☞ REMEMBER: Fire!! Quarterly

Fire!! A Quarterly Devoted To The Younger Negro Artists debuted in 1926 at the height of the Harlem Renaissance when some of its cultural leaders banded together to challenge the views of modern black society uptown.  Literary contributors included Wallace Thurman, Lewis Alexander, Gwendolyn Bennett, Arna Bontemps , Countee Cullen, Waring Cuney and Aaron Douglas provided illustrutations.

Langston Hughes was quoted in saying that the title came about because of the publication's mission "to burn up a lot of the old, dead conventional Negro-white ideas of the past ... into a realization of the existence of the younger Negro writers and artists, and provide us with an outlet for publication not available in the limited pages of the small Negro magazines then existing." Smoke, Lilies And Jade by Richard Bruce notably appeared in this short lived publication and was one of the first stories that featured gay relationships within the black community uptown.