
Volume 36, Issue 4
Entries
fiction
Witness: The Gangster We Are All Looking For
By Le Thi Diem Thuy
poetry
How Should I Say This?
By Robert Dow
fiction
Stopping the Jesus
By John Hodgen
fiction
Notes From When the War Was Over: Remembering the Embargo
By Kevin Bowen
poetry
Vietnam and the "Voice Within": Public and Private History in Yusef Komunyakaa's 'Dien Cai Dau'
By Kevin Stein
fiction
My Father, Dressed Like Trees
By Carol Potter
poetry
On Palm Sunday; Widow Sleep
By Robyn Heisey-Clark
poetry
Judith
By Henry H. Roth
fiction
El Coro: A Chorus of Latino/Latina Poets
By Martin Espada
poetry
El Coro: Liquid Matter; Talking to the Waves
By Pedro Lopez Adorno
poetry
El Coro: Los desaparecidos (The Disappeared)
By Marjorie Agosin
nonfiction
El Coro: Psalm for Bacalao; Sonnets for the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse; Long Time Among Us
By Jack Agueros
art
El Coro: Nuyorican One Wing Olive-Skin Angel
By Miguel Algarin
poetry
El Coro: The Way it Sounds; The Dashboard Virgencita; The Lost and Found Senoritas
By Julia Alvarez
poetry
El Coro: Papo, Who'd Wanted To Be An Artist; Reform
By Naomi Ayala
poetry
El Coro: Traicion; Occupaciones de la critica (Betrayal; The Critics' Trade)
By Alicia Borinsky
nonfiction
El Coro: El Chicle
By Ana Castillo
poetry
El Coro: Tango for the Broom; It Occurs to Me I am the Creative/Destructive Goddess Coatlicue
By Sandra Cisneros
nonfiction
El Coro: The Tip
By Judith Ortiz Cofer
poetry
El Coro: Islandis; The Lower East Side of Manhattan
By Victor Hernandez Cruz
nonfiction
El Coro: Do Not Put Dead Monkeys in the Freezer
By Martin Espada
poetry
El Coro: Puerto Rican Discovery #12: Token Vows
By Sandra Maria Esteves
poetry
El Coro: La sombra de la culpa; Requiem (The Shadow of Guilt; Requiem)
By Rosario Ferre
nonfiction
El Coro: La Terraza
By Magdalena Gomez-gomolka
poetry
El Coro: Ese; The Cost of Family; These Days
By Ray Gonzalez
fiction
El Coro: Aphrodisiacal Dinner Jacket; The Anthropomorphic Cabinet
By Juan Felipe Herrera
nonfiction
El Coro: Aurelio's Vengeance, Puerto Rico, 1901; Jibaros
By Rick Kearns
poetry
El Coro: Imperialism; We Talk About Spanish; Milagros
By Demetria Martinez
nonfiction
El Coro: The Prodigal Son Loses His Wife; The Prodigal Son Buys a New Car; Starfish
By Dionisio Martinez
nonfiction
El Coro: The Translator at the Reception for Latin American Writers; Foreign Heart
By Julio Marzan
poetry
Honduran Ghosts
By Pat Mora
poetry
El Coro: Zen--Where I'm From; Hubcaps and Hi-Fi; What It Was Like
By Leroy Quintana
nonfiction
El Coro: Pompeii and the Uses of the Imagination; The Essay Examination for What You Have Read in the Course World Religions; Moving Our Misery
By Gary Soto
nonfiction
El Coro: The Wood Sculptor; Xagua Castle, Cienfuiegos
By Virginia Suarez
poetry
Estos arboles (These Trees)
By Clemente Soto Velez
poetry
El Coro: En el claraoscuro de los anos; Solo se que ahora (In the Chiaroscuro of the Years; I Only Know That Now)
By Tino Villanueva
fiction
El Coro: Service Economy Fantastique
By Michael Veve
nonfiction
El Coro: Well-Fare With No Address
By Enid Santiago Welch
poetry
The Grim Enchantment of 'It's a Wonderful Life'
By Lorraine Mortimer
poetry
My Father's Gift
By Edwina Trentham
poetry
Dona Isobel
By Frank Espada
Table of Contents
Witness: The Gangster We Are All Looking For,
