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Index
Acevedo, Elizabeth, 108–109, 147
Acolyte (Faizullah), 62–63
Adrift (Tao), 124
Ahmed, Samira, 21–23, 147
A Hymn to Childhood (Lee), 16–18, 148
Akbar, Kaveh, 57–58, 148
Alarcón, Francisco X., 118–119, 148
Alyan, Hala, 24, 148–149
Asghar, Fatimah, 127–128, 149
Atlantis (Acevedo), 108–109
Author’s Prayer (Kaminsky), 125–126
Balingit, JoAnn, 29–30, 149–150
Bass, Ellen, 43, 150
Bent to the Earth (De Luna), 14–15
Bilston, Brian, 131–132, 150
Boland, Eavan, 120–121, 151
Border: A Double Sonnet, The (Ríos), 110–111
Break-In, The (Geter), 27–28
Cancio-Bello, Marci Calabretta, 9, 151
Castillo, Marcelo Hernandez, 116–117, 151–152
Chan, Marianne, 92–94, 152
Chang, Kristin, 74–76, 152
Chatti, Leila, 36–37, 152–153
Che, Cathy Linh, 90–91, 153
Chen, Chen, 6–8, 153–154
Choi, Franny, 33–35, 154
Choi Jeong Min (Choi), 33–35
Coomer, Jeff, 46–47, 154
Corral, Eduardo C., 55–56, 155
Day I Realized We Were Black, The (Montilla), 102–103
Dear America (Wolpé), 10–11
De Luna, Blas Manuel, 14–15, 155
Departure: July 30, 1984 (Legaspi), 1–2
Domesticity (Chang), 74–76
East Mountain View (Tran, P.), 60–61
Elhillo, Safia, 138–139, 155–156
Espada, Martín, 44–45, 156
Ethnic Studies (Siagatonu), 99–101
Extended Stay America (Joseph), 31–32
Faizullah, Tarfia, 62–63, 156–157
Field Guide Ending in a Deportation (Castillo), 116–117
First Light (Chen), 6–8
Fluency (Rosado), 38
Frank’s Nursery and Crafts (Phi), 53–54
Game Of Thrones (Asghar), 127–128
Geter, Hafizah, 27–28, 157
Gómez, Carlos Andrés, 65–66, 157–158
Gutiérrez y Muhs, Gabriella, 112–113, 158
Habitable Grief, A (Boland), 120–121
History Lesson (Coomer), 46–47
Home (Sinclair), 133–134
Hymn to Childhood, A (Lee), 16–18
Immigrant (Tuffaha), 3–5
Immigrant Aria (Mohabir), 19–20
In Colorado My Father Scoured and Stacked Dishes (Corral), 55–56
I Used to Be Much Much Darker (Alarcón), 118–119
Joseph, Janine, 31–32, 158–159
Kahf, Mohja, 50–52, 159
Kaminsky, Ilya, 125–126, 159–160
Key, The (Osman), 41–42
Las Casas Across Nations (Gutiérrez y Muhs), 112–113
Learning to Pray (Akbar), 57–58
Lee, Li-Young, 16–18, 160
Legaspi, Joseph O., 1–2, 160–161
Limón, Ada, 69–70, 161
Mahmoud, Emtithal, 87–89, 141–143, 161–162
Malhotra, Mia Ayumi, 71–73, 162
Mama (Mahmoud), 87–89
Master Film (Sharif), 39–40
Mexicans Begin Jogging (Soto), 114–115
Mohabir, Rajiv, 19–20, 162–163
Moïse, Lenelle, 104–107, 163
Montilla, Yesenia, 102–103, 163–164
Mukomolova, Gala, 122–123, 164
Muslim Girlhood (Chatti), 36–37
My Father Takes to the Road (Tagami), 48–49
My Grandmother Washes Her Feet in the Sink of the Bathroom at Sears (Kahf), 50–52
Naturalization (Xie), 59
New National Anthem, A (Limón), 69–70
Nezhukumatathil, Aimee, 25–26, 164
Nguyen, Hieu Minh, 64, 164–165
Ode to Enclaves (Tran, C.), 95–98
ode to the first white girl i ever loved (Olivarez), 82–84
Ode to the Heart (Bass), 43
Off-Island Chamorros (Perez), 67–68
Oh, Daughter (Sok), 129–130
Oklahoma (Alyan), 24
Olivarez, José, 82–84, 165
On Being American (Ahmed), 21–23
On Listening to Your Teacher Take Attendance (Nezhukumatathil), 25–26
Origin/Adoption (Cancio-Bello), 9
Osman, Ladan, 41–42, 165–166
Perez, Craig Santos, 67–68, 166
Phi, Bao, 53–54, 166–167
Poet at Fifteen, The (Sánchez), 77–79
Portrait of Isako in Wartime (Malhotra), 71�
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Pronounced (Gómez), 65–66
quaking conversation (Moïse), 104–107
Refugees (Bilston), 131–132
Return (Mukomolova), 122–123
Reyes, Yosimar, 135–137, 167
Ríos, Alberto, 110–111, 167
Rosado, Michelle Brittan, 38, 168
Sánchez, Erika L., 77–79, 168
#Sanctuary (Balingit), 29–30
Second Attempt Crossing (Zamora), 12–13
self-portrait with no flag (Elhillo), 138–139
Sharif, Solmaz, 39–40, 168–169
Shiferraw, Mahtem, 85–86, 169
Siagatonu, Terisa, 99–101, 169–170
Sign in My Father’s Hands, The (Espada), 44–45
Sinclair, Safiya, 133–134, 170
Sok, Monica, 129–130, 170
Someday I’ll Love Ocean Vuong (Vuong), 80–81
Soto, Gary, 114–115, 170–171
Split (Che), 90–91
Tagami, Jeff, 48–49, 171
Talks about Race (Shiferraw), 85–86
Tao, Alice, 124, 171–172
Tater Tot Hot-Dish (Nguyen), 64
Tran, Chrysanthemum, 95–98, 172
Tran, Paul, 60–61, 172
Tuffaha, Lena Khalaf, 3–5, 173
Undocumented Joy (Reyes), 135–137
Vuong, Ocean, 80–81, 173
When the Man at the Party Said He Wanted to Own a Filipino (Chan), 92–94
Wolpé, Sholeh, 10–11, 173–174
Xie, Jenny, 59, 174
Zamora, Javier, xv–xviii, 12–13, 174
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