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Illustration by Shannon Wright

From 2016: Remembering Prince.

Nonfiction

Group Therapy: Remembering Prince, a writers’ roundtable

The Beautiful Ones, by Sheila Squillante

Birthday Suit, by Alia Volz

Try to Imagine What Silence Looks Like, by James Tate Hill

Trickster, by M. Sophia Newman

Seventeen in ‘84, by Kathy Curto

Elegy, by Amorak Huey

Could Have Sworn it was Judgement Day, by William Bradley

Backing Up, by Tony Mancus

What It Is, by Heather McClean

Liner Notes, by Nicholas Ward

Nothing Compares 2 U, by Abby Reed Meyer

Flash

Prince Called Me Up Onstage at the Pontiac Silverdome, by Khadijah Queen

Because They Was Purple, by Tameka Cage Conley

Poetry

Freak, by Gabrielle Freeman

When the Cicadas Were Out of Their Fucking Minds, by Matthew Lippman

Two Poems After Prince, by E. Kristin Anderson

And This Brings Us Back to the Pharaoh…, by BJ Love

Chant for a New Poet Generation, by Allison Joseph

Let’s Go Crazy, by W. Todd Kaneko

The King of Purple, by Vincent Gomez, age 12

Anthem for Paisley Park, by Dante Di Stefano

I Shall Grow Purple, by Ronnie Sirmans

Reign, by Josh Lefkowitz