Non-Fiction by Le Thi Diem Thuy
How Should I Say This?, Poetry by Robert Dow
Stopping the Jesus, Poetry by John Hodgen
Notes From When the War Was Over:
Remembering the Embargo,
Non-Fiction by Kevin Bowen
Vietnam and the "Voice Within": Public and Private
History in Yusef Komunyakaa's 'Dien Cai Dau',
Non-Fiction by Kevin Stein
My Father, Dressed Like Trees,
Poetry by Carol Potter
On Palm Sunday; Widow Sleep,
Poetry by Robyn Heisey-Clark
Judith, Fiction by Henry H. Roth
El Coro: A Chorus of Latino/Latina Poets,
Non-Fiction by Martin Espada
El Coro: Liquid Matter; Talking to the Waves,
Poetry by Pedro Lopez Adorno
El Coro: Los desaparecidos (The Disappeared),
Poetry by Marjorie Agosin, Translated by
Celeste Kostopulos-Cooperman
El Coro: Psalm for Bacalao; Sonnets for the Four Horsemen
of the Apocalypse; Long Time Among Us,
Poetry by Jack Agueros
El Coro: Nuyorican One Wing Olive-Skin Angel,
Poetry by Miguel Algarin
El Coro: The Way it Sounds; The Dashboard Virgencita;
The Lost and Found Senoritas, Poetry by Julia Alvarez
El Coro: Papo, Who'd Wanted To Be An Artist; Reform,
Poetry by Naomi Ayala
El Coro: Traicion; Occupaciones de la critica
(Betrayal; The Critics' Trade),
Poetry by Alicia Borinsky, Translated by Cola Franzen
El Coro: El Chicle, Poetry by Ana Castillo
El Coro: Tango for the Broom; It Occurs to Me I am the Creative/Destructive Goddess Coatlicue,
Poetry by Sandra Cisneros
El Coro: The Tip, Poetry by Judith Ortiz Cofer
El Coro: Islandis; The Lower East Side of Manhattan,
Poetry by Victor Hernandez Cruz
El Coro: Do Not Put Dead Monkeys in the Freezer,
Poetry by Martin Espada
El Coro: Puerto Rican Discovery #12: Token Vows,
Poetry by Sandra Maria Esteves
El Coro: La sombra de la culpa; Requiem
(The Shadow of Guilt; Requiem),
Poetry by Rosario Ferre
El Coro: La Terraza,
Poetry by Magdalena Gomez-gomolka
El Coro: Ese; The Cost of Family; These Days,
Poetry by Ray Gonzalez
El Coro: Aphrodisiacal Dinner Jacket;
The Anthropomorphic Cabinet,
Poetry by Juan Felipe Herrera
El Coro: Aurelio's Vengeance, Puerto Rico, 1901; Jibaros,
Poetry by Rick Kearns
El Coro: Imperialism; We Talk About Spanish; Milagros,
Poetry by Demetria Martinez
El Coro: The Prodigal Son Loses His Wife;
The Prodigal Son Buys a New Car; Starfish,
Poetry by Dionisio Martinez
El Coro: The Translator at the Reception for
Latin American Writers; Foreign Heart,
Poetry by Julio Marzan
El Coro: Honduran Ghosts,
Poetry by Pat Mora
El Coro: Zen--Where I'm From; Hubcaps and Hi-Fi;
What It Was Like, Poetry by Leroy Quintana
El Coro: Pompeii and the Uses of the Imagination;
The Essay Examination for What You Have Read
in the Course World Religions; Moving Our Misery,
Poetry by Gary Soto
El Coro: The Wood Sculptor; Xagua Castle, Cienfuiegos,
Poetry by Virginia Suarez
Estos arboles (These Trees),
Poetry by Clemente Soto Velez,
Translated by Camilo Perez-Bustillo and Martin Espada
El Coro: En el claraoscuro de los anos; Solo se que ahora (In the Chiaroscuro of the Years; I Only Know That Now),
Poetry by Tino Villanueva, Translated by James Hogard
El Coro: Service Economy Fantastique,
Poetry by Michael Veve
El Coro: Well-Fare With No Address,
Poetry by Enid Santiago Welch
The Grim Enchantment of 'It's a Wonderful Life',
Non-Fiction by Lorraine Mortimer
My Father's Gift, Poetry by Edwina Trentham
Dona Isobel, Cover Art by Frank Espada