Volume 08 (2008)
Complete Issue
PMS 8 (Complete Issue)
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Fiction
Empty Vessel
Ada Udechukwu
Some Thing Blue
Tayari Jones
Easter Lilies in the West Room
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Bomani Jones
Deesha Philyaw
Saint Monkey
Jacinda Townsend
Non-Fiction
Interview with Natasha Trethewey
Remica L. Bingham
Dear Ms. Larsen, There's a Mirror Looking Back
Heidi W. Durrow
Uncle Moïse
Edwidge Danticat
The Spirits in My Mother's Head
Gina Athena Ulysse
From the Old Slave Shack
Trellie James Jeffers
Poems
Mrs. Tell's Daughters (Gelatin Silver Print, ca. 1910-1916, Herbert Collins)
Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon
Things I Carried Coming Into the World
Remica L. Bingham
Cleaning House
Remica L. Bingham
Multitudes
Allison Joseph
Theory of the Unheld
Yona Harvey
Ocean Song
Yona Harvey
How Quickly the Sun Comes
DeLana Dameron
Come On In My Kitchen, Bessie
Meta DuEwa Jones
Remembering Esopus
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Who Won't Inherit
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
To See the Minus
Evie Shockley
Child, Leaving
Cherise A. Pollard
Poor Translation
Camille Dungy
The Vandyck
Lynne Thompson
Ocean Voyager
Nehassaiu deGannes
One Fine Philadelphia Morning
Nehassaiu deGannes
November, 1941
Khadijah Queen
Note on a Number
Shannon Gibney
Philomela Teaches a Child to Sew
Raina J. León
Segregation, Forever
Nikky Finney
The Prophet of the Laundromat
Matilda Cox
Randy Crawford Sings "Knocking on Heaven's Door"
Patricia Spears Jones
Last Seen Wearing (Sylvia Plath)
Patricia Spears Jones
The Talk-Show Producer Keeps Calling (Sylvia Plath)
Patricia Spears Jones
An All-Purpose Product
Patricia Smith
Grief Requiem
Rachel Eliza Griffiths
Pecola Breedlove Gives Geraldine a Piece of Her Mind
Rachel Eliza Griffiths
"The Difference Between Dream and Reality"
Duriel E. Harris
Why You Won't Stop
Asha French
Dear Reader
Amber Flora Thomas
Postscript
Edwidge Danticat
Front Matter
PMS 8 (Front Matter)
PoemMemoirStory Staff
End Matter
PMS 8 (End Matter)
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