I. Antecedents, seventeenth to early twentieth ... century. de La Florida : Canto XIX/from La Florida : Canto XIX / Fray Alonso Gregorio de Escobedo ; de Historia de la Nueva México/from History of New Mexico / Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá ; Jesús, María y José/Jesus, Mary and Joseph ; de Los Comanches/from Los Comanches / Anonymous ; Niágara/Niagra / José María Heredia y Heredia ; La Borinqueña/The song of Borinquen / Lola Rodríguez de Tió ; de Versos sencillos/from Simple verses ; Amor de ciudad grande/Love in the city / José Martí ; Haiku seleccionados/selected haiku ; Luna galante/Gallant moon / José Juan Tablada ; All the fancy things ; The poet and his poems / William Carlos Williams ; A song for Wall Street ; My Nicaragua / Salomón de la Selva -- II. Corridos and nostalgia songs, nineteenth and twentieth centuries. La Indita de Plácida Romero/Little Indian ballad of Plácida Romero / Anonymous ; El corrido de Gregorio Cortez/The ballad of Gregorio Cortez / Anonymous ; Tres veces mojado/Three times a wetback / Enrique Franco ; En mi viejo San Juan/In my old San Juan / Noel Estrada ; México lindo y querido/Mexico sweet and beloved / Chucho Monge ; Que bonita bandera/What a beautiful flag / Ramito (Florencio Morales Ramos) ; Me dicen Cuba/They call me Cuba / Alexander Abreu ; Ojalá que llueva café/Let us hope it rains coffee / Juan Luis Guerra -- Read MoreIII. Latino ancestors, twentieth century Latin ... American. Los Estados Unidos/The United States / José Dávila Semprit ; Los poetas solos de Manhattan/The lonely poets of Manhattan / Eugenio Florit ; de Caballo de palo: #3/from The wooden horse: #3 ; de Caballo de palo: #29/from The wooden horse: #29 / Clemente Soto Vélez ; A Julia de Burgos/To Julia de Burgos ; Puerto Rico está en tí/Puerto Rico is in you / Julia de Burgos ; Ars poetica/Ars Poetica ; Carta a un desterrado/Letter to an exile / Claribel Alegría ; Managua 6:30 pm/Managua 6:30 pm ; Entre fachadas/Among facades / Ernesto Cardenal ; Para Ana Veldford/For Ana Veldford / Lourdes Casal ; Luxumei/Luxumei ; Eclipse en Nueva York/Eclipse in New York / Cecilia Vicuña ; Danzón inconcluso pa noche e isla/Unfinished danzón for night and island / Excilia Saldaña ; Carta a una hermana que vive en un país lejano/Letter to my sister who lives in a foreign land ; 50 versos de amor y una confesión no realizada a Ernesto Cardenal/50 love poems and an unfulfilled confession to Ernesto Cardenal ; Latino. The Mexican-Texan / Américo Paredes ; I am Joaquín : an epic poem, 1967 / Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales ; Stupid America ; De Corpus a San Antonio / Lalo Delgado ; El Louie / José Montoya ; On hearing my name pronounced correctly, unexpectedly, for once ; On the impossibility of translation / Rhina P. Espaillat ; Unity vision / Raúl R. Salinas ; Sonnet for the #6 ; Sonnet: the history of Puerto Rico / Jack Agüeros ; Ode to the Mexican experience ; That my name is Omar / Luis Omar Salinas ; Oklahoma America ; Alligator of happiness / Frank Lima -- Read MoreIV. Let me tell you what a poem brings. Lejos/Far ... away ; La extranjera/The foreigner / Marjorie Agosín ; Un beso is not a kiss ; In Xochitl in Cuicatl ; de Amor oscuro/from Of dark love / Francisco X. Alarcón ; Nuyorican Angel Papo ; HIV / Miguel Algarín ; sliver ; with / Alurista ; All-American girl ; Museo del hombre / Julia Alvarez ; To live in the Borderlands means you / Gloria Anzaldúa ; A chapter from The Book of Lamentations ; That flag / Rane Arroyo ; "I love the wind..." ; Knowing the snow another way / Jimmy Santiago Baca ; Soy boricua ; A toast to divine madness / Giannina Braschi ; A Christmas carol: c. 1976 / Ana Castillo ; Poem for the young white man