IT'S YOUR MUG ANNIVERSARY ISSUE Volume 10:3, Summer 2009 Guest Editor: Toni Asante Lightfoot Introduction by Holly Bass   Table of Contents Eric Antonio Frank and His Little Anoks Holly Bass the political landscape: change Black Broadway California barricades Toni Blackman dinner conversations is this love global warming excerpts from Inner-Course Jane Alberdeston Coralin For Black Girls Who Don't Know Portorican Anthem River Silk: A Song for Maria Joel Dias-Porter Night Train Still Life The Empress of High Desire A Solo for LaSon Twain Dooley Out Loud Thomas Sayers Ellis [The Wrong Time of Day to Shoot Color] Brian Gilmore the tonight show bronx war Monica A. Hand Everything Must Change Melatonin: Notes on the Black President Reuben Jackson East Barre Untitled Poem Dreaming of Buyouts Brandon D. Johnson this is not insomnia starry cloth A. Van Jordan from Thought Clouds Obama Carolyn Joyner Swollen Plaits and Stiff Ponytails Red, White and Bleak Dehejia Maat Love Spell Hero-Wins Ernesto Mercer The Beg Lisa Pegram children and old men The Unsaid After Dinner Housecleaning Mirror Image Venus Thrash She Give Me She Bowl Angel Approval Elegy for the Living Patrick Washington October 31 2005 Big Mr. Fantastic