Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 --

excerpt from "Tales of a Severed Head" / Rachida Madani -- Mohn Des Gedachtnis / Monica Ferrell -- Weeping / Nacera Mohammadi -- Woman Translating, or La Belle Infidele / Hung Hung -- Night Scene / Arthur Yap -- Travel Again - The Time I Am Heading For Is May / Shiraishi Kazuko -- To Scuttle the Moon / Joy Kogawa -- Blue Rays / Erkin Vahidov -- excerpt from "Butterfly Valley" / Sherko Bekes -- Deserted Cafe / To Thuy Yen -- Night / Suerkul Turgunbayev -- Origin & Ash / Tina Chang -- Place Like Water / Anjum Hasan -- Climbing Mt. Iraya / Edgar B. Maranan -- Carpet Garden / Ziba Karbassi -- from The Wolf Girls of Midnapure / Bhanu Kapil -- Wolves Are Roaring / Chuan Sha -- Crocodiles / Adrian A. Husain -- Four Poems from Panjore DanRer Shabda (Oars in My Ribs) / Sankha Ghosh -- Song / Al-Saddiq al-Raddi -- Black Hen / A. K. Ramanujan -- Revisit / Montri Umavijani -- Sky / Manjul -- Moth / Ranjit Hoskote -- It Can't Ever See - The Sky / Rajee Seth -- About / Roy Miki -- excerpts from "Turtle Island Aria II" / Ling Yu -- Of Sea Wayfarers / Esmail Khoi -- Spider / Manohar Shetty -- She Who Threads the Skies / Malathi Maitri -- City of Wrecked Ships / Amal Dunqul -- Antelope / Koike Masayo -- Depth: A Sonnet / Atamurad Atabayev -- Autobiography of Night / Nathalie Handal -- excerpt from "What Some Are Saying About The Body" / R. Zamora Linmark -- Apostrophe in the Scripture -- Angina Pectoris / Nazim Hikmet -- Gujarat 2002 / Keki N. Daruwalla -- excerpts from "Diary of Beirut Under Siege, 1982" / Adonis -- excerpts from "Eulogy World" / Gu Cheng -- Nallur, 1982 / Jean Arasanayagam -- Camouflage Costumes / Granaz Moussavi -- Burning Eden One Branch at a Time / Bryan Thao Worra -- Bomb Crater Sky / Lam Thi My Da -- Casa Blanca 1991 / Jam Ismail -- Once Again the Mind / Faiz Ahmed Faiz -- I Was Not One of the Six Million. And What Is the Span of My Life? Open Shut Open / Yehuda Amichai -- Pham Hong Thai / To Hu'u -- Kind of Happiness / Jayanta Mahapatra -- Pecan Leaves / Maya Bejerano -- Black Horses / Ghassan Zaqtan -- Lineup / Barbara Tran -- Recital / Muhammad 'Afifi Matar -- North South East West / Kim Kwang-kyu -- excerpts from "Letter in Winter" / Y. Nhi -- Mindful Breathing / D. H. Melhem -- Coming Home at Night / Joko Pinurbo -- Blow Job / Amir Or -- At Least / Waleed Khazindar -- Blind Boats / Saniyya Saleh -- Greatest Wish Song / Ahmad Shamlu -- One Evening in a Cafe / Amjad Nasser -- Time Consoled in the Stone / Bejan Matur -- Eleven Rudras / H. S. Shiva Prakash -- Fall of Culture / U. Sam Oeur -- If There Were No War / Mammad Araz -- Into Olive Leaves / Shamsur Rahman -- In Answer to Father's Letter / Sitor Situmorang -- South / Kadhim Jihad -- One Morning, in the LA Times / Sholeh Wolpe -- Ssitkim Kut - A wandering spirit's song / Shin Kyong-nim -- Word PEACE / Naomi Shihab Nye -- War Symphony / Chen Li -- This House, My Bones -- Blank Letter / Sudeep Sen -- Just Words / Samuel Hazo -- Banalata Sen / Jibananda Das -- excerpts from "Misfortune" / Xi Chuan -- Lucky Men / Partaw Naderi -- Beyond the Seven Hills / Oktay Rifat -- excerpt from 'An Inquest" / Samih al-Qasim -- Kathmandu / Banira Giri -- Homeland, Once More, I'll Build You / Simin Behbahani -- Cedars / Nadia Tueni -- Story of My Country / Asadullah Habib -- Chikin Hekka / Garrett Hongo -- Deathsleep / Al Mahmud -- Summer Roof / Choman Hardi -- Cursed House / Bhupi Sherchan -- Ode to Bombay / Dilip Chitre -- In Water / Amin Kamil -- Wey / Ravil Bukharaev -- On Encountering Sorrow / Luo Zhicheng -- No One Belonging to Me / Mohammad Rafiq -- Dump / Vivek Narayanan -- Small / Gevorg Emin -- excerpts from Against the Wilderness / Wong Phui Nam -- Black Map / Bei Dao -- Washing the Grain / Yasmine Gooneratne -- POP SONG 1 "At Home in Hong Kong" 1964 / Louise Ho -- Carpet Weaver / M. Athar Tahir -- Istanbul / Ilhan Berk -- Filipineza / Bino A. Realuyo -- Eastern Poem / Gurbannazar Eziz -- Ma'reb Speaks / Abd al-Aziz al-Maqalih -- Two Voices / Kirpal Singh -- Your Hands Guide Me Through Trains / Brian Komei Dempster -- Train Station / Hassan Najmi -- Midday / Ak Welsapar -- I Want My Soil Back / Dorji Penjore -- Father / Nguyen Duy -- Gondwana Rocks / Dom Moraes -- Jeepney / Gemino H. Abad -- In the Third Country / G. S. Sharat Chandra -- Bedouin / Edip Cansever -- In the Arab House / Al-Munsif al-Wahaybi -- Eighteen Haiku for Xiamen / Agnes S. L. Lam -- Neighbor's Geese / Merlie M. Alunan -- Kabul Behind My Window / Bashir Sakhawarz -- At the Hamlet of Gulestaneh / Sohrab Sepehri -- Black Room / Zhai Yongming -- Tale / Salma Khadra Jayyusi -- Mandelstam in Armenia, 1930 / Peter Balakian -- Desert Years / U. Tin Moe -- Korean Community Garden / Suji Kwock Kim -- Nomad III / Gyalpo Tsering -- Dying for a Himalayan Dream / Farah Didi -- This House, My Bones / Elmaz Abinader -- Bowl of Air and Shivers -- To God / Sarat Kumar Mukhopadhyay -- One more say / Tsering Wangmo Dhompa -- Vision of St. Clare / Pimone Triplett -- Tian Qiao / Sky Bridge / Russell C. Leong -- How Middle-Eastern Singing Was Born / Sargon Boulus -- Quietly / Agyeya -- Tale / Goenawan Mohamad -- excerpts from Flowers of a Moment / Ko Un -- Natural Science Teacher / Liu Kexiang -- forest last day / Muhammad Haji Salleh -- Scream / Muhammed al-Faituri -- Phosphorus / Behcet Necatigil -- Song of Krishna (5) / Viswanatha Satyanarayana -- Foreign Flags / Kim Nam-jo -- Hill / Nissim Ezekiel -- Beginning / Suyunbay Eraliev -- Reunion / Lisa Suhair Majaj -- Stammer / K. Satchidanandan -- Grand Days Have Gone By Her / Dahlia Ravikovitch -- Seven Sparks / Rafiq Raaz -- Tuvia / Yona Wallach -- excerpt from "Tutka Roi Sai (Sand Trace Doll)" / Saksiri Meesomsueb -- Sacred River / Eunice de Souza -- Valley of Marvels / Eric Gamalinda -- Yamoussoukro, With Cathedral / Indran Amirthanayagam -- Midnight, on the Fifth Day of the Fourth Month in the Tibetan Calendar / Woeser -- Breaking Karma / Cathy Song -- Retaliation / Yusuf al-Khal -- Clouds / Najwan Darwish -- excerpt from "The Wolf's Hour" / Nazeeh Abu Afash -- Iqleema / Fehmida Riyaz -- excerpt from "Creation Poems" / Amrita Pritam -- Messenger / Abdul Bari Jahani -- This Year / Ku Sang -- Black Sails / Sujata Bhatt -- Prose Poem / Suresh Parshottamdas Dalal -- Noon / Abdullah Habib al-Maaini -- Procession / Sasaki Mikiro -- Wafiqa's