Special Cluster:
“Language of the Unheard”: Riot on the American Cultural Stage
Introduction by Susan Gilmore
Rapping Black Joy: Tate Kobang and the Baltimore Uprising
Emily Yoon Perez
Black Lives Matter in Henry Dumas’ “Riot or Revolt?”: The Past Is Prologue
Casarae L. Gibson
Reading Los Angeles’ Urban Uprisings: From Watts to Rodney King
Srimayee Basu
Thurz’s L.A. Riot and the Value of Riot Poetics
Kirsten Bartholomew Ortega
Fiction & Poetry
Chet’la Sebree: Ab Ovo (or, Eve’s Daughter)
Mistress of Hypermobility
Anachronistic Conversations: Sally & Chet’la
Knowledge
An Elaborate Non-Yoga Pose in Which You Realize You Were Not Made for this World
Marisa Crane: The Thimble Versus the Battleship
Karijini National Park
My Privilege
An Elegy for Jamel Myles
MLS Serial: Minotaur
Mara Rutherford
NeMLA Notes
On the 50th Annual Convention Theme: From the President
NeMLA at 50: From Area Directors and Caucus Representatives