"Go home!" is always a slur, but often also an impossibility; this collection explores the words' personal and political dimensions.

"Editor's Note" (Rowan Hisayo Buchanan - London, UK)
"Foreword" (Viet Thanh Nguyen - Los Angeles, CA; teaches at University of Southern California)

"Release" (Alexander Chee - Hanover, NH; teaches at Dartmouth College)

"Things that Remind Me of Home" (Kimiko Hahn - New York, NY; teaches at Queens College)

"Mothers, Lock Up Your Daughters Because They Are Terrifying" (Alice Sola Kim - New York, NY)

"Ramadan Red White and Blue" (Mohja Kahf - Fayetteville, AR; teaches at University of Arkansas)

"My Grandmother Washes Her Feet in the Sink of the Bathroom at Sears" (Mohja Kahf)

"The Place Where I Live Is Different Because I Live There" (Wendy Xu - New York, NY)

"Sit Bones" (Sharlene Teo - London, UK)

"Magritte" (Wo Chan - Brooklyn, NY)

"what do i make of my face / except" (Wo Chan)

"Aama, 1978-2015" (Muna Gurung - Kathmandu, Nepal)

"Delicately, I Beg of You" (Muhammad Amirul bin Muhamad - Singapore)

"The Words Honey and Moon" (Jennifer Tseng - Brookline, MA)

"Post Trauma / Costero / Pygmy Right Whale / ???????? / Kalapani" (Rajiv Mohabir - Honolulu, HI)

"The Unintended" (Gina Apostol - New York, NY)

"Meet a Muslim" (Fariha Roisin - Montreal, Canada)

"Elegy" (Esme Weijun Wang - San Francisco, CA)

"Cul-de-Sac" (Chaya Babu - Brooklyn, NY)

"Esmeralda" (Mia Alvar - New York, NY)

"Love Poems for the Border Patrol" (Amitava Kumar - Poughkeepsie, NY; teaches at Vassar College)

"Blue Tears" (Karissa Chen - New York, NY)

"Tigress" (Rowan Hisayo Buchanan)

"The Stained Veil" (Gaiutra Bahadur - New York, NY)

"I'm Charlie Tuna" (Jason Koo - Brooklyn, NY; teaches at Quinnipiac University)

"Bon Chul Koo and the Hall of Fame" (Jason Koo)

"Chicken & Stars" (T Kira Madden - New York, NY)

"For Mitsuye Yamada on her 90th Birthday" (Marilyn Chin - San Diego, CA; teaches at San Diego State University)

"The Faintest Echo of Our Language" (Chang-Rae Lee - Stanford, CA; teaches at Stanford University)