Contents

Editors’ Note
Patrice Vecchione and Alyssa Raymond

Foreword
Javier Zamora

Departure: July 30, 1984
Joseph O. Legaspi

Immigrant
Lena Khalaf Tuffaha

First Light
Chen Chen

Origin / Adoption
Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello

Dear America
Sholeh Wolpé

Second Attempt Crossing
Javier Zamora

Bent to the Earth
Blas Manuel De Luna

A Hymn to Childhood
Li-Young Lee

Immigrant Aria
Rajiv Mohabir

On Being American
Samira Ahmed

Oklahoma
Hala Alyan

On Listening to Your Teacher Take Attendance
Aimee Nezhukumatathil

The Break-In
Hafizah Geter

#Sanctuary
JoAnn Balingit

Extended Stay America
Janine Joseph

Choi Jeong Min
Franny Choi

Muslim Girlhood
Leila Chatti

Fluency
Michelle Brittan Rosado

Master Film
Solmaz Sharif

The Key
Ladan Osman

Ode to the Heart
Ellen Bass

The Sign in My Father’s Hands
Martín Espada

History Lesson
Jeff Coomer

My Father Takes to the Road
Jeff Tagami

My Grandmother Washes Her Feet in the Sink of the Bathroom at Sears
Mohja Kahf

Frank’s Nursery and Crafts
Bao Phi

In Colorado My Father Scoured and Stacked Dishes
Eduardo C. Corral

Learning to Pray
Kaveh Akbar

Naturalization
Jenny Xie

East Mountain View
Paul Tran

Acolyte
Tarfia Faizullah

Tater Tot Hot-Dish
Hieu Minh Nguyen

Pronounced
Carlos Andrés Gómez

Off-Island Chamorros
Craig Santos Perez

A New National Anthem
Ada Limón

Portrait of Isako in Wartime
Mia Ayumi Malhotra

Domesticity
Kristin Chang

The Poet at Fifteen
Erika L. Sánchez

Someday I’ll Love Ocean Vuong
Ocean Vuong

ode to the first white girl i ever loved
José Olivarez

Talks about Race
Mahtem Shiferraw

Mama
Emtithal Mahmoud

Split
Cathy Linh Che

When the Man at the Party Said He Wanted to Own a Filipino
Marianne Chan

Ode to Enclaves
Chrysanthemum Tran

Ethnic Studies
Terisa Siagatonu

The Day I Realized We Were Black
Yesenia Montilla

quaking conversation
Lenelle Moïse

Atlantis
Elizabeth Acevedo

The Border: A Double Sonnet
Alberto Ríos

Las Casas Across Nations
Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs

Mexicans Begin Jogging
Gary Soto

Field Guide Ending in a Deportation
Marcelo Hernandez Castillo

I Used to Be Much Much Darker
Francisco X. Alarcón

A Habitable Grief
Eavan Boland

Return
Gala Mukomolova

Adrift
Alice Tao

Author’s Prayer
Ilya Kaminsky

Game Of Thrones
Fatimah Asghar

Oh, Daughter
Monica Sok

Refugees
Brian Bilston

Home
Safiya Sinclair

Undocumented Joy
Yosimar Reyes

self-portrait with no flag
Safia Elhillo

Afterword
Emtithal Mahmoud

Acknowledgments
Biographies
Permissions
Index