men
Gary Johnston

When Stones Talk
Minnie Collins

the self-taught genius (for Thornton Dial, Sr.)
Robert Anthony Gibbons

Trilogy
Bill Marable

High Cotton
David Mills

The Boys I Knew
RaShell Smith Spears

World History
Michael Simanga

Bullet Holes for T-Byrd 
Felton Eaddy
​
Dirge for Ahmed
Rashidah Ismail

At Last, Atlas
Tamara J. Madison

being a man
Bonface Isaboke Nyamweya

Ask and Ye Shall Receive
Olumide Ted Wilson

night trane
Jacquese Armstrong

Night Refrain for Bilal Sunni Ali
Malkia M'Buzi Moore   

Be Boppin' do whopping' hip hoppin' 
Kenneth Zakee

Let's Celebrate 
Christian Myrick

FOOTSTEPS
Hzal Anubewei
 


 









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  • ISSUE #4 CELEBRATING BLACK MEN
  • Mission and Content
  • POETRY AND PROSE
  • Photography Celebrating Black Men - ICONS AND ANCESTORS - SUSAN J. ROSS
  • ESSAYS SHORT STORIES AND ​LOVE LETTERS
  • BIOGRAPHIES
  • About US
  • SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
  • ISSUE #3 CELEBRATING BLACK CULTURE
  • Mission and Content
  • About US
  • POETRY AND PROSE
  • BLACK MUSIC PHOTO ESSAY
  • ESSAYS ARTICLES AND FICTION
  • VISUAL ART GALLERY
  • BIOGRAPHIES
  • SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
  • Support Merge Literary Magazine
  • ISSUE #2 CELEBRATING BLACK WOMEN
  • FEATURED WRITERS AND ARTISTS
  • MERGE LITERARY MAGAZINE PRINT EDITION
  • Mission and Content
  • About US
  • POETRY
  • ESSAYS ARTICLES AND FICTION
  • Multimedia Art Review
  • PHOTOGRAPHY CELEBRATING BLACK WOMEN
  • ARTIST SPOTLIGHT
  • WRITERS AND ARTISTS BIOS
  • SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
  • ISSUE #1 POLITICAL AFFAIRS AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
    • Mission and Content
    • About US
    • POETRY
    • PROSE
    • ART ILLUSTRATION
    • ESSAYS AND PLAY
    • MULTI-MEDIA QUILT REVIEW
    • WRITERS AND ARTISTS BIOS
    • SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
    • Support Merge Literary Magazine
  • ESSAYS SHORT STORIES AND ​LOVE LETTERS