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
Final Poem Ending in a Beginning
six children jump Double-Dutch in autumn
rain, and the ropes’ helix is a seventh seeing.
It opens and closes like an eye-
lid and through its quickfire lens the smallest
Final Poem for the Deer
Deer asleep on the side of the road. No, deer
dead there as always, preserved in the Book
of Symbols. Deer with its flies and uncanny
arrows in its sides like compass needles, or