Issue 160
Summer & Fall 2021
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TriQuarterly expresses immense gratitude to guest editors Luther Hughes, Tara Stringfellow, Andre Perry, and Spring Ulmer for compiling these selections by Black writers and artists.
Fiction Editor: Tara Stringfellow
Nonfiction Editor: Andre Perry
Poetry Editor: Luther Hughes
Film Editor: Spring Ulmer
Faculty Advisor: Susan Harris
Director of Planning: Reginald Gibbons
Copy Editor: Lys Ann Weiss
Media Architect: Ken Panko
Technical Advisors: Rodolfo Vieira, Gerard Panganiban, Garrett Gassensmith
Supporting Editors: Sarah Minor, Vanessa Chan, Jennifer Companik,Erin Branning Keogh, Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya, Emily Mirengoff, Starr Davis, Daniel Fliegel, Joshua Bohnsack, Aram Mrjoian
Staff: Adrienne Rozells, Amanda Vitale, April Yee, Ashton Carlile, Audrey Fierberg, Bonnie Etherington, Cecilia Rabess, Corey Miller, Dane Hamann, Elijah Patten, Ellen Hainen, Emma Fuchs, Erica Hughes, Erika Carey, Freda Love Smith, Gillian Barth, Grace Musante, Hillary Pelan, Ivis Whitright, Jameka Williams, Jonathan Jones, Laura Humble, Laura Joyce-Hubbard, Liz Howey, Marcella Mencotti, Megan Sullivan, Michele Popadich, Miranda Garbaciak, ML Chan, Myra Thompson, Natalie Rose Richardson, Nimra Chohan, Pascale Bishop, Patrick Bernhard, Prince Bush, Rebecca van Laer, Rishee Batra, Salwa Halloway, Susan Lerner
Image from Flee
Freefall
NOTE: On March 26, 2018, Jennifer Hart drove herself, her wife, Sarah, and their six adopted Black children off of a Pacific coast cliff in Mendocino, CA, after nearly a decade of documented abuse allegations. Devonte Hart, the 15-year old pictured in this viral photo, is the only child whose body has not been found. All personas are fictionalized.
After the photograph (Jen Hart persona)
after Ai
Any tiny sliver of hope
these kids had
at a normal life is gone
gone going gone. At first,