Foreword : they carry butterflies in their hands / Juan Felipe Herrera
Introduction / Francisco X. Alarcón and Odilia Galván Rodríguez
Para los nueve del capitolio = For the Capitol Nine / Invocation / Borderless compassion / Francisco X. Alarcón
Poem with a phrase of Isherwood / Francisco Aragón
End of an affair / Cathy Arellano
Nestorius niños y niñas = Our children / Jorge Tetl Argueta
Tattoo SB 1070 / Adrián Arias
Looking through chain link at McAllen Station / Víctor Ávila
La regla de los ladrones = The law of thieves / Avotcja
Reasonable suspicion : the conqueror's dream / Devreaux Baker
Lightning on a black night over the Chuska Mountains / Kristopher Barney
Slaughters and shifts and migrations : Arizona / Virginia Barrett
Listen child / Esmeralda Bernal
The flag of touch / Sarah Browning
Border ghost of Sonora / Awakening at night / Carmen Calatáyud
Hoy mujeres y hombres = Today women and men / Xánath Caraza
On the border, we dream / Héctor Carbajal
Niño traga fuegos / Elizabeth Cazessús
Olmecan eyes / Lorna Dee Cervantes
Del puente al arco / Ana Chig
Reconsider the lilies = Considerad de nuevo las azucenas / Jabez W. Churchill
The new West / Antoinette Nora Claypoole
Sonnet for police officers charged with enforcing SB 1070 / Karen S. Córdova
To be a pocha or not to be / Iris De Anda
Capitol poetry / Nephtalí De León
Your America, my Turtle Island / Susan Deer Cloud
Before the world wakes / Two missing men, one white, one brown, one rich, one not / So rich / Elena Díaz Björquist
There is a fence around my heart / James Downs
A ceremony for reclaiming language / Qwo-Li Driskill
Border crossing / Sharon Elliot
La voz del inmigrante = Immigrant voices / Mario Ángel Escobar
Isabel's corrido / Martín Espada
Giving voice / Border inquest blues / Collecting thoughts from the Universe Odilia Galván Rodríguez.
Immigrant crossing / Daniel García
The ones who live on / La Virgen de las Calles / Nancy Aidé González
Mi bandera = My flag / Grandchildren of the United Fruit Company / Sonia Gutiérrez
Cerrando Herida / Israel Francisco Haros López
Sand and bone desert spark / Gabriel Hartley
Juan Mercado / Ralph Haskins
Kim ayu (Vení pa'ca) / Claudia D. Hernández
Where we belong / In response to the man who asked, "Why do your people march fro everything?" / Andrea Hernández Holm
Arizona green (Manifesto #1070) / Juan Felipe Herrera
A prayer to Santa Cebolla / Mari Herreras
Our children are not anchors / Susana de Jesús Huerta
Grave song for immigrant soldier / Aurora Levins Morales
The same thing / The remembered / Genny Lim
The border crossed u / Mark Lipman
Trespasser shoes / César Love
Insist and resist / My sweet dream, my living nightmare : adobe walls / Manuel Lozano
On issues of aliens and immigration / Devorah Major
Nunca, nunca, nunca : the Corrido of south Phoenix / Andrea García Mauk
Arizona Goddam! / Joseph McNair
Rimas contra las cárceles de papeles / Octaviano Merecias-cuevas
The Great Wall of America / James O. Michael
The dream that sleeps with power : a sonnet for the Dream Act / Edith Morris-Vásquez
Haiku poems for social justice / Joe Navarro
Ghost town : 24 hours B4 Arizona's SB 1070 / Gerardo Pacheco Matus
Outlaw zone / Melinda Palacio
Fading memories / Carlos Parada Ayala
I am America / Ramón Piñero
Reasonable suspicion / Manuel Ramos
Who cares? / Here to stay / Sin fronteras = Beyond borders / Maritza Rivera
Diluyamos las fronteras / Margarita Robleda.
That Indian man you see on the hospital bed / Roberto Cintli Rodríguez
Lo prohibido / Renato Rosaldo
Bratach Bána = White flags = Banderas blancas / Gabriel Rosenstock
If you leave your shoes / Joseph Ross
Chook Son, Arizona / Abel Salas
Praise to all the poets responding to SB 107 / Raúl Sánchez
Be fearless : choose love / Nina Serrano
Desaparecidos / Tom Sheldon
The sacred stone / Seven ears of maize I do bring / Hedy García Treviño
Borders / Tara Evonne Trudell
Arizona lamentation / Luis Alberto Urrea
Stalking the divine under a desert full moon / Pam Uschuk
No consolation for Lidia / Norma Liliana Valdez
For a friend who objects to comparing the events leading up to the Holocaust with what is happening today in Arizona / Richard Vargas
Emigro / Carlos Vázquez Segura
Los desaparecidos / Edward A. Vidaurre
Breathing while brown / Alama Luz Villanueva
Always here / Rich Villar
May Day is not the day to shoot at people who work for you / George Wallace
Sestina for illegal widows / Lori A. Williams
We are the ones we have been waiting for / Stephanie Yan
Why I feel the way I do about SB 1070 / Andre Yang