Foreword: The Army of the Wronged, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor Introduction, Diana Marie Delgado I. Time Rules this Empire: Where Clocks Stand Still  : .OR. THIS MALUS THING NEVER TO BE CONFUSED WITH JUSTICE, Randall Horton ALL THE TV SHOWS ARE ABOUT COPS, Hanif Abdurraqib TRAP noun. \ˈtrap\, Sin á Tes Souhaits Marriage, Rhionna Anderson WHICH IS IT?, Christopher Malec BLOOD HISTORY, Reginald Dwayne Betts Architect 1, Vanessa Angélica Villarreal Lost, Sandra Jackson Under Correction I, Natalie Diaz Behind the Wall, Christina Pernini II. Be Careful How You Speak about Rainbows: Beauty & Grace A.G.A.M., Eduardo Martinez Bloom, Catherine LaFleur Eclogue: A Field Guide and Cure, Marcelo Hernandez Castillo Scattered like Yellow Feathers, Kennedy Gisege En las primeras décadas del nuevo siglo, Raquel Salas Rivera In the first decades of the new century, Raquel Salas Rivera Knees Next to Their Wallets, Tongo Eisen-Martin D.O.C. “department of castration,” Pat Ewok III. The Bill is Past Due: The Hustle 10 Toes Down, Sin á Tes Souhaits If I were a Boy, Leeann Parker The Ballad of Stagolee, or Variation on a Theme by Sterling A. Brown with a Slight Nod to Etheridge Knight, John Murillo  Political Arithmetic, Brian Batchelor  black, body, Candace Williams ALL THE TV SHOWS ARE ABOUT COPS, Hanif Abdurraquib Everything I Know About Horses, Kenneth Nadeau IV: American Inferno: Inside the Cell Free, Leeann Parker american inferno, Evie Shockley ORDER’S UP, Christopher Malec FLASHBACK TO THE CELL, Randall Horton Devour , Catherine LaFleur Cellfish, SHE>i Break from Madness, Kennedy A. Gisege cinderblock calendars, Eduardo Martinez Under Correction II, Natalie Diaz ONLY ONE CLOCK, Patricia Smith V. What Is Caged Is Also Kept from Us: The People The First Day, Vicki Hicks BUT THE PHONE RINGS SOMETIMES, Patricia Smith What is Caged is Also Kept From Us, Ada Limón When Every Word is a Name, Reginald Dwayne Betts Reasons, Jessica Hill Sometimes I Wonder if God Really Fuck With Me Like That, Sin á Tes Souhaits can’t unsee, Evie Shockley Identity of a Prisoner, Cody Bruce My Father the Sahib, James Pearl Gustavo Guerra, Vacillating Click!, Sarah Lynn Maatsch Ghazal to Open Cages, Angel Nafis VI. The Nakedness Dark Demands: Surveillance and Shapeshifting Architect 3, Vanessa Angélica Villarreal Pages Thirteen to Twenty-One from The Ferguson Report: An Erasure, Nicole Sealey Brutality, Marina Bueno Under Correction III, Natalie Diaz Sonnet Triptych, Marcelo Hernandez Castillo  La promiscuidad tan indeseable, Roque Raquel Salas Rivera  Such undesirable promiscuity, Roque Raquel Salas Rivera  VII. Like A Hammer Across the Page: The Poor, Friendless & Black Black Boy with Cow, A Still Life, Nikky Finney Notes Acknowledgments Biographies