What a year.
This duo aptly marks Black Poetry Review’s first anniversary as a free journal. Chekwube Danladi’s “U (Surrender What Subdues)” features a curtain embellished with “U” that starkly contrasts with her lines — from “– The Greatest Idea Yet –” — “though the african doesn’t need much for money the african has / communal priorities the african can even be made to work for free,” and refracts with, “your constant grabbing.” This issue’s cover artist was selected via the first Center for Afrofuturist Studies sourcing with BPR, and the artist was funded by the University of Iowa’s Department of African American Studies.
Sincerely,
Editor
Emily Spencer