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Jacqueline Johnson

Shaping Destiny

Editors’ Notes » Richard Cambridge, Jacqueline Johnson, Pamela Uschuk, Michael McDermott

    • Editors’ Note: Prose — Editors' Note

Shaping Destiny

Editors’ Notes » Ann Fisher-Wirth & Jacqueline Johnson

    • Editors’ Note: Poetry — Editors' Note

Strange Wests

Myth-making & The Archive » Jacqueline Johnson

    • Prayer for a New Time — Poetry

On Rivers

River Crossings » Jacqueline Johnson / Cathy Fussell

    • To Follow a Curve in the River: Interview with Cathy Fussell — Interview

Center of Gravity

Poesis » Jacqueline Johnson

    • Blues Woman Elegy — Poetry
    • Tree Steward in the Stuy — Poetry

Navigations: A Place for Peace

Flourishing: Still we plant, insist we will grow » Jacqueline Johnson

    • The Ruse of Duplicity: Ruminations on African Symbols Doubling in American Quilts — Essay

When We Are Lost / How We Are Found

Home » Jacqueline Johnson

    • Mind of My Mind — Poetry
    • African Woodwind — Poetry
    • Wild Life — Poetry

Geographies of Justice

In the Hollows » Jacqueline Johnson

    • Ode to Iyansa — Poetry

Works of Resistance, Resilience

Introduction » Jacqueline Johnson, Ifeona Fulani & Vida James

    • Editors Preface —

Infinite Country

North: Truth » Jacqueline Johnson

    • The Prairie Speaks — Poetry

Dignity as an Endangered Species

Preface » Jacqueline Johnson

    • The Missing — Visual Art

Dignity as an Endangered Species

Identity » Jacqueline Johnson

    • Alaketu Mother Tongue — Poem

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