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"In this follow-up volume in the Black Fire—This Time series, over seventy-five poets and writers come together on the ongoing theme of ""Black is Beautiful, Black is Powerful, Black is Home."" Works ranging from poetry, fiction, essays, and drama cover a wide range of Black literature. This ""continuum"" of writing, as coined by Volume 1 editor Kim McMillon, brings together legends of the Black Arts era with contemporary writers in the tradition. This edition includes a hallmark work from the Black Arts era, We Own the Night by playwright and one of the last living legends Jimmy Garrett. Volume 2 of Black Fire—This Time will educate and inspire the next generation."

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Derrick Harriell is director of the African American Studies Program and Ottilie Schillig Associate Professor of English and African American Studies at the University of Mississippi. His previous collections of poems include Stripper in Wonderland, Cotton, and Ropes, winner of the 2014 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Poetry Book Award. Kofi Antwi is a writer of poetry, nonfiction, and fiction. He is a graduate of St. Joseph’s College MFA creative writing program, where he teaches English. Born in Brooklyn and raised in Staten Island by parents of Ghanaian descent, Antwi’s poetry has been published by ​​Writers Guild, Agbowo, Rise Up, Gumbo Media, Kalahari Review, Breadcrumbs, and Rigorous. Antwi has a forthcoming poetry chapbook with Kattywompus Press titled Tidal Wave.

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