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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

Jillian M Rock, “windsandwaves,” 2024

Spring 2025

Tribute The Editors

Forum: Toni at Random
An Opening: On Toni at Random Jahaan Shaheed and Josh Myers
Black Books Were Her Business: Toni Morrison and Black Men Fiction Writers in Toni at Random Julia Mallory
Migration, Word Work, & Collectivism: On the Interdisciplinary Artist-Editorship of Toni at Random Constance Collier-Mercado
Canon-Making and Unmaking Josh Myers

Essay
Marvelous and Impossible Poetics: Silence, Kinship and Blood: Astrid Roemer’s Off White Tikkun Bambara

Short Story
Nomad Yasmine Grier

Visual Poetry
Une Lettre Si Courte/The Girl in Blue Fatou Sow

Poetry
for baba./for khaliifah williams. Kwadwo Alfajiri Shah
Icarus Boys/Something Like Unweaving/Father as Boy Needing/Conversations With God on His Children KeeShawn Murphy

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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