In this Issue
Callaloo, the premier journal of literature, art, and culture of the African Diaspora, publishes original work by and about writers and visual artists of African descent worldwide. Recently ranked 13th in Every Writer's Resource's Top 50 Literary Magazines, Callaloo offers an engaging mixture of fiction, poetry, critical articles, interviews, drama, and visual art. Frequent annotated bibliographies, special issues dedicated to major writers and literary, social, and cultural themes, and full-color, original artwork and photography are some of the features of this highly acclaimed international showcase of arts and letters.
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Volume 39, Number 1, Winter 2016Editorial Board
Editor
Charles Henry Rowell
Managing Editor
Kelley A. Robbins
Production Coordinator
Hannah Waugh McMurry
Production Editor
Kathryn B. Karasek
Associate Editors
Joan Anim-Addo
Radiclani Clytus
Fred D'Aguiar
Vievee Francis
Janice N. Harrington
Ravi Howard
John McCluskey, Jr.
Maaza Mengiste
Gregory Pardlo
Marlon B. Ross
Salamishah Tillet
Jacinda Townsend
Phillip B. Williams
Dagmawi Woubshet
Assistants to the Editor
Abbey Carpenter
Darienne Dickey
Brenda Marichalar
Contributing & Advisory Editors
Geri Augusto
Anthony Bogues
LeRonn P. Brooks
Jackson Brown
George Elliot Clarke
Soyica Colbert
Maryse Conde
Edwidge Danticat
Howard Dodson
Rita Dove
Bretn Hayes Edwards
Percival Everett
Ernest J. Gaines
Vanessa Guignery
Edward Hirsch
Jamaica Kincaid
Yusef Komunyakaa
Stacy Parker Le Melle
Valerie Loichot
Sebastian Matthews
Keith Mitchell
Valerie Cassel Oliver
Carl Phillips
Hermine Pinson
Robert F. Reid-Pharr
Tracy K. Smith
Darlene R. Taylor
Natasha Trethewey
Stephen Tuck
Derek Walcott
Melvin White, JD.
John Edgar Wideman
Michelle Joan Wilkinson
David Wright
Kevin Young