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Note on Surnames -- In the Grasp of Childhood Fields -- Ode to My Mother's Hair / Joseph O. Legaspi -- Elegy for Pure Music / Jennifer Kwon Dobbs -- Exile House / Tenzin Tsundue -- Directions to My Imaginary Childhood / Nick Carbo -- Homework / Ha Jin -- String Theory / Alvin Pang -- In Praise of Goldberg / Tanikawa Shuntaro -- "Our cries, she used to say" / Venus Khoury-Ghata -- Road Back / Pak Chaesam -- Blue Flower / Xuan Quynh -- Suzhou Park / Vikram Seth -- Shaping Clay / Hamid Ismailov -- Overhearing Water / Mong-Lan -- Turning Point / Romesh Gunesekera -- Proof / Rajinderpal S. Pal -- Eskimo Paradise / Kyi May Kaung -- Practical Aim / Cyril Wong -- In My Mother's Dream / Chin Woon Ping -- Child Who Returned from There Told Us / Dilawar Karadaghi -- Habit of Hunger / Nguyen Quang Thieu -- Tiger skins / Aku Wuwu -- My Sister, Who Died Young, Takes Up The Task / Jon Pineda -- Things That Are Full of Pleasure - / Kimiko Hahn -- Dismantling the Wayang Stage / Leong Liew Geok -- from Bodhinabha: The Sky Vision / Rajendra Kishore Panda -- "The portrait of the father" / Abdellatif Laabi -- Age of My Father / Shukrulla -- Walk / Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni -- Depths of Field / Luis Cabalquinto -- Parsed into Colors -- Dance Music / David Avidan -- Wanderer / Xue Di -- Two Voices / Diana Der-Hovanessian -- Motown/Smokey Robinson / Jessica Hagedorn -- Tired of Soliloquies / Mamdouh Adwan -- Star, Bird & Autumn / Kamaran Mukri -- Stars and the Dawn / Noozar Elias -- Way of a River, The Forest, Night / Manju Kanchuli -- Dead / Fazil Husnu Daglarca -- excerpts from "A Man of the Port" / Kitamura Taro -- Postcards of Old Hong Kong / Leung Ping-kwan -- Exile / Ravi Shankar -- Postoperative Complications Following the Extraction of Memory / Taha Muhammad Ali -- Warm Inspiration / Yan Li -- Firearm / Nirmalendu Goon -- About the White Boys Who Drove By a Second Time to Throw a Bucket of Water on Me / Patrick Rosal -- Boy Who Had Eleven Toes / Gregory Djanikian -- She Comes with Horns and Tail / Cesar Ruiz Aquino -- Plucking Flowers / Ishigaki Rin -- I Sing of Equality / Kazi Nazrul Islam -- Leaning My Shoulder to the Sun / Firuza Mammadli -- At Last I Turn My Back / Xie Ye -- It's a Mineral, the Mind / Mohan Koirala -- Rum and Snow / Tsuji Yukio -- Exile / K. Dhondup -- Lifting the Hagar Heel / Mohja Kahf -- Water Is Water / Purna Bahadur Vaidya -- Genesis / Wadih Sa'adeh -- Chicago / Yong Shu Hoong -- Wanton with James / Boey Kim Cheng -- We Travel / Issa Makhlouf -- Injured Tomcat in an Empty Sack / Saqi Farooqi -- Everything / Zakariyya Muhammad -- excerpt from "Little Wars" / Muhammed al-Acha'ari -- Poem 240 / Syed Shamsul Haq -- Is This You or the Tale? / Unsi al-Haj -- excerpt from "Wonders Never Cease" / Yi Sha -- Insignificant Woman / Nazik al-Mala'ika -- Floating on Fifth / Meena Alexander -- Cycle / Bimal Nibha -- Squirrels in Washington / Gieve Patel -- excerpt from "The Spell of Blazing Trees" / Sa'adyya Muffareh -- "For they are at the center of my life" / Nurit Zarhi -- Butcher / Wing Tek Lum -- Lonely Woman's Room / Ahmad 'Abd al-Mu'ti Hijazi -- Paradises, Soldiers, and Stags / Hatif Janabi -- Immigrant Blues / Li-Young Lee -- Analysis of Yearning (Garod) / Barouyr Sevag -- Scavenging on Double Bluff / Shirley Geok-lin Lim -- Slips and Atmospherics -- Knowing / Yang Lian -- Genderole / Rukmini Bhaya Nair -- Ontology of Chang and Eng, the Original Siamese Twins / Cathy Park Hong -- Sentences / Che Qianzi -- Anchored Angel / Jose Garcia Villa -- excerpt from "What Was Not Conceivable" / Fatima Mahmoud -- Alphabet / Arun Kolatkar -- Then / Lawrence Joseph -- from The Screens / Brian Kim Stefans -- River of the Cyclops / Habib Tengour -- Brazen State / Prageeta Sharma -- Safety / Mei-mei Berssenbrugge -- Scene: a Loom / Sarah Gambito -- Eglantine Deal / Katayoon Zandvakili -- By the Light of a Single Worm / Aimee Nezhukumatathil -- Tonight While the Stars are Shimmering (New World Duet) / Marilyn Chin -- In the Fourth Year of The Plague / John Yau -- Hands Again / Ahmad Dahbour -- 311 Series 2 (Turkish Red)* / Lale Muldur -- Haiku / Tada Chimako -- Lights / Taufiq Rafat -- Quarterly Report No. 7: Epiphytes and Vetiver Control / Yeow Kai Chai -- Oval Ghost / Kitasono Katue -- excerpt from BlipSoak01 / Tan Lin -- Talisman / Wafaa' Lamrani -- Stereoscopes / Monica Youn -- Pauses / Bahtiyar Vahapzade -- World's a Printing House / Arvind Krishna Mehrotra -- Insomnia / Etel Adnan -- Snow / Alamgir Hashmi -- Poem - The Mirage / Abed Ismael -- Strategist / Arundhathi Subramaniam -- Dreamweavers / Marjorie Evasco -- Texas in the Afternoon / Khaled Mattawa -- enchantress / Tsai Yim Pui -- excerpts from "Anthology of Notes" / Yu Jian -- Language / Baha Zain -- Customs House / Vidhu Aggarwal -- poem, long overdue / Ouyang Yu -- You Hear Me Jim Morrison? / Jalal el-Hakmaoui -- Forests of Yellow Bamboo Trees / B. S. Mardhekar -- DJ Caml / Paolo Javier -- Index of Creatures / Salim Barakat -- Notations on the Prospects for Peace / Ricardo M. de Ungria -- Loose Strife with Apiary / Srikanth Reddy -- from The Body / Jenny Boully -- Proust in the Waters / Michael Ondaatje -- Earth of Drowned Gods -- America, America / Saadi Youssef -- Word for Freedom / Latif Nazemi -- Gigante / Sesshu Foster -- I Could Forget All This / R. Cheran -- After Long Thinking / Muhammad al-Maghut -- Spiritus Mundi / Jeet Thayil -- Argument About Horses / Kedarnath Singh -- My Freedom / Fadwa Tuqan -- In the Labor Market at Giang Vo / Pham Tien Duat -- Flying Garbage / Shang Qin -- Our Land / Aharon Shabtai -- White Lie / Abbas Beydoun -- Crow-Shooters / Hsien Min Toh -- nothin to waste / Suheir Hammad -- Amazing Grace / Fawzia Afzal-Khan -- Python in the Mall / Marne L. Kilates -- Ahalya / S. Sivasegaram -- excerpt from "Return" / Mohammad Kazem Kazemi -- Give me Bhaat, Bastard / Rafiq Azad -- Eating Fried Chicken / Linh Dinh -- From Exile to Exile / 'Abd-Allah al-Baraduni -- Letters from Exile / Pireeni Sundaralingam -- Apology to Orhan Pamuk / Carolyn Marie Souaid -- Facing a Nation / Meng Lang -- Moral Climate / Walid Bitar -- Dusty Skull / Monzer Masri -- Silenced / Nadia Anjuman -- Dark Associations / Xiong Hong -- Thinking American / Hayan Charara -- Trembling / Hilmy Salem -- Signature / Hasab al-Shaikh Ja'far -- Woman Reflects on Mutability / Ketaki Kushari Dyson -- Politics / Ashur Etwebi -- At the Back of Progress... / Taslima Nasrin -- Poet's Voice / Khalil Reza Uluturk -- Hill Station / Luisa A. Igloria -- When People Rise from Cheese, Statement #1 / Duo Duo -- At the Staircase / Prathibha Nandakumar -- Fallen Leaves / Yang Mu -- In Jerusalem / Mahmoud Darwish -- Disappearances / Vijay Seshadri -- Buffaloes Under Dark Water -- Islands / Fatma Kandil -- Physics / Lisa Asagi -- Sun Mass / Kim Sung-hui -- [section] / Mani Rao -- Many Are Called / Rick Barot -- Blue / Zhang Er -- Tercets from The Book of Revelation / Eileen Tabios -- Proximity / C. Dale Young -- Rain and Storm / Buddhadeva Bose -- Haiku / Chogyam Trungpa -- Poson Moon / Eva Ranaweera -- Sentry at Mutianyu Speaks to the Astronaut / Paul Tan -- Dream / Muhammad al-Ghuzzi -- Vertigo / Melih Cevdet Anday -- All of Them / Qasim Haddad -- Wedding / Moniza Alvi -- Labrador Tea / Arthur Sze -- Scoop Up the Sea / Angkarn Kalayanaphong -- Gathering Storm / Luis H. Francia -- Dead Boy / Takahashi Mutsuo -- excerpt from "Signs" / Taher Riyad -- White Moon / Wang Xiaoni -- Thin Line / Tamura Ryuichi -- Poet's Lunch / Yao Feng -- Rest of the Poem / Kunwar Narain -- Horse / Sajjad Sharif -- |
