Table of Contents -- Latino Poetry and Distinctiveness -- Jack Agüeros -- Psalm for the Next Millennium -- Sonnets for the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Long Time among Us -- Miguel Algarín -- A Mongo Affair -- El jibarito moderno -- Nuyorican Angel of Records -- Alurista (Alberto Baltazar Urista) -- Tarde sobria -- do u remember -- cornfields thaw out -- Julia Alvarez -- Homecoming -- Dusting -- Bilingual Sestina -- Exile -- Hairbands -- Gloria Anzaldúa -- White-wing Season -- Woman Alone -- To live in the Borderlands means you* -- Don't Give In, Chicanita* -- Naomi Ayala -- Immigrant's Voice -- Jimmy Santiago Baca -- Pinos Wells -- Roots -- A Daily Joy to Be Alive -- Poem VI -- Ruth Behar -- The Jewish Cemetery in Guanabacoa -- Richard Blanco -- America -- Bárbara Brinson Curiel -- Recipe: Chorizo con Huevo Made in the Microwave -- José Antonio Burciaga -- Poema en tres idiomas y caló -- Julia de Burgos -- To Julia de Burgos* -- My, Oh My, Oh My of the Nappy-Haired Negress* -- Poem for My Death* -- Rafael Campo -- Belonging -- XVI. The Daughter of My Imagination -- Aida -- Ana Castillo -- Not Just Because My Husband Said -- Sandra Castillo -- Rincón -- I Brought Abuelo Leopoldo Back from the Dead and Moved Him to Miami -- Leavings -- Carolota Caulfield -- Stolen Kisses Are the SweetestL -- Letter from Lucrezia Borgia to Her Confessor -- Lorna Dee Cervantes -- To We Who Were Saved by the Stars -- Lucha Corpi -- Caminando a solas -- Walking Alone -- Labor de retazos -- Patchwork -- Carta a Arturo -- Letter to Arturo -- Carlos Cumpían -- Kilotons and Then Some -- Abelardo "Lalo" Delgado -- Stupid America -- Martín Espada -- Black Train through the Ancient Empire of Chicago -- Trumpets from the Islands of Their Eviction -- Niggerlips -- Blas Falconer -- The Given Account -- Hubble's Law -- The Battle of Nashville -- A Warm Day in Winter -- Proof.

Lighter, -- Alicia Gaspar de Alba -- After 21 Years, A Postcard from My Father -- Sor Juana's Litany in the Subjunctive -- Confessions -- Lourdes Gil -- Outline for a Cuban Folk-Dance -- Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales -- I Am Joaquín: an Epic Poem -- Ray González -- Memory of the Hand -- Franklin Gutiérrez -- Helen -- Martha at the Edge of Desire* -- Maria and the Others* -- Victor Hernández Cruz -- Going Uptown to Visit Miriam -- Three Days/out of Franklin -- The Physics of Ochun -- Carolina Hospital -- El Trópico -- Dear Tía -- An Unexpected Conversion -- The Child of Exile -- The Hyphenated Man -- Sorting Miami -- Freedom -- Blake in the Tropics -- Geography Jazz -- How the Cubans Stole Miami -- Ángela de Hoyos -- Woman, Woman -- When Conventional Methods Fail -- Gabriela Jáuregui -- Fresa -- Wasabi Kanastoga -- Havana Blues -- Forgotten Memory -- Tato Laviera -- jesús papote -- tito madera smith -- AmeRícan -- lady liberty -- my graduation speech -- tesis de negreza -- nideaquinideallá -- Caridad de la Luz (La Bru-j-a) -- Ahora y siempre -- Mi madre -- Nuyorico -- S. P. I. C. -- Demetria Martínez -- Nativity: For Two Salvadoran Women, 1986-1987 -- Hit and Run -- Julio Marzán -- The Translator at the Reception for Latin American Writers -- Arresting Beauty -- Ethnic Poetry -- The Old Man -- Pablo Medina -- Calle de la Amargura -- Philadelphia -- The Floating Island -- Rubén Medina -- Cómo desnudar a una mujer con un saxofón -- Nancy Mercado -- In My Perfect Puerto Rico -- Homemade Hot Sauce -- El Coto Laurel -- From the Moment You Died -- The Dead -- Silence -- New York at 17 -- New York at 26 -- Milla -- Juanita -- Pat Mora -- Mango Juice -- The Desert Is My Mother -- El desierto es mi madre -- Graduation Morning -- University Avenue -- 1910 -- Two Worlds -- Now and Then, America -- Desert Women -- The Grateful Minority -- Bribe -- Elías Miguel Muñoz.

Repetitions -- Summer of the Body -- Mariano, the Air -- Achy Obejas -- Sugarcane -- Judith Ortiz Cofer -- Lessons of the Past -- The Idea of Islands -- They Never Grew Old -- The Lesson of the Sugarcane -- The Latin Deli: An Ars Poetica -- So Much for Mañana -- Ricardo Pau-Llosa -- The Hollow -- Progress -- For the Cuban Dead -- Winter Landscape with a Bird Trap -- Ibises, Miami -- Willie Perdomo -- Ten-Pound Draw -- Black Boots -- Forty-One Bullets Off-Broadway -- Gustavo Pérez Firmat -- Nobody Knows My Name -- Ghost Writing -- Velorio -- What I Used to Know -- Pedro Pietri -- The First Rock and Roll Song of 1970 -- Nighttime Sunshine Mind Game -- Miguel Piñero -- A Lower East Side Poem -- The Book of Genesis According to St. Miguelito -- This Is Not the Place Where I Was Born -- raúlsalinas -- Los caudillos -- Alberto Álvaro Ríos -- Kid Hielero -- Combing My Hair in the Hall -- Tomás Rivera -- We Didn't Bury Him -- Luis J. Rodríguez -- The Blast Furnace -- They Come to Dance -- Deathwatch -- Running to America -- Benjamin Alire Sáenz -- To the Desert -- The Ninth Dream: War (in the City in Which I Live) -- Confessions: My Father, Hummingbirds and Frantz Fanon -- Luis Omar Salinas -- Death in Vietnam -- My Father Is a Simple Man -- Ricardo Sánchez -- Barrios of the World -- Berta Sánchez-Bello -- Thanksgiving -- Elizabeth, New Jersey -- Gary Soto -- Daybreak -- Carmen Tafolla -- Marked -- Compliments -- Sweet Remember -- Gloria Vando -- New York City Mira Mira Blues -- Swallows of Salangan -- Chiqui Vicioso -- Perspectives* -- Wo/Men* -- Haiti* -- Reports -- Evangelina Vigil-Piñón -- me caes sura, ése, descuéntate -- La loca -- was fun running 'round descalza -- transference -- Alma Luz Villanueva -- There Were Times -- Biographies -- Credits.