Table of Contents:
  • The wedding / Denise Chávez
  • Uncoiling / Pat Mora
  • On becoming round / Miriam Bornstein
  • Nada / Judith Ortiz Cofer
  • (There has to be) something more than everything / Rosemary Catacalos
  • Night vigil / Evangelina Vigil-Piñon
  • The house of quilts / Enedina Cásarez Vásquez
  • Uncle Teo's shorthand cookbook / Margarita Engle
  • Holy relics / Gloria Anzaldúa
  • Tía María / Deborah Paredez
  • Four, free, and illegal / Lucha Corpi
  • Along my paths / Teresinka Pereira
  • Ryan, thanks for the offer / Nicole Pollentier
  • The kiss / Julia Alvarez
  • Bananas / Lorna Dee Cervantes
  • Sin palabras / Sheila Sánchez Hatch
  • Dear world / Alma Luz Villanueva
  • Eyes of Zapata / Sandra Cisneros
  • He 2-104 : a true planetary nebula in the making / Gloria Vando
  • The glass box / Rosario Ferré
  • Adelina / Marjorie Agosín
  • Xochitl-poem : for Paul Perry, Joseph Booker, and the Palo Alto Writers Guild / Angela de Hoyos
  • In the other half of time / Mireya Robles
  • From face / Cecile Pineda
  • An isle of sorrow / Bernice Zamora
  • I have no companions / Maya Islas
  • Checho's cow / Carmen Tafolla
  • North from the river, south inside / Eliana Súarez Rivero
  • Lotería : la rosa / Mary Guerrero Milligan
  • The singing antelope / Inés Martínez
  • New Mexican confession / Cherríe Moraga
  • Being Indian, a candle, and so many dying stars / Ana Castillo.