Casement / Badr Shakir al-Sayyab -- Highgate Cemetery / Shanta Acharya -- Turbaned One / Shiv Kumar Batalvi -- Redemption / Rahman Rahi -- After a Turn Around the Temple / Toya Gurung -- Clump of Grass / Saif al-Rahbi -- Corpse of a Sufi / Eshqabil Shukur -- Comfort for a Lonely Woman / Suad al-Kawari -- Swanning In / Debjani Chatterjee -- Alert to Glory / Sally Ito -- Ways of the World / Ngodup Paljor -- On the seventh day of my birth / Amina Said -- To Each of the Dead / Andree Chedid -- Rowena, Playing in the Sun / Edith L. Tiempo -- Trivial Details / Phan Nhien Hao -- Age of Commerce / Masud Khan -- Allegra with Spirit / Eugene Gloria -- Dead Grow Old / Attila Ilhan -- Mrs. Wei on Piety / Hilary Tham -- excerpt from "Black Candle Drops" / Abdallah Zrika -- Ein Leben / Dan Pagis -- Sand in Flames / Nujoum al-Ghanim -- Dream of Knives / Alfred A. Yuson -- Walking Behind the Body / Sapardi Djoko Damono -- Blind Eyes, Eyes That See / Buddhadhasa Bhikkhu -- Aubade with Bread for the Sparrows / Oliver de la Paz -- In a Dilapidated House / Ayukawa Nobuo -- Secret of Life and Nature / Muhammed Hasan 'Awwad -- Manga / Michelle Yasmine Valladares -- Dhyana Land / Du' Thi Hoan -- Quivering World -- 50 Bedtime Stories / Evelyn Lau --

Pictures of the Body / Bibhu Padhi -- three love objects / Qian Xi Teng -- Sonnet / Xi Xi -- Quatrains / Ustad Khalilullah Khalili -- Ghazal / Agha Shahid Ali -- Terrace of Dead Fishermen / M. A. Sepanlu -- As Agreed / Nathan Zach -- Aisha's Profile / Abdul Wahab al-Bayati -- East Window / R. Parthasarathy -- Portrait of a Bronx Bedroom / Ishle Yi Park -- Eros in Boystown / Justin Chin -- Five Rice Queens / Timothy Liu -- Near Kitami Station on the Odakyu Line / Ito Hiromi -- Sin / Forugh Farrokhzad -- but love / Zheng Danyi -- Non-Communication / Kishwar Naheed -- Preparation for Our Desires / Abd el-Monem Ramadan -- Gist of the Story / Salah 'Abd al-Sabur -- Said in the Rain / Kazim Ali -- Mother of Pearls / Sufia Kamal -- Measure / Zareh Khrakhouni -- Letters / Bozor Sobir -- What I Notice / Sylva Gaboudikian -- Consolation / Perveen Shakir -- Night at the Hotel / Shu Ting -- Ways of Living 4 / Hong Yun-suk -- Adornments / Thanh Thao -- Wild Pheasant / Wang Ping -- I Did Not Expect / Ahmad Reza Ahmadi -- Wooden Table / Cecep Syamsul Hari -- Dawn in the Mid-Levels / Laurence Wong -- Saccade / Rishma Dunlop -- Variations on the Theme of Love / Kim Su-yong -- Circle / 'Enayat Jaber -- Envy (Yerance te) / Medakse -- Desire / Mureed Barghouthy -- excerpt from "Flight: In Silver, Red and Black" / Priya Sarukkai Chabria -- To a Man / Fawziyya Abu Khalid -- Barley-Time Summer / So Chong-ju -- Women and Beauty / Abdullah Goran -- Love Is Eternity's River / Muhammed Bennis -- Are You a Snake? / Partow Nooriala -- Hatred / Bassam Hajjar -- Sculptor / Nader Naderpour -- Rocking Horse / Ooka Makoto -- red grapefruit / Agnes Lam -- Quiet Death in a Red Closet / Reetika Vazirani -- Saint Rosa, 1 / Dorothea Rosa Herliany -- Who Struck First? / Zahrad -- Closed Game / Nabila Azzubair -- She and I / Harris Khalique -- Fusion Kitch / Hsia Yu -- Poem Written by the Sea / Hu'u Thinh -- What Is Love? / Nizar Qabbani.