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Literary Arts

Easter Eve in Philadelphia 1963: For My Sisters by Bernardine (Dine) Watson

On the nightbefore the resurrection,four little girlsare seated aroundthe dining room tablea rainbow of chocolatesand twice as sweet. Sisters, they gather to performa family sacrament--turning...

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Literary Arts

Three Poems by Beth Brown Preston

Birth of the Blues Was it Miles Davis’ “Kinda Blue” bringing me home to you? Or the musical memories of our mutual histories?Scott Joplin and...

Literary Arts

The Monuments by Josh Young

The Monuments The monuments are goneGood riddance I sayTalk about losing a battleThey lost an entire war Cold cast iron facesof Lee, Jackson, and Jefferson Davis,Put...

Poetry

They Name Not Trauma by Robert Zackary

These poems are part of a special section of the Mid-Atlantic Review, Celebrating Black History, and selected by editors Khadijah Ali-Coleman, Carolivia Herron, and...