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The Future Imagined Differently

The Future Imagined Differently

Volume III, Issue IV – October 2015

Editor: Patricia Spears Jones

Assistant Editors: Abdul Ali and Dawson Bancroft-Short

Cover Image: Denise Milan, Brasilis Island, 2014 from Mist of the Earth, Wilson Center, Brazil Institute

Managing Editor: Michael McDermott

Layout Editor: Sarah C. Fritz

Publisher: Black Earth Institute, Black Earth, Wisconsin. 2015

Patricia Spears Jones
- Editor’s Note

Denise Milan
- Mist of the Earth

Section 1: Fearless Like Song

Myra Sklarew
- Imagine a Village

S. Mami Watu and Storme Webber
- The Blessing: A Kahlo Story (beginnings)

Erika T. Wurth
- Around my neck

Guillermo Filice Castro
- Beso Americano

Laynie Browne
- The Unfounded

Leah Umansky
- The Love Orphans

Myra Sklarew
- The World to Come

Purvi Shah
- You birth a mythology in red

Section 2: The Retina Cascading

Verneda Lights
- View Through the Eyes of a Ship

Margo Berdeshevsky
- In Custody of Eyes

Shelagh Patterson
- How Small Hate Must Feel when
- Looking at Love in the mirror

Grace Cavalieri
- In Every Dream an Orphan Builds a Home

Martin Willitts, Jr.
- Pause Button

Beverly Naidus
- We Almost Didn’t Make It: Stories from Our Descendants
- Biezi’s Treasure

Petra Kuppers
- Moon Botany

William Nixon
- Malcolm X Confronts Heaven

Kate Schapira
- Three Alternate Histories

Shelagh Patterson
- The Real on Hope

Jason Kao Hwang
- The Challenge: Tiananmen Square

Section 3: The Mountain Was Alive

Tsaurah Litzky
- Imagining a Better World

Margo Berdeshevsky
- But Very Soon

Jeff Fearnside
- Too Often We Think

Elizabeth Cunningham
- Remembering the Future

Cecilia Llompart
- Ars Poetica

Sean Prentiss
- Wilderness Language

J.M. Leija
- A Few Miles from Here

Grace Cavalieri
- To the Beauty of This Place

Sharon Mesmer
- Why Would an Al Jazeera Journalist
- Want to Talk to Me About Stress?

Pamela Uschuk
- Spring Runoff

William Bishop
- The Humane Planet

Laura Jew
- Wherever We May Land

Ras Moshe
- Live at Constitution Marsh

Section 4: The Concept of Inhabitance

Janet Goldner
- Zig-Zags

Scott Hightower
- From Two Vats of Absence

fayemi shakur
- Haikus 4 Sundiata

Patricia Clark
- Sword Fern

William Nixon
- Democracy

Dike Okoro
- Instilling the faith in our way of life

Robbie McCauley
- Jazz ‘n Class

Shelagh Patterson
- A Shady Promise

Linda Rodriguez
- Through The Body

Guillermo Filice Castro
- In The Future When We Return to the Woods

Tony Medina
- Brother’s Keeper

Marcella Durand
- Poetry that “counts”

Section 5: The Fire in Our Souls

Marcella Durand
- From “60 interpretations of luminous citizens and color”
- (alexandrine) (3 poem series)

Lauren Camp
- What Yesterday, What Tomorrow

Susan Tu
- Celestial Soul

Jeff Fearnside
- Black Friday Morning

Joan Canby
- The week after the human beings departed Earth poem

Patricia Monaghan
- Dawn at Brigit’s Well

Tai Allen
- What Memories Bring

Christina Olivares
- Letter

Veronica Golos
- Can We Even Dream A Possible Future?

William Bancroft-Short
- GR8 Times (music)

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