Volume 13:1, Winter 2012 FLORICANTO ISSUE Introduction by