Editor’s Letter: Food Is Us, by Alice Randall

POINTS SOUTH

COVID Kitchen, by Crystal Wilkinson

The Umstead, by Julia Bainbridge

Pimento-cracy, by Cynthia R. Greenlee 

The Art of Being Eaten Alive, by Channing Gerard Joseph 

A Monumental Flavor, by Lokelani Alabanza 

After Apple Picking, by Mark Powell

Promise and Purpose, by Amanda Little

A Sustainable Call and Response, a poem by Caroline Randall Williams

A Weary Traveler in a Familiar Land, by Psyche Williams-Forson 

Nothing Can Dim the Light, by Donna Battle Pierce

Sisterfeast and the Manna of Afro-Carolina, by Michelle Lanier with Kali Grosvenor 

FEATURES

PEASANT FOOD
Notes from a life in restaurants
by Brad Johnson 

TARRY WITH ME
Reclaiming sweetness in an anti-Black world
by Ashanté M. Reese 

SIX POEMS
by Tarfia Faizullah

FLASHLIGHT
A story by J. Shores-Argüello

A MIRACULOUS ROOT
On sweet potato pie

Loving Something Enough, by Tiana Clark

Sweet Potato Pie, a story by Eugenia Collier

Nothing but Sweet Potato Pie, by Ayana Contreras

No Charge, by Tandy Wilson

Sweet Potato Chess and Meringue Jar-Lid Pies,
by Rebekah Turshen

Art by

Frank Frances, Jan Groover, Geoffrey Ellis, Jimmy James Greene, Caroline Randall Williams, Aarón Ramos, Najee Dorsey, Katrina d’Autremont, Carter/Reddy, Chandra McCormick, Danny Ghitis, Sharon Core, Xaviera Simmons, Jasmine Clarke, Celestia Morgan, Louis Fratino, Coreen Simpson, Jen Everett, Didier William, Yasmin Reshamwala, Sara Fox, Manik Raj Nakra, Hally Erickson, Milton Carter, Greg Breda, Marc Padeu, Alysia Macaulay

Cover: Photograph by Frank Frances, from the series Remember the South. Monograph available through Monolith Editions