"What We Love arose from enacting a conversation, by bringing more voices to the table, where we are creating a home with good bones and impeccable intentions, so Aster(ix) can share writing that moves us. We revisited and have revised the Aster(ix) vision to embrace the known and unknown; the courageous and the unpredictable; the real and the unreal; to wrestle with the possible and the impossible; jaguar's chesty roar; magic; what's censored and omitted; love and devotion. What has come forth, through conversations and connections, reading, rereading and arguing was directed by...

Aster(ix) Journal presents, Best of Kweli, a compilation of 20 of the best prose and poems published in Kweli Journal (an online-only journal of experimental African American literature) in the past seven years. This issue of Aster(ix) is edited by Laura Pegram and Angie Cruz, with the help of University of Pittsburgh Writing MFA students. Featuring Brit Bennett, Ariana Brown, Cortney Lamar Charleston, Geimy ColOn, Naima Coster, Ansel Elkins, Anita Felicelli, Marko Fong, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Raven Jackson, Hope Johnson, Cynthia Manick, Cecca...