Table of Contents
Introduction
Marcia Davis Introduction to the Sterling A. Brown Tribute Issue
Contents
Grace Cavalieri Interview with Sterling A. Brown
Donna Denizé Dig, Find, Make Way
Christina Daub At the One Step
Bernardine (Dine) Watson The Ballad of Alice Hortense
Elizabeth Kirkpatrick-Vrenios Two Poems
Pamela Murray Winters Shake, Alabama
Jacqueline Jules Difference Between Heaven and Hell
Doritt Carroll Things My Mother Taught Me
E. Ethelbert Miller A Sterling of a Man
Sarah Browning The Neighborhood, Changing
Emilio Iasiello Saxophone Lesson
Samuel Miranda Three Lessons Lawrence Wheatley Dropped on Spanish Joe
Brian Gilmore sterling brown’s house, washington dc 1990’s
This special issue features poems inspired by the life and work of DC’s first Poet Laureate. With a 1977 audio interview with Brown, conducted by Grace Cavalieri, and an introduction by Marcia Davis about living in Brown’s former house, and photos by Margaret Corum.