who asked me how I, an intelligent, well-read person could believe in the war between races ; Visions of México while at a writing symposium in Port Townsend, Washington ; Flatirons ; Bananas / Lorna Dee Cervantes ; You bring out the Mexican in me ; Loose woman ; Instructions for my funeral / Sandra Cisneros ; México/Mexico ; Emily Dickinson/Emily Dickinson / Lucha Corpi ; Between language and desire / Silvia Curbelo ; La gran ciudad / Angela de Hoyos ; Colibrí ; Albanza: in praise of Local 100 ; Flowers and bullets ; The republic of poetry / Martín Espada ; Mambo love poem ; Black notes and "You do something to me" / Sandra María Esteves ; Operation Wetback, 1953 / Diana García ; My father's hands / Richard Garcia ; At the Rio Grande near the end of the century ; The head of Pancho Villa / Ray Gonzalez ; Latin & soul ; Trio Los Condes / Victor Hernández Cruz ; Exiles ; My mother's coat is green ; The women tell their stories ; Let me tell you what a poem brings ; The chaos beneath buttons/Acrylic in blue / Juan Felipe Herrera ; Mixturao / Tato Laviera ; When I write archipelago / Aurora Levins Morales ; El fantasma de mi padre en dos paisajes/My father's ghost in two landscapes ; Mambo/Mambo / Jaime Manrique ; History as a second language / Dionisio D. Martínez ; The exile ; The floating island / Pablo Medina ; Doña Flora's hothouse / Orlando Ricardo Menes ; Now and then, America ; El Río Grande ; Let us hold hands ; Prayer to the saints/Oración a los santos / Pat Mora ; Because my mother burned her legs in a freak accident ; Where you need to go ; To understand El Azul / Judith Ortiz Cofer ; Last mambo in Miami / Gustavo Pérez Firmat ; Puerto Rican obituary ; The broken English dream / Pedro Pietri ; A Lower East Side poem / Miguel Piñero ; Etymologies / Leroy V. Quintana ; Carlos ; Nani ; The Vietnam Wall ; Rabbits and fire / Alberto Ríos ; The monster ; Jarocho blues ; The rabbi and the cholo / Luis J. Rodriguez ; The goat's cry / Leo Romero ; The fifth dream : bullets and deserts and borders / Benjamin Alire Sáenz ; canto / Ricardo Sánchez ; Salt ; Mexicans begin jogging ; Bulosan, 1935 ; Fresno's Westside blues / Gary Soto ; Mujeres del rebozo rojo / Carmen Tafolla ; [no yoyo] / Edwin Torres ; The first lowrider in heaven / Luis Alberto Urrea ; At the rainbow / Robert Vasquez ; Child's laughter / Alma Luz Villanueva ; Scene from the movie GIANT / Tino Villanueva -- Read MoreV. Howling as the came. 1992/5th sun/our present / ... Steven Alvarez ; The witch reads me my birthchart / Eloisa Amezcua ; Nicaragua in a voice / Francisco Aragón ; Duke Ellington, Santa Ana, El Salvador, 1974 ; Como tú/Like you/Like me / Richard Blanco ; Let light shine out of darkness / Daniel Borzutzky ; My voice / Rafael Campo ; Report from the Temple of Confessions in Old Chicano English / Brenda Cárdenas ; La fiesta del globo / Sandra M. Castillo ; When hearing bàtá drums / Adrian Castro ; Manley Hot Springs, Alaska: 1975 / Lisa D. Chávez ; Self portrait / Cynthia Cruz ; Mi historia / David Dominguez ; The given account / Blas Falconer ; The line / Gina Franco ; Pool / Suzanne Frischkorn ; (Llorona soliloquy) ; (after Pedro Pietri's "Puerto Rican obituary") / Carmen Giménez ; Ode to the watermelon ; The Black Maria / Aracelis Girmay ; How to survive the last American colony / Kevin A. González ; A grotesque side of panamá with cooling shadow / Roberto Harrison ; I've worn that feminine skin / Tim Z. Hernandez ; Toward a portrait of the undocumented / Javier O. Huerta ; Clearing customs / Maurice Kilwein Guevara / Southwest Philadelphia, 1988 / Raina J. León ; Notes on the below ; Cargo ; The end of poetry / Ada Limón ; Bones / Sheryl Luna ; Ode to the diasporican / Mariposa ; Discovering