That Indian man you see on the hospital bed / Roberto Cintli Rodríguez -- Lo prohibido / Renato
... Rosaldo -- Bratach Bána = White flags = Banderas blancas / Gabriel Rosenstock -- If you leave your shoes / Joseph Ross -- Chook Son, Arizona / Abel Salas -- Praise to all the poets responding to SB 107 / Raúl Sánchez -- Denial / Matt Sedillo -- Be fearless : choose love / Nina Serrano -- Desaparecidos / Tom Sheldon -- The sacred stone / Seven ears of maize I do bring / Hedy García Treviño -- Borders / Tara Evonne Trudell -- Arizona lamentation / Luis Alberto Urrea -- Stalking the divine under a desert full moon / Pam Uschuk -- No consolation for Lidia / Norma Liliana Valdez -- For a friend who objects to comparing the events leading up to the Holocaust with what is happening today in Arizona / Richard Vargas -- Emigro / Carlos Vázquez Segura -- Los desaparecidos / Edward A. Vidaurre -- Breathing while brown / Alama Luz Villanueva -- Always here / Rich Villar -- May Day is not the day to shoot at people who work for you / George Wallace -- Sestina for illegal widows / Lori A. Williams -- Diaspora / Meg Withers -- We are the ones we have been waiting for / Stephanie Yan -- Why I feel the way I do about SB 1070 / Andre Yang -- Contributors. Read MoreImmigrant crossing / Daniel García -- The ones who live on / La Virgen de las Calles / Nancy Aidé
... González -- Mi bandera = My flag / Grandchildren of the United Fruit Company / Sonia Gutiérrez -- Cerrando Herida / Israel Francisco Haros López -- Sand and bone desert spark / Gabriel Hartley -- Juan Mercado / Ralph Haskins -- Kim ayu (Vení pa'ca) / Claudia D. Hernández -- Where we belong / In response to the man who asked, "Why do your people march fro everything?" / Andrea Hernández Holm -- Arizona green (Manifesto #1070) / Juan Felipe Herrera -- A prayer to Santa Cebolla / Mari Herreras -- Our children are not anchors / Susana de Jesús Huerta -- Grave song for immigrant soldier / Aurora Levins Morales -- The same thing / The remembered / Genny Lim -- The border crossed u / Mark Lipman -- Trespasser shoes / César Love -- Insist and resist / My sweet dream, my living nightmare : adobe walls / Manuel Lozano -- On issues of aliens and immigration / Devorah Major -- The line / John Martínez -- Nunca, nunca, nunca : the Corrido of south Phoenix / Andrea García Mauk -- Arizona Goddam! / Joseph McNair -- Rimas contra las cárceles de papeles / Octaviano Merecias-cuevas -- The Great Wall of America / James O. Michael -- The dream that sleeps with power : a sonnet for the Dream Act / Edith Morris-Vásquez -- Ancianos / Yasmeen Najmi -- Haiku poems for social justice / Joe Navarro -- Ghost town : 24 hours B4 Arizona's SB 1070 / Gerardo Pacheco Matus -- Outlaw zone / Melinda Palacio -- Fading memories / Carlos Parada Ayala -- I am America / Ramón Piñero -- Reasonable suspicion / Manuel Ramos -- Who cares? / Here to stay / Sin fronteras = Beyond borders / Maritza Rivera -- Diluyamos las fronteras / Margarita Robleda. Read MoreForeword : they carry butterflies in their hands / Juan Felipe Herrera -- Introduction / Francisco
... X. Alarcón and Odilia Galván Rodríguez -- Para los nueve del capitolio = For the Capitol Nine / Invocation / Borderless compassion / Francisco X. Alarcón -- Portions / JoAnn Anglin -- Poem with a phrase of Isherwood / Francisco Aragón -- End of an affair / Cathy Arellano -- Nestorius niños y niñas = Our children / Jorge Tetl Argueta -- Tattoo SB 1070 / Adrián Arias -- Looking through chain link at McAllen Station / Víctor Ávila -- La regla de los ladrones = The law of thieves / Avotcja -- Reasonable suspicion : the conqueror's dream / Devreaux Baker -- Lightning on a black night over the Chuska Mountains / Kristopher Barney -- Slaughters and shifts and migrations : Arizona / Virginia Barrett -- Listen child / Esmeralda Bernal -- The flag of touch / Sarah Browning -- Border ghost of Sonora / Awakening at night / Carmen Calatáyud -- Hoy mujeres y hombres = Today women and men / Xánath Caraza -- On the border, we dream / Héctor Carbajal -- Niño traga fuegos / Elizabeth Cazessús -- Olmecan eyes / Lorna Dee Cervantes -- Del puente al arco / Ana Chig -- Reconsider the lilies = Considerad de nuevo las azucenas / Jabez W. Churchill -- The new West / Antoinette Nora Claypoole -- Sonnet for police officers charged with enforcing SB 1070 / Karen S. Córdova -- To be a pocha or not to be / Iris De Anda -- Capitol poetry / Nephtalí De León -- Your America, my Turtle Island / Susan Deer Cloud -- Before the world wakes / Two missing men, one white, one brown, one rich, one not / So rich / Elena Díaz Björquist -- There is a fence around my heart / James Downs -- A ceremony for reclaiming language / Qwo-Li Driskill -- Border / Sharon Doubiago -- Border crossing / Sharon Elliot -- La voz del inmigrante = Immigrant voices / Mario Ángel Escobar -- Isabel's corrido / Martín Espada -- Giving voice / Border inquest blues / Collecting thoughts from the Universe Odilia Galván Rodríguez. Read More