POETRY BIRMINGHAM
Literary Journal

I S S U E 8.5

Perhaps descriptions are ghostly shrouds. In this special issue, Birmingham, Alabama, is approached from many angles—interior and exterior—by an array of distinct and brilliant writers, and they create together an imaginary city, alive with thick air, bristling with real accents, friendships, vultures, tornados, mothers, births, and heat…

—Editorial, PBLJ8.5, Gabrielle Bates, Ashley M. Jones, Alina Stefanescu

C O N T E N T S

Editors

Gabrielle Bates, Ashley M. Jones, Alina Stefanescu

Prose

Ashley M. Jones’s ‘A Haiku for Sister Sonia Sanchez’ • Alina Stefanescu’s ‘“It is the light which owns nothing”—18 ways of looking at Birmingham’ • Harmony Holiday’s ‘Black Angels in Birmingham: on the Poetics of Sun Ra and Angela Davis’