Contents

• The Other Half of the Sky / Nick Carbo. Rupturing Language for the Rapture of Beauty / Eileen Tabios
• Dead Stars / Paz Marquez Benitez
• The Mistress / Gina Apostol
• Shoes / Merlinda Bobis
• The Star / Lilledeshan Bose
• Magdalena’s Monologue / Cecilla Manguerra Brainard
• Consolation / Caroline Cheng
• Drowning / M. Evelina Galang
• Tenement Lover: no palm trees/in new york city / Jessica Hagedorn
• Excerpts from "West-Side Fugue" / Luba Halicki-Hoffman
• The Reprieve / Susan S. Lara
• The Birth / Reine Arcache Melvin
• Purita / Cristina Pantoja- Hidalgo
• Preview / Tara F. T. Sering
• Angel’s Story / Michelle M. C. Skinner
• Thirty Seconds / Lara Stapleton
• Excerpts from an Aborted Honest Autobiography / Eileen Tabios
• Map for a Far Place / Linda Ty-Casper
• Silence / Marianne Villanueva
• The Word-Eaters / Jessica Zafra - - Angela Manalang Gloria
• Revolt from Hymen
• Querida - - Heloise to Abelard
• Cyan Abad
• For Jean, on Her Wedding Day
• Ostrich
• Babylu Abaya
• I Wish I Were Baby Spice
• Jade Viray Afable
• Mojitos
• In the Shadow of La Montana Sagrada
• Mila D. Aguilar
• Millennium Bug
• Do You Not See the Devil
• Joyce Alcantara
• Russian Trinity
• Mouth
• Shirley Ancheta - - Carabao
• Triptych
• Nerissa S. Balce
• Premenstrual Poem
• Twenty-Eight
• Michelle Macaraeg Bautista
• Cleaning House
• When the Rains Came Today
• Ria de Borja
• Barcelonita
• Sofiya Colette Cabalquinto
• Overdue
• Carnal Knowledge
• Catalina Carlaga
• His Civil Rights
• Virginia Cerenlo
• My Annual Haircut
• A Definition of Pain
• Short-Term Memory
• Corinne Leilani Domingo
• Shooting Pineapples
• Thieves
• Marjorie Evasco
• Invitation from Latvia
• Acquainted with Lightning
• The Canadian Border
• Jean Vengua Gler
• Marcelina
• Erna Hernandez
• Tsismis
• Leslieann Hobayan
• Home
• Luisa A. Igloria
• Song of the Turning Body
• Looking Back
• Marra PL. Lanot
• From the Other Side of the Sea
• Tribeswoman
• Fatima Lim-Wilson
• Broken English
• Luzviminda, or Filipinas Make Such Good Maids
• Cristina Martinez-Juan
• Three Generations
• Farah Montesa
• My Coke Fiends
• Bedtime Stories
• Barb Natividad
• Rediscovery
• Shame
• Aimee Nezhukumatathl
• One Bite
• Ooty Lake
• Fishbone
• Yolanda Palis
• Contract
• Boxes
• Celine Salazar Parrenas
• That Dance with the Water
• A Love Poem on Living Together
• Cristina Querrer
• My Barrio by the Sea
• Barbara J. Pulmano Reyes
• Sirena (The Mermaid) Sings
• Michella Rivera-Gravage
• 53
• Our Girls
• I Am Now the Chaste Specter
• Darlene Rodrigues
• How She Understands Being Brown in L.A. Part I, or There Just the Same
• With the Waianae Range to the Right, the Koolaus on Our Left, the Pacific Ocean Lay at Our Feet
• Melissa S. Salva
• Ballet Lesson
• Lost Boy
• Marisa de los Santos
• Ars Poetica for Intemperate Climates
• Remission
• Nadine L. Sarreal
• Mary Claire
• The Old People Talking
• Shakira Andrea Sison
• Tincture
• Irene Suico Soriano
• Safehouses
• Edith L. Tiempo
• Speck of Rain Roaring
• Between-Living
• Prayer by a Waterfall in Pagatban
• Bonsai
• Rowena Torrevillas
• Each Word: A Family History
• Translation
• Doris Trinidad
• Presence
• Weightless
• Vigan: Images for Exercising
• Marjorie Evasco
• Ochre Tones
• Tando-Huni
• Elemental
• Yuta- Tubig-Kalayo-Hanging
• Ma. Milagros Geremia-Lachica
• Tahu
• Ginger Brew
• Namit Raad
• It Would Be Delicious
• Luisa A. Igloria
• Bulan A. Naraniag
• Radiant Moon - - Dagiti Sarsarita Ni Uncle Pete
• The Stories of Uncle Pete
• Elynia S. Mabanglo
• Balada Ni Lola Amonita
• The Ballad of Lola Amonita
• Leona Florentino
• Desperation