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Image 1: Cookie and Bennie Brave Buff Bliz,
Colonel Sanders Helped.
Collage by Ishmael Reed and Tennessee Reed
Photo of Bennie and Cookie Reed by the late Thelma V. Reed, 1991
Image 2: Algeria, 2022 by Barbara Lowenstein
Image 3: Algeria, 2022 by Barbara Lowenstein
Image 4: Algeria, 2022 by Barbara Lowenstein
Image 5: Algeria, 2022 by Barbara Lowenstein
Image 6: Algeria, 2022 by Barbara Lowenstein
Image 7: Dorland Mountain Arts Colony, November 2022
by Tennessee Reed
Image 8: Dorland Mountain Arts Colony, November 2022
In This Issue by Publisher
I Love to Travel
But My ADHD, Sensory Processing Disorder
and Chronic Pain Get in the Way
Fred Was Feelin’ It” by Melba Boyd
Not A Theater but a Bus:
Reflections on the Kisii International Poetry Festival
by Karla Brundage
The Other House on the Hill in the Country,
Or the Legend of Hook Man Finger, Part III
by David Fishkind
Behind the Grey Rhino Part III by Vitin A. Cruz
Bennie and Cookie Reed Survive Buf’s Snow Storm,
Colonel Sanders Helped by Ishmael Reed and Bennie Reed
Ishmael Reed Interviews Alison Mills Newman
A Letter from Berlin:
What the Hell is McWhorter Doing in a Place Like This?
by P. Lewis
Excerpt from Poli Poli by Barbara Masakela
Vincent Writes to Theo from Grave to Grave by A.B. Spellman
Vincent & The Storm in Ramsgate by A.B. Spellman
New Year’s Eve by Gyasi Burks-Abbott
A Review of “Sources of Light, Donovan Nelson Portraits”
by Molly Guillermo
Virus Watch Part VII
by Ishmael Reed and Dr. Michael LeNoir