The Fire Inside II Anthology
Zora’s Den’s second anthology is here! Fifty-seven contributors, over seventy offerings of fiction, poetry, and memoir. Beautiful work from the heart.
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(cover artwork by Jewel Ham, "whew, chile (enough)”)
The Contributors
Rae Chesny “When Zora Rises”
L. Renée. “rewombing at the bottom of the atlantic,” “A Ride in Brooklyn” and “Becoming”
J. Marie Darden “Dusk or Morning? for the ancestors"
NitaJade “shame(d)”
Raquel Brown “I come from”
K. Zauditu-Selassie “At the End of Daybreak,” “Keep Your Head to the Sky”
Rashida James-Saadiya “I saw you once in a prayer. Some call them dreams”
Landis Lain “The Eyes of the Beauty Beholder,” and “Dead King Furniture”
Nicole Guillen “You Showed Me Love”
L Kersey "Farewell to Rose"
Jada Anderson “Ode to Zora”
D. Trinidad Hanks “Renegade Tongues,” and “Alligator”
Linda Joy Burke “Untitled”
Imani Wisdom “God, Tell Me Why”
Jasmine Green “Thrift”
Tonya Melendez Gonzalez “There won’t be no Tea Cake here” and “Prayer for a woman claiming herself”
Sheila Dugan “Last Supper”
Denise R. Ervin “Numbers”
Tichaona Chinyelu “Amaranth Abstract”
Charlotte Watson Sherman “The Sacrifice (for Toni Morrison)
Taryn Jones “Burning Hands”
Casey Richardson “Give Me My Bread So I Can Feed My Children”
Tonya Johnson “On The Linguistic Anomalies of International Students at American Universities”
Misty Sol “Freedom Seeds”
Connie Patton “Plantation Vacation” and “Home”
Janel Cloyd “Speak So You Can Speak Again: The Dangers of Womanly Silence”
Kim Brandon “Why We Don’t Like Our Hair Wet”
Leisha Winley “How They Raise Us”
Lorna Skyers. “A Man and A Woman”
darlene scott “dare” and “Woman at The Well”
Michele L. Simms-Burton “On Seeing Self: Céline Alvarez Baa”
Keesha Ha “Tears from a Goddess”
Shampale Fenessa “Hush”
Chenise Lytrelle “Death of Uncelebrated Black and Brown Girls”
Deidre Gantt “Living (for Phyllis Hyman)”
Tonya Abari “A Most Sacred Space”
Yvonne McBride “Haiku for George & Breonna & Ahmaud ~ In the words of the Ancestors
Angela Gilbert “Death of a Black Man”
Yinka Olu “In This Black Skin,” “The Laundry Girl” and “At The Table”
Charlene Faison “A River Runs Through Me”
Stephanie J. Gates “Killing a Part of Myself”
Jessica McGinnis “Pyre”
Dana Cole Moulden “Barbara”
Atania Brathwaite “This is My Religion”
Claire Dorsey “Breakthrough”
Bridget Edwards “She Touched Herself” and “You’re the Fire, For the Poet ‘Hunter’ "
Khadijah Z. Ali-Coleman “The Summoning of Black Joy,” “The Color of Friendship” and “Artful Prayer”
Adina Ferguson “Conky’s Clam Dip”
S. Davina Small “8:8:2020 (2:45 am)”
Latonia-Valincia Moss “Questioning Love”
Cierra Lacks “Waiting Lotus”
Bobbi Rush “Girlfriend”
Porscha Simmons “Folks Like Me Be Crazy”
Angela Jackson-Brown “Sitting with the Dead”
Nikita C. Anderson "Suitcase"
Yeabsira Mehari "Camouflage"
Julia Jordan-Zachery "Contained"