The immigration experience
Sailing unknown seas / Etsu Sugimoto
from America is in the heart / Carlos Bulosan
from East goes west / Younghill Kang
from Island / Anonymous
Coming to America / Akemi Kikumura
from South wind changing / Jade Ngoc Quang Huynh
Two lives / Shirley Geok-lin Lim
Assimilation / Eugene Gloria
How I could interpret the events of my youth, events I do not remember except in dreams / Christian Langworthy.

Asian affiliations
Great brown river / Meena Alexander
The lives of great men / N.V.M. Gonzalez
The arranged marriage / Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
from Dictee / Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
San chi / Hilary Tham
The cleaving / Li-Young Lee
from Dogeaters / Jessica Hagedorn
The smell / Ginu Kamani
The white horse / Nguyen Ba Trac
Lunch vignettes / Svati Shah.

Struggles and recognitions
from Thousand pieces of gold / Ruthanne Lum McCunn
Leaves from the mental portfolio of an Eurasian / Sui Sin Far
from America is in the the heart / Carlos Bulosan
Guilty on both counts / Mitsuy Yamada
from No-no boy / John Okada
In this heat / Willyce Kim
The wash / Philip Kan Gotanda
We cannot walk in our neighborhood / James Freeman
shrapnel shards on blue water / Le Thi Diem Thuy.

The individual inside/against the ethnic community
from All I asking for is my body / Milton Murayama
The chessmen / Toshio Mori
And the soul shall dance / Wakako Yamauchi
Before time / Juliet Kono
No-name woman / Maxine Hong Kingston
ABCs / Genny Lim
Transformation / Lydia Minatoya
Parts / Lois-Ann Yamanaka
The management of grief / Bharati Mukherjee
Nobody knows / Quang Bao.

Gender identities, gender relationships
from Eat a bowl of tea / Louis Chu
On discovery / Maxine Hong Kingston
Hector Pueblo / Augustus Samuel Mein-Sun (Gus) Lee
from Homebase / Shawn Wong
Forgiveness from heaven / Jade Sow Wong
from Farewell to Manzanar / Jeanne Wakatsuki, James D. Houston
Sari petticoats / Talat Abbasi
from American knees / Shawn Wong
Desire as the gesture between us / Timothy Liu
First mango / Vince Gotera.

Parents and families
Best quality / Amy Tan
Poem for my father / Eric Chock
The gift / Li-Young Lee
from Donald Duck / Frank Chin
Labor of love / Jeff Tagami
The youngest daughter / Cathy Song
So what; who cares? / Wakako Yamauchi
Breaking tradition / Janice Mirikitani
Gardens we have left / David Mura
The eve of the spirit festival / Lan Samantha Chang
The visitation / Jaime Jacinto.

American place and displacement
We are Americans now, we live in the tundra / Marilyn Chin
from Clay walls / Kim Ronyoung
from The coffin tree / Wendy Law-Yone
Displacement / David Wong Louie
Scent of apples / Bienvenido Santos
from Monkey bridge / Lan Cao
Our fathers / M. Evelina Galang
A man of steel / Gish Jen
Yellow light / Garrett Hongo
Finding the center / Lawson Fusao Inada
A theory about dancing / Diana Chang.