Looking out, looking in: anthology of Latino poetry

Psalm for the next millennium ; Sonnets for the four horsemen of the apocalypse: long time among us / Jack Agüeros

A mongo affair ; El jibarito moderno; Nuyorican angel of records / Miguel Algarín

Tarde sobria ; do u remember ; cornfields thaw out / Alurista (Alberto Baltazar Urista)

Homecoming ; Dusting ; Bilingual sestina ; Exile ; Hairbands / Julia Álvarez

White-wing season ; sus plumas el viento ; El sonavabitche ; Cihuatlyotl, woman alone ; To live in the borderlands means you ; Don't give in, chicanita / Gloria Anzaldúa

Immigrant's voice / Naomi Ayala

Pinos Wells ; Roots ; A daily joy to be alive ; from Poem VI / Jimmy Santiago Baca

The Jewish cemetery in Guanabacoa / Ruth Behar

America / Richard Blanco

Recipe: chorizo con huevo made in the microwave / Bárbara Brinson Curiel

Poema en tres idiomas y caló / José Antonio Burciaga

To Julia de Burgos ; My, oh my, oh my of the nappy-haired Negress ; Poem for my death / Julia de Burgos

Belonging ; XVI. The daughter of my imagination ; Aida / Rafael Campo

Not just because my husband said / Ana Castillo

Rincón ; I brought Abuelo Leopoldo back from the dead and moved him to Miami ; Leavings / Sandra Castillo

Stolen kisses are the sweetest ; Letter from Lucrezia Borgia to her confessor / Carlota Caulfield

To we who were saved by the stars / Lorna Dee Cervantes

Caminando a solas ; Walking alone ; Labor de retazos ; Patchwork ; Carta a Arturo ; Letter to Arturo / Lucha Corpi

Kilotons and then some / Carlos Cumpían

Stupid America / Abelardo "Lalo" Delgado

Black train through the ancient empire of Chicago ; Trumpets from the islands of their eviction ; Niggerlips / Martín Espada

The given account ; Hubble's law ; The battle of Nashville ; A warm day in winter ; Proof ; Lighter / Blas Falconer

After 21 years, a postcard from my father ; Sor Juana's litany in the subjunctive ; Confessions / Alicia Gaspar de Alba

Outline for a Cuban folk-dance / Lourdes Gil

I am Joaquín: an epic poem / Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales

Memory of the hand / Ray Gonzáles

Helen ; Martha at the edge of desire ; Maria and the others / Franklin Gutiérrez

Going uptown to visit Miriam ; Three days/out of Franklin ; The physics of Ochun / Victor Hernández Cruz

El trópico ; Dear tía ; An unexpected conversation ; The child of exile ; The hyphenated man ; Sorting Miami ; Freedom ; Blake in the Tropics ; Geography jazz ; How the Cubans stole Miami / Carolina Hospital

Woman, woman ; When conventional methods fail / Angela de Hoyos

Fresa / Gabriela Jáuregui

Havana blues ; Forgotten memory / Wasabi Kanastoga

jesús papote ; tito madera smith ; AmeRícan ; lady liberty ; my graduation speech ; tesis de negreza ; nideaquinideallá / Tato Laviera

Ahora y siempre ; Mi madre ; Nuyorico ; S.P.I.C. / Caridad de la Luz (La Bru-j-a).

Nativity: for two Salvadoran women, 1986-1987 ; Hit and run / Demetria Martínzez

The translator at the reception for Latin American writers ; Arresting beauty ; Ethnic poetry ; The old man / Julio Marzán

Calle de la Amargura ; Philadelphia ; The floating island / Pablo Medina

Cómo desnudar a una mujer con un saxofón / Rubén Medina

In my perfect Puerto Rico ; Homemade hot sauce ; El coto laurel ; From the moment you died ; The dead ; Silence ; New York at 17 ; New York at 26 ; Milla ; Juanita / Nancy Mercado

Mango juice ; The desert is my mother ; El desierto es mi madra ; Graduation morning ; University Avenue ; 1910 ; Two worlds ; Now and then, America ; Desert women ; The grateful minority ; Bribe / Pat Mora

Repetitions ; Summer of the body ; Mariano, the air / Elías Miguel Muñoz

Sugarcane / Achy Obejas

Lessons of the past ; The idea of islands ; They never grew old ; The lesson of the sugarcane ; The Latin deli: an ars poetica ; So much for mañana / Judith Ortiz Cofer

The hollow ; Progress ; For the Cuban dead ; Winter landscape with a bird trap ; Ibises, Miami / Ricardo Pau-Llosa

Ten-pound draw ; Black boots ; Forty-one bullets off-Broadway / Willie Perdomo

Nobody knows my name ; Ghost writing ; Velorio ; What I used to know / Gustavo Pérez-Rirmat

The first rock and roll song of 1970 ; Nighttime sunshine mind game / Pedro Pietri

A lower east side poem ; The book of Genesis according to St. Miguelito ; This is not the place where I was born / Miguel Piñero

Los caudillos / raúlsalinas

Kid Hielero ; Combing my hair in the hall / Alberto Álvaro Ríos

We didn't bury him / Tomás Rivera

The blast furnace ; They come to dance ; Deathwatch ; Running to America / Luis J. Rodríguez

To the desert ; The ninth dream: war (in the city in which I live) ; Confessions: my father, hummingbirds and Frantz Fanon / Benjamín Alire Sáenz

Death in Vietnam ; My father is a simple man / Luis Omar Salinas

Barrios of the world / Ricardo Sánchez

Thanksgiving ; Elizabeth, New Jersey / Berta Sánchez-Bello

Daybreak / Gary Soto

Marked ; Compliments ; Sweet remember / Carmen Tafolla

New York City mira mira blues ; Swallows of Salangan / Gloria Vando

Perspectives ; Wo/men ; Haiti ; Reports / Chiqui Vicioso

Me caes sura, ése, descuéntate ; La loca ; was fun running 'round descalza ; transference / Evangelina Vigil Piñón

There were times / Alma Luz Villanueva.