Jonathan Chibuike Ukah

The vision of Sublimation is to promote speculative poetry and art. We want to give writers of genre poems a place to allow their voices to ring. Sublimation Annual is a collection of the best poetry and art from the previous volume and the finalists for the Sublimation Annual Contest. This book contains over 80 pages of outstanding works from thirty-seven contributors. Poetry Contributors Sharisa Aidukaitis, F. J. Bergmann, Harris Coverley, Tony Daly, Deborah L. Davitt, Megan Diedericks, Erin Jamieson, Jane Fitzgerald, Robert Frazier, M. Frost, Valerie Hunter, Stephanie Jones, Herb Kauderer, David C. Kopaska-Merkel, Özge Lena, Sandra J. Lindow, LindaAnn LoSchiavo, Julia Ludewig, Richard Magahiz, Vera Nekrasovsky, Kurt Newton, Bethany van Sterling, Lisa Timpf, Fendy S. Tulodo, DJ Tyrer, & Trevor Wright Art Contributors Denise Bossarte, Tytti Heikkinen, Katie Hughbanks, Janina Aza Karpinska, Amuri Morris, Camellia Paul, Edward Michael Supranowicz,Claudia Tong, Jordan Veres, & Jennifer Weigel

Jonathan Chibuike Ukah, a celebrated lyrical voice among the African Diaspora, reminds us how the present and future are molded from our origins. Love, grief, the marching of time and spiritual endurance weave their varying modal melodies into a single chorus, honoring the land, events, and people that have formed his life, while offering hope for what has yet to come. Ukah's lyricism invites reflection and meditation. Like "A" in the alphabet, every life-song has a starting point.