Focus 2000
Full Issue

Focus: the Literary Magazine of Spelman College, 2000

Jamila Zahra Wade
Spelman College
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Published 2000-05-01

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

N’ kenge Ayo Carter , Ode to My mama, writing, and sanity

Napoleon D. Wells , Koko (In a Woman)

Earl “We One” Strozier , The Balance Remains

Taneya Getliers , Untitled

William Corey Mccaskill , Sincerity for my X

Ayana Free , d’antan

Sojourner Ruth Marable , Oneside

Jamila Zalira Wade , haiku: prison voices

Miranda Baugh , Untitled

Benyka L. Mitchell , Petals

Nicole Eugene , Time Hasten to Me

Jamal L. Burt , Manifesto

Penny Wrenn , Untitled

Blair Hayes , From Shadows to Sunlight

N’kenge Ayo Carter, Midnight

Maurice Cherry, II, The Callow Heart

Nannie Reed, Untitled

Kali Polk-Matthews, Sweetie- pie

Tasha Keeble, 1920

Benyvette Robinson Ashburn, that First Moment

Nannie Reed, Memories of Smoke

Ayana Free, spiritual seduction

Penny Wrenn, Untitled

Kali Polk-Matthews, Celtic Nar or My High School Days (and Nights)

Jamila Zahra Wade, Listen Brother!

Latoya Henry, Alone

Gina Loring, These Foolish Things

Tasha Keeble, He said; She says

N’kenge Ayo Carter, Cleage, Sheftall, and Steinem inspired

Niccolo Illuminado , Inamorata

Kali Polk-Matthews , Tone Deaf

Maurice Cherry, II , Untitled

Andrea "Andei” N. Williams , Reincarnation

Earl "We One” Strozier , For Iya...

Qelsi Qualls , She

Ayana Free , The Man With a Face Like a Mask

Boni Floweis , you are forgiven

Christian Williams, The Rain Came

Taneya Gethers, Untitled

Penny Wrenn, Untitled

Miranda Baugh , Hiding Out from Love

Qelsi Qualls , Can I?

Benyka L. Mitchell , Hidden Talent