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Summer 2004
Volume 26, Number 1

Cover Art
Don Michael Swartzentruber |
Rembrandt Mennonites on Holiday |
Fiction
Kelly Magee |
All the America You Want |
Terese Svoboda |
’70s Lilies |
Daniel A. Hoyt |
The Chez du Pancakes |
Solon Timothy Woodward |
A Thousand Autumns |
Sejal Shah |
How to Make Your Mother Cry |
Nonfiction
Viet Dinh |
The Nightcrawler’s Guide to Saigon (ca. 1998) |
Rafael Torch |
Nexus |
Richard Blanco |
Miami during La Revolución |
Faith Adiele |
Black Men |
Poetry
Flat American Waltz |
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Cultural Sellout |
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Christian Moody |
The Secret of My Misogyny |
Ted Mathys |
Shots |
Timothy Liu |
God Save the Queen |
God Save the Queen Redux |
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Bob Hicok |
War story |
Roy Jacobstein |
Sighting |
The Mystery and Melancholy of the Street |
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Peach Time, Nepal |
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Alice Friman |
Genealogy |
Kwame Dawes |
Fat Man, Little Boy |
Tyehimba Jess |
leadbelly in angola prison: down again |
Daniel Lin |
Ars Poetica |
Adrian Matejka |
Affirmative Action |
Helen Cho |
Carrying |
Miss California |
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Aimee Nezhukumatathil |
When All of My Cousins Are Married |
Sean Hill |
Hands 1921 |
Susan Blackwell Ramsey |
Tell Me If You’ve Heard This One |
Matthew Thorburn |
Road Movie |
Christian Campbell |
Legba |
Dan Kaplan |
Ordinarily #2 |
Bill Translates Hungarian |
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Eleanor Stanford |
South Dakota Ghazal |
Richard Blanco |
We’re Not Going to Malta . . . |
Missouri between Venice and Paris |
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Mendi Lewis Obadike |
Carpool and the Tape Deck |
One Black Girlhood |
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Emmanuel Moses |
from The Year of the Dragon
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Lucia Perillo |
Juarez |
Wormhole Theory |
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Brigitte Byrd |
Festive Uncertainty |
Loud Darkness |
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Simone White |
Words for Crow Jane |
Lunch with Suits in a Black Dress |
Interview
Indiana Review |
An Interview with Marilyn Chin |
Art between Cultures
Gene Yang |
American Born Chinese: Jin |
Tak Toyoshima |
Oriental |
Ethnic Foods |
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Secret Identity |
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Souvenir World |
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Lisa Lee Peterson |
Fourfathers |
The Four Virtues / Four Generations |
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Artur Silva |
Bezerra da Silva |
Pele #2 |
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Phoebe Farris |
Before Assimilation |
Don Michael Swartzentruber |
Just as I Am |
Self-Portrait: The Grotesque Facing the Sublime |
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Jeremy Hogan |
My Blind Grandpa Listening to the 2000 Recount |
Thanksgiving with My Grandparents |
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Chris Lanier |
Scarf Mania |
Sanjay Shah, Sandeep Sood,
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for them hollow days |
for them american indian americans |
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Rachel Masilamani |
Two Kinds of People |
Lea-Ann Bigelow |
Notes of Art |
Reviews
Stephen Fife-Adams |
The Body of Brooklyn, David Lazar |
Joanna Lin Want |
Miracle Fruit, Aimee Nezhukumatathil |
Jarret Keene |
Notebooks of a Chili Verde Smuggler, Juan Felipe Herrera |
Robin Kish |
Ten Little Indians, Sherman Alexie |
Evie Shockley |
The World is Round, Nikky Finney |
Loyal Miles |
The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini |
Mary Austin Speaker |
Death by Renaissance: Poems, Paola Corso |
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