Vol. 38 No. Summer (1986)

Cottonwood 38-39: Contemporary Black Writers: Celebrating 125 Years of Kansas Statehood features

Interview with Gwendolyn Brooks (Eugene Kraft)

Interview with Samuel R. Delany (Lloyd Hemenway)

Autobiography by Frank Marshall Davis

Essays by Stanley E. Banks, Richard Barksdale, Gerald Early, and John Edgar Tidwell

Fiction by Richard Perry and Sheila Roberts

Poetry by Stanley E. Banks, Phyllis Becker, L. Cousins, Rita Dove, Thomas Glave, Jr. Lea Hopkins, Terri L. Jewell, Herbert Woodward Martin, Elinor Meiskey, May Miller, Wanda C. Outlaw, Gordon Parks, L. Poole, Philip Royster,  Martha M. Vertreace, Michael S. Weaver, and Alfred L. Woods

Reviews of Michelle T. Clinton's High Blood/Pressure (Sally McNall), Nathaniel Mackey's Bedouin Hornbook (George F. Wedge) and Luke's Accidental Grace, Linda Brown Bragg's Rainbow Roun Mah Shoulder, Michael S. Weaver's Water Song, and Steppingstones (Shelle Rosenfeld)

Photography and Graphics by Roadell Hickell and John Newman