Editors’ Note
Patrice Vecchione and Alyssa Raymond
Departure: July 30, 1984
Joseph O. Legaspi
Origin / Adoption
Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello
Second Attempt Crossing
Javier Zamora
Bent to the Earth
Blas Manuel De Luna
A Hymn to Childhood
Li-Young Lee
On Listening to Your Teacher Take Attendance
Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Extended Stay America
Janine Joseph
Fluency
Michelle Brittan Rosado
The Sign in My Father’s Hands
Martín Espada
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
Tater Tot Hot-Dish
Hieu Minh Nguyen
Off-Island Chamorros
Craig Santos Perez
A New National Anthem
Ada Limón
Portrait of Isako in Wartime
Mia Ayumi Malhotra
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
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
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