The poems in this project were written within a 24-hour period of each other and are presented in order of their appearance. Written as a call and response to each other, the poems are at times direct responses in content and form, or a mediation on what the offering triggered in the other.

Bryant Keith Alexander is Professor and Dean of College of Communication and Fine Arts at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles.

Mary E. Weems is an independent scholar, imagination-intellect theorist, poet, playwright, performer, and author of numerous books and journal articles, and five chapbooks.