Preface by Shauna M. Morgan Introduction by Bianca Lynne Spriggs & Jeremy Paden ROOT Paul C. Taylor, Call Me Out My Name Forrest Gray Yerman, 'Going Up' with the Affrilachian Poets Frank X Walker, Affrilachia Kelly Norman Ellis, Affrilachian MixTape I: Turntablism Gerald L. Coleman, Bless Your Heart Nikky Finney, Brown Country Ricardo Nazario y Colón, Tujcalusa Crystal Wilkinson, O Tobacco Ellen Hagan, Grits Shayla Lawson, The Kentucky-ist Joy Priest, In the City Makalani Bandele, fleur-de-lis, On Aging Bianca Lynne Spriggs, Praisesong for a Mountain Crystal Dawn Good, Black Diamonds Jeremy Paden, The Hills We Grew On LIMB Jeremy Paden, On Whiteness Ricardo Nazario y Colón, Of Jíbaros and Hillbillies Shanna L. Smith, Rooted Kelly Norman Ellis, Raised by Women Remica Bingham-Risher, The Negro Travelers' Green Book: 1957, Portrait of Mother's Kitchen Randall Horton, Ace of Spades: September 15, 1973 Bernard Clay, the good couch, learning how to use motherfucker Frank X Walker, Burying Albatross Ellen Hagan, American Arabic, Irish, Italian Abecedarian w/ Blue(d)grass & Bourbon(d) Influences Rane Arroyo, Even Tricksters Get the Blues Shayla Lawson, Pantone 130C Danni Quintos, Pond's White Beauty, Portrait of My Dad Through a Tent Window Joy Priest, Nightstick Stephanie Pruitt, The Dark Room Keith S. Wilson, Robatto Mulatto TONGUE Marta Maria Miranda-Straub, Social Justice Prayer Asha French, Mama Outsider: Reminder Notes to a Dancing Girl Kamilah Aisha Moon, Initiation Mitchell L.H. Douglas, 127 Notebooks Amanda Johnston, Answer the Call Stephanie Pruitt, A Study in Sound and Silence A.

H. Jerriod Avant, We Were Being Detained Dorian Hairston, For Drunk Mike, Manifesto for Black Baseball Players Rane Arroyo, The Piñata Boy Jude McPherson, I Hate Crowds or Yippy Ki Yay Murica, FUCK YO COUCH!!!! Mitchell L.H. Douglas, Is it Wrong? Norman Jordan, One eyed critics, Where Do People in Dreams Come From? Amanda Johnston, Another Morning Blessed Be Keith S. Wilson, Augury Bianca Lynne Spriggs, Black Bone Bios Reprint Credits.