“This issue is beautiful.”

                                                        —Toni Morrison

This issue features poetry by Sapphire, Hal Sirowitz, Fay Chang, Julie Ezelle Patton, Lois Ellaine Griffith, Gavin Moses; photography by Lloyd McNeill and Gerard H. Gaskin; art by Faith Ringgold and Chitra Ganesh; and interviews with violinist Regina Carter, choreographer Bill T. Jones, and avant-garde composer Elliot Sharp.