Salutation in search of / Patricia Smith -- Learning from the ghosts of the Civil War / Randall Kenan -- Mourning / Edwidge Danticat - Why the rebellion had to begin here / Su Hwang - On the complex flavors of Black joy / Michael Kleber-Digger - Letter from fault lines of Midwestern racism / Amaud Jamaul Johnson - I cannot stop: a response to the murder of George Floyd / Layli Long Soldier - Be safe out there (and other American delusions, rhetorical and otherwise) / Sofian Merabet - I hated that I had to see your face through plexiglass / Nyle Fort - Let these protests bring light to America / Daniel Peňa - Letters from a Seattle protest / Claudia Castro Luna - Finding justice in the streets / Pitchaya Sudbanthad - A riotous antodyne / Indigo Moot - A letter to Black America / Tracy K. Smith - Where is Black life lived? / Joshua Bennett -- On the endless mourning of the present / Honorée Fanonne Jeffers - On protests, laughter, and finding breath / Ali Black - Letters to Juneteeth / Gregory Pardlo - Letter from Burlington / Major Jackson - Black prayer / James Noél - Sense / Dawn Lundy Martin - Black motherhood in sleepless times / Idrissa Simmonds-Nastili - Letter to a mother who survived and thrived / Cynthia Tucker - "Maybe" (letter to a daughter who will wear two masks) Jasmon Drain - This'll hurt me more / Camille T. Dungy - Have I ever told you all the courts I've loved / Ross Gay - Letter from exile: finding home in a pandemic / Samiya Bashir - A generational uprising / Héctor Tobar - When the shadow is looming / Oscar Villalon - From plagues to protest to wildfires / Manuel Muňoz - Postcards from quarantined paradise / Craig Santos Perez - Three liberties: past, present, yet to come / Julia Alvarez - Letter to John Robert Lewis / Nikky Finney - Kamala Harris, mass incarceration, and me - Refuse fascism, at the ballet box and in the street / Lilly Wachowski - Why I'm getting out of the boiler room this election / Monica Youn - Voting Trump out is not enough / Keeang-Yamahatta Taylor - The fall of Trump: on presidents, dictators, and life after a regime / Francisco Goldman - Thunder song / Sasha LaPointe - On motherhood and ancestral resistance / Kirsten West Savali

"This kaleidoscopic portrait of an unprecedented time brings together some of our most treasured writers today--Edwidge Danticat, Layli Long Soldier, Monica Youn, Julia Alvarez, Reginald Dwayne Betts, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor--to give voice to the unthinkable grief and hopeful possibilities born in an era of revolution and change." --