ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Thank you to the editors of the following publications in which some of these poems have previously appeared, some in earlier versions: 2nd Avenue Poetry, Action Yes, Amerarcana, Boxcar Poetry Review, Crate, The Drunken Boat, Fairy Tale Review, In Our Own Words, In the Grove, MiPOesias, New American Writing, Notre Dame Review, Octopus Magazine, Pacific Review, Poets & Artists, Tinfish, Versal, Womb Poetry, Word Riot, XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics, Zoland Poetry, and in the anthology Field of Mirrors (San Francisco: PAWA, Inc., 2008).

 

Thank you to my husband and partner Oscar Bermeo. Thank you Maxine Chernoff, Stacy Doris, and Jaime Jacinto; to Francisco Aragón, Tara Betts, Peter Conners, Rigoberto González, Wayne Hangad, Lee Herrick, Javier O. Huerta, Craig Santos Perez, Jennifer Reimer, Matthew Shenoda, Evie Shockley, Stephen Hong Sohn, Truong Tran, Sunny Vergara, Rich Villar, Thom Ward, and Bryan Thao Worra. Salamat at Dios ti Agngina to Gina Apostol, Rick Barot, Terry Bautista, Vangie Buell, Nick Carbó, Rachelle Cruz, Oliver de la Paz, M. Evelina Galang, Sarah Gambito, Vince Gotera, Luisa Igloria, Paolo Javier, Joseph O. Legaspi, Edwin A. Lozada, Rebecca Mabanglo-Mayor, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Jon Pineda, Bino A. Realuyo, Al Robles (RIP), Tony Robles, Patrick Rosal, Anthem Salgado, Lara Stapleton, Leny Mendoza Strobel, Eileen R. Tabios, Jean Vengua, and Marianne Villanueva.