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Table of Contents

Poetry

Chris Santiago

• Tula

Janine Joseph

• Exchanging Vows

Louisa A. Igloria

• Huevos de Amor
• Collision

Shayok Misha Chowdhury

• Kali Wakes in the Crematorium

Hiromi Itō

• from Wild Grass on the Riverbank. translated by Jeffrey Angles

Mia Ayumi Malhotra

• Crossing
• [This kind of morning]
• This Is Not a Story
• Interior Security Regulations II
• On Terror

 

Interview

Gary Snyder interviewed by Shawna Yang Ryan

 

Interview

Garrett Hongo interviewed by Michael Collier

 

Prose

Varun Gauri

• The Assistant Secretary

David Mura

• Isamu Noguchi: Fragments From An Unwritten Memoir

Sejal Shah

• Castle, Fort, Lookout, House

Chaya Bhuvaneswar

• White Dancing Elephants

Aaliyah Bilal

• Tameka/Berry Farms

Alex Vallejo

• I Hear My Name Said Back to Me

Leila Farsakh

• Oslo’s Coffin: My Father and Palestine

 

Book Reviews

Liu Xiaobo’s No Enemies, No Hatred: Selected Essays and Poems, review by Jeffrey Yang

 

Harry Stephen Keeler’s Y. Cheung, Business Detective, review by Ed Park

 

My Postwar Life, review by Anna Kazumi Stahl

 

Image & Word

Bao Phi

• response to Roger Shimomura’s Shimomura Crossing the Delaware

Marianne Villanueva

• response to Hye Yeon Nam’s Self Portrait: Eating, Walking, Sitting, Drinking

Marie Myung-Ok Lee

• response to CYJO’s The KYOPO Project

Kazim Ali

• response to Hong Chun Zhang’s My Life Strands

Anna Kazumi Stahl

• response to Shizu Saldamando’s Cat and Carm

David Henry Hwang

• response to Tam Tran’s My Call to Arms

Garrett Hongo

• response to Satomi Shirai’s Itch

 

Dispatches from the Symposium

Floyd Cheung, Douglas S. Ishii, Laura Kina, Shilpa Davé, Alexandra Chang, Vincent N. Pham & Joseph Jonghyun Jeon

 

After the Symposium: A Chain of Responses

Juliana Hu Pegues

• response to Roger Shimomura’s Shimomura Crossing the Delaware

Kyle “Guante” Tran Myhre

• response to Roger Shimomura’s Shimomura Crossing the Delaware

Giles Li

• response to Roger Shimomura’s Shimomura Crossing the Delaware

Brian Ascalon Roley

• response to Hye Yeon Nam’s Self Portrait: Eating, Walking, Sitting, Drinking

Angie Kim

• response to CYJO’s The KYOPO Project

Lillian Howan

• response to CYJO’s The KYOPO Project

Amalia Sato

• response to Shizu Saldamando’s Cat and Carm

Paula Hoyos Hattori

• response to Shizu Saldamando’s Cat and Carm

Maximiliano Matayoshi

• response to Shizu Saldamando’s Cat and Carm

Brian Komei Dempster

• response to Satomi Shirai’s Itch

Roy Osamu Kamada

• response to Satomi Shirai’s Itch

Molly Gaudry

• response to Satomi Shirai’s Itch

 

Contributors’ Notes