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A Gathering Together: Literary Journal
past issues
interviews and features
about us
A Gathering Together: Literary Journal
past issues
interviews and features
about us
past issues
interviews and features
about us

baaba, wasn't that tomorrow?, 2023

Spring 2023

Flight The Editors

Stories
The Curious Case of the Dam-A-Rama  Malik Washington

Essay
Romare Bearden: Conjure, Continuation, and Art in the Practice of Life  Ava Tiye Kinsey

Poetry
⇝ / heavy: a burning haibun / untitled no. ∞ Shy-Zahir Moses
when we have to pretend your “Science” knows us/ portrait of a stranded god matthew omowale anthony
archival research/black citizen cosmos Leslie McIntosh
We give thanks  Alice Otieno
Dreams/Seeing sun Juliet Ezepue

Reviews
A Kind of Intimacy: On A Precise Tenderness Tina Zafreen Alam

A Gathering Together is a journal that resists the easy and often unsophisticated attempt to say profound things in the moment, without deep contemplation, or in the heat of discursive battle. Building upon John Birks “Dizzy” Gillespie’s words, we seek to build a place that cultivates and discusses improvised acts of taking ourselves from here to there. We publish works that simultaneously transcend and address the moment they speak from, works that will last beyond the creator’s last breath and still be relevant, and/or works that put the writer and reader in conversation with the intellectual thought of Ancestors of all kinds. In the end, we offer a gathering of works that endure and elevate us to a space of inquiry and move us toward resolution of not only the challenges that mark our lives but also those that can no longer be our realities.

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