African Voices (Archives) - Fall/Winter 2002

In honor of African Voices' 33rd Anniversary, we are proud to release access to our back issues and archives! Enjoy reading a special issue guest edited by renowned author/poet Quincy Troupe (Miles & Me) published in 2002!

The sold-out Fall/Winter 2002 issue features Amiri Baraka's probing poem on 9/11 entitled "Somebody Blew Up America" and more than 30+ powerful poems by such revered writers as Sterling D. Plumpp, Lucille Clifton, Ishmael Reed, Jayne Cortez, Elizabeth Alexander and Honorée FanonneJeffers. Notable works-in-progress and short stories by Jeffery Lenard Allen, Mirlande Jean-Gilles and Ekundayo Bandele give you a treasure of inspiring rich stories to savor. Front Cover Artist: Lezley Saar. Back Cover Artist: Miss Mildred. Inside pages include art by Cuban artist Jose Bedia and Haitian artist Gelsey Verna.

African Voices, a leading nonprofit literary magazine, is releasing the first of several popular issues from our archives.

Born July 22, 1939, in St. Louis, Missouri, Quincy Troupe is an awarding-winning author of 12 volumes of poetry, three children’s books, and six non-fiction works. In 2010 Troupe received the American Book Award for Lifetime Literary Achievement.

Print copies are available for order ($12, plus shipping) via Mixam: AV Fall/Winter 2002.