Issue 160

Summer & Fall 2021

TriQuarterly expresses immense gratitude to guest editors Luther Hughes, Tara Stringfellow, Andre Perry, and Spring Ulmer for compiling these selections by Black writers and artists.

Fiction Editor: Tara Stringfellow
Nonfiction Editor: Andre Perry
Poetry Editor: Luther Hughes
Film Editor: Spring Ulmer
Faculty Advisor: Susan Harris
Director of Planning: Reginald Gibbons
Copy Editor: Lys Ann Weiss
Media Architect: Ken Panko
Technical Advisors: Rodolfo Vieira, Gerard Panganiban, Garrett Gassensmith
Supporting Editors: Sarah Minor, Vanessa Chan, Jennifer Companik,Erin Branning Keogh, Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya, Emily Mirengoff, Starr Davis, Daniel Fliegel, Joshua Bohnsack, Aram Mrjoian

Staff: Adrienne Rozells, Amanda Vitale, April Yee, Ashton Carlile, Audrey Fierberg, Bonnie Etherington, Cecilia Rabess, Corey Miller, Dane Hamann, Elijah Patten, Ellen Hainen, Emma Fuchs, Erica Hughes, Erika Carey, Freda Love Smith, Gillian Barth, Grace Musante, Hillary Pelan, Ivis Whitright, Jameka Williams, Jonathan Jones, Laura Humble, Laura Joyce-Hubbard, Liz Howey, Marcella Mencotti, Megan Sullivan, Michele Popadich, Miranda Garbaciak, ML Chan, Myra Thompson, Natalie Rose Richardson, Nimra Chohan, Pascale Bishop, Patrick Bernhard, Prince Bush, Rebecca van Laer, Rishee Batra, Salwa Halloway, Susan Lerner

Image from Flee

Cornelius Eady 6/15/21 Cornelius Eady 6/15/21

Our New Old Blues

Calvin Walds 6/15/21 Calvin Walds 6/15/21

Flee

Patrick Wachira 6/15/21 Patrick Wachira 6/15/21

Thoughts of a returner

A.T. McWilliams 6/15/21 A.T. McWilliams 6/15/21

American Math

Spring Ulmer 6/15/21 Spring Ulmer 6/15/21

An Introduction to Video Essays

…what I think is most importantly carried in Black art and in Black music is a kind of radical, disruptive social energy that…gives us a way of imagining how we might live otherwise. – Fred Moten

Andre Perry 6/15/21 Andre Perry 6/15/21

An Introduction to Creative Nonfiction

This isn't the Black issue of TriQuarterly. Instead, it is the beginning of an intentional practice by the editorial staff to represent myriad aesthetics from Black literary voices.