Table of Contents:
  • Prose.
  • Dead stars /
  • Paz Marquez Benitez
  • The mistress /
  • Gina Apostol
  • Shoes /
  • Merlinda Bobis
  • The star /
  • Lilledeshan Bose
  • Magdalena's monologue /
  • Cecilia Manguerra Brainard
  • Consolation /
  • Caroline Cheng
  • Drowning /
  • M. Evelina Galang
  • Tenement lover : no palm trees/in new york city /
  • Jessica Hagedorn
  • Excerpts from "West-Side fugue" /
  • Luba Halicki-Hoffman
  • The reprieve /
  • Susan S. Lara
  • The birth /
  • Reine Arcache Melvin
  • Purita /
  • Cristina Pantoja-Hidalgo
  • Preview /
  • Tara F.T. Sering
  • Angel's story /
  • Michelle M.C. Skinner
  • Thirty seconds /
  • Lara Stapleton
  • Excerpts from An aborted honest autobiography /
  • Eileen Tabios
  • Map for a far place /
  • Linda Ty-Casper
  • Silence /
  • Marianne Villanueva
  • The word-eaters /
  • Jessica Zafra.
  • Poetry.
  • Revolt from hymen ;
  • Querida ;
  • Heloise to Abelard /
  • Angela Manalang Gloria
  • For Jean, on her wedding day ;
  • Ostrich /
  • Cyan Abad
  • I wish I were Baby Spice /
  • Babylu Abaya
  • Mojitos ;
  • In the shadow of La Montaña Sagrada /
  • Jade Viray Afable
  • Millennium bug ;
  • Do you not see the devil /
  • Mila D. Aguilar
  • Russian trinity ;
  • Mouth /
  • Joyce Alcantara
  • Carabao ;
  • Triptych /
  • Shirley Ancheta
  • Premenstrual poem ;
  • Twenty-eight /
  • Nerissa S. Balce
  • Cleaning house ;
  • When the rains came today /
  • Michelle Macaraeg Bautista
  • Barcelonita /
  • Ria de Borja
  • Overdue ;
  • Carnal knowledge /
  • Sofiya Colette Cabalquinto
  • His civil rights /
  • Catalina Cariaga
  • My annual haircut ;
  • A definition of pain ;
  • Short-term memory /
  • Virginia Cerenio
  • Shooting pineapples ;
  • Thieves /
  • Corinne Leilani Domingo
  • Invitation from Latvia ;
  • Acquainted with lightning ;
  • The Canadian border /
  • Marjorie Evasco
  • Marcelina /
  • Jean Vengua Gier
  • Tsismis /
  • Erna Hernandez
  • Home /
  • Leslieann Hobayan
  • Song of the turning body ;
  • Looking back /
  • Luisa A. Igloria
  • From the other side of the sea ;
  • Tribeswoman /
  • Marra PL. Lanot.
  • Poetry.
  • Broken English ;
  • Luzviminda, or Filipinas make such good maids /
  • Fatima Lim-Wilson
  • Three generations /
  • Cristina Martinez-Juan
  • My coke fiends ;
  • Bedtime stories /
  • Farah Montesa
  • Rediscovery ;
  • Shame /
  • Barb Natividad
  • One bite ;
  • Ooty Lake ;
  • Fishbone /
  • Aimee Nezhukumatathl
  • Contract ;
  • Boxes /
  • Yolanda Palis
  • That dance with the water ;
  • A love poem on living together /
  • Celine Salazar Parreñas
  • My barrio by the sea /
  • Cristina Querrer
  • Sirena (the mermaid) sings /
  • Barbara J. Pulmano Reyes
  • 53 ;
  • Our girls ;
  • I am now the chaste specter /
  • Michella Rivera-Gravage
  • How she understands being brown in L.A. Part I, or There just the same ;
  • With the Waianae Range to the right, the Koolaus on our left, the Pacific Ocean lay at our feet /
  • Darlene Rodrigues
  • Ballet lesson ;
  • Lost boy /
  • Melissa S. Salva
  • Ars poetica for intemperate climates ;
  • Remission /
  • Marisa de los Santos
  • Mary Claire ;
  • The old people talking /
  • Nadine L. Sarreal
  • Tincture /
  • Shakira Andrea Sison
  • Safehouses /
  • Irene Suico Soriano
  • Speck of rain roaring ;
  • Between-living ;
  • Prayer by a waterfall in Pagatban ;
  • Bonsai /
  • Edith L. Tiempo
  • Each word : a family history ;
  • Translation /
  • Rowena Torrevillas
  • Presence ;
  • Weightless ;
  • Vigan : images for exorcising /
  • Doris Trinidad.
  • Poetry in translation.
  • Ochre tones ;
  • Tando-huni ;
  • Elemental ;
  • Yuta-tubig-kalayo-hanging /
  • Marjorie Evasco
  • Tahu ;
  • Ginger brew ;
  • Namit raad ;
  • It would be delicious /
  • Ma. Milagros Geremia-Lachica
  • Bulan a naraniag ;
  • Radiant moon ;
  • Dagiti sarsarita ni Uncle Pete ;
  • The stories of Uncle Pete /
  • Luisa A. Igloria
  • Balada ni Lola Amonita ;
  • The ballad of Lola Amonita /
  • Elynia S. Mabanglo
  • Desperation /
  • Leona Florentino.