America / Demetria Martinez ; from Count / Valerie Martinez ; Talk ("I am Sicilian today...") ; Talk ("I am Moroccan today...") / Farid Matuk ; Drought (California) / Rachel McKibbens ; El villain / Maria Melendez ; Fresno night / Andrés Montoya ; Santayana, the muralist / John Murillo ; Love like auto-sodomy / Miguel Murphy ; No longer ode/Oda indebida / Urayoán Noel ; Year of the dog : walls and mirrors / Deborah Paredez ; Arroz con son y clave ; We used to call it Puerto Rican rain / Willie Perdomo ; Tinta/Ink / Mayra Santo-Febres ; Dicta indigena / Ire'ne Lara Silva ; El exilio / Virgil Suárez ; Latinx poet / Rodrigo Toscano ; Madre America / Emanuel Xavier -- Read MoreVI.My body sang its undeath. La ciguapa / ... Elizabeth Acevedo ; Undetectable explained to a primo / Anthony Aguero ; What I say to my mother after her father dies is soft / Aldo Amparán ; Golden shovel with solstice / Diannely Antigua ; Wallflower mambo / Gustavo Adolfo Aybar ; Yaguareté white / Diego Báez ; My body the haunted house / Oliver Baez Bendorf ; All palaces are temporary palaces / Rosebud Ben-Oni ; Lizard blood / David Campos ; Mejiafricana / Natasha Carrizosa ; Wetback / Marcelo Hernandez Castillo ; The distance between love & my language / Andrés Cerpa ; Central American-American / Maya Chinchilla ; How to lynch a Mexican (1848-present) / Anthony Cody ; In Colorado my father scoured and stacked dishes ; Want / Eduardo C. Corral ; Ars poetica with mother and dogs / Rio Cortez ; Dirty sheets / Joseph Delgado ; To hear the leaves sing / Blas Manuel de Luna ; Tortilla smoke : a genesis ; If Eve Side-Stealer & Mary Busted-Chest ruled the world ; Postcolonial love poem / Natalie Diaz ; Dear Diego, / Angel Dominguez ; Punctum/Image of an intifada / Carolina Ebeid ; Flags / Robert Fernandez ; Along the East River and in the Bronx young men were singing / Ariel Francisco ; Xunantunich / Vanessa Jimenez Gabb ; Coatlicue defends, amongst others, the Tunguska Event / Jennifer Givhan ; Coatlicue / Rodney Gomez ; Parallel universe / Cynthia Guardado ; Put attention / Laurie Ann Guerrero ; Translating the wash / Leticia Hernández-Linares ; Cristo Negro de Portobelo / Darrel Alejandro Holnes ; Some nights, I just want to hold a man in my arms because this would make everything better in my life-- / Joe Jiménez ; Convert glossary / Antonio de Jesús López ; The only Mexican / David Tomas Martinez ; Lord, Spanglish me / J. Michael Martinez ; Machete / Jasminne Mendez ; Maps / Yesenia Montilla ; Discovering pain / Juan J. Morales ; And his name is Nixon / Adela Najarro ; Mexican American disambiguation / José Olivarez ; "Sick" in America / Alan Pelaez Lopez ; Laredo Riviera / Emmy Pérez ; A hurricane has come and gone./What do we tell our children now? / Ana Portnoy Brimmer ; On realizing I am Black / Gabriel Ramirez ; Biracial Ghazal : why everything ends in blood / Julian Randall ; La Mesa / Alexandra Lytton Regalado ; Read MoreTRE (My revolutionary) / Yosimar Reyes ; Elegy ... composed of a thousand voices in a bottle / Iliana Rocha ; La migra ; Shelter / José Antonio Rodríguez ; They ; If time is queer/and memory is trans/and my hands hurt in the cold/then / Roque Raquel Salas Rivera ; All the bones at the bottom of the Rio Grande / C. T. Salazar ; Distance / Ruth Irupé Sanabria ; Narco / Erika L. Sánchez ; Paraíso / Jacob Shores-Argüello ; Chino / Brandon Som ; The Joshua tree//submits her name change / Christopher Soto ; Sonata of the luminous lagoon / Vincent Toro ; Small shame blues / Dan Vera ; Home is where the closet is / Laura Villareal ; A field of onions : brown study / Vanessa Angélica Villareal ; El Salvador / Javier Zamora. Read More |
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