Last Call for Submissions, Poetry Issue, Journal of Pan African Studies

Last Call for Submissions:

Poetry Issue, Journal of Pan African Studies

Deadline November 15

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Marvin X, Guest Editor

jmarvinx@yahoo.com,

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Tentative Contents

Poetry Issue

Journal of Pan African Studies

Marvin X, Guest Editor

Itibari M. Zulu, Senior Editor

Special thanks:

Louis Reyes Rivera

Eugene Redmond

Bruce George

Gwendolyn Mitchell

Askia Toure

Rudolph Lewis

Amiri Baraka

Dedication to Jose Gancalves, Publisher/Editor, Journal of Black Poetry

List of contributors to JBP

Photo Essay of JBP Poets

Notes on the Poetry issue of Journal of Pan African Studies

A History of the JBP and publications during the 60s, compiled by Rudolph Lewis

A Forum in Response to Marvin X’s Poetic Mission, Rudolph Lewis

Mary Weems

Jerry Ward

Leigh McInnis

The Poetic Mission, Haki Madhubuti

The Poets

Amiri Baraka, Newark NJ

Kalamu ya Salaam, New Orleans

Kola Boof, Southern California

Louis Reyes Rivera, Brooklyn NY

Ayodele Nzingha, Oakland CA

Askia Toure, Boston MA

Marvin X, Berkeley CA

Neal Hall, MD, Philadelphia PA

Hettie V. Williams

Phavia Khujichagulia, Oakland CA

J. Vern Cromartie, Richmond CA

Jeannette Drake, Virginia

Dike Okoro, Chicago IL

Tracey Owens Patton, Wyoming

devorah major, San Francisco

Anthony Mays, Korea

Bruce George, New York City

Itibari M. Zulu, Palmdale CA

Renaldo Ricketts, San Francisco

Nandi Comer

Al Young, Berkeley CA

Ghasem Batamuntu, Europe

Mona Lisa Saloy, New Orleans

Susan Lively, East St. Louis IL

Eugene Redmond, East St. Louis IL

Fritz Pointer, Oakland CA

Gwendolyn Mitchell, Chicago IL

Felix Orisewike Sylvanus, Lagos, Nigeria

Tariq Shabazz, Newark NJ

Rudolph Lewis, Maryland

Kamaria Muntu, United Kingdom

L. E. Scott, Aotearoa, New Zealand

Chinwe Enemchukwu, Florida USA

Mabel Mnensa, South Africa

Kwan Booth, Oakland CA

Rodney D. Coates, East St. Louis IL

Ras Griot, Washington DC

Tureeda Mikell, Oakland CA

Ramal Lamar, Oakland CA

Everett Hoagland, New Bedford MA

Charles Curtis Blackwell, Oakland CA

JACQUELINE KIBACHA, Tanzania, East Africa

John Reynolds III, Washington DC

Gabriel Shapiro

Darlene Scott, Delaware MD

Jimmy Smith, Jr., Chicago IL

Sam Hamod, Princeton NJ

Opal Palmer Adisa, Oakland CA

Amy ”Aimstar” Andrieux, New York City

Lamont b. Steptoe, Philadelphia PA

Avotcja Jiltonilro, San Francisco CA

Tantra Zawadi, New York City

Anthony Spires, San Francisco

Benicia Blue, Chicago IL

Neil Callender, Boston MA

Tanure Ojaide, Nigeria

Pious Okoro, Chicago IL

Nicole Terez Dutton, Boston MA

Iris Tate

Kilola Maishya

Niyah X, Oakland CA

Adrienne N. Wartts, St. Louis MO

Tony Medina, Washington DC

Reviews, Views, News

Reviews

Kamaria Muntu, review of Askia Toure’s Mother Earth Responds: green poems & alternative visions

Views

Two poets on politics in Oakland: Ishmael Reed, Marvin X

Afro-Arab Dialogue on Col. Qaddafi’s Apology for Arab Slavery:

Kola Boof, Sam Hamod, Rudolph Lewis, Marvin X

A Pan African Dialogue on Cuba:

Dead Prez, Carlos Moore, North American African Intellectuals/activists, Pedro de la Hoz

Muslim American Literature as an emerging field,

Dr. Mohja Kahf

News

Chinua Achebe Wins Prize

Bay Area Writers Celebrate Baraka’s 75^th

Photo Essay by Kamau Amem Ra

News from East Boogie, Eugene Redmond

Letters to the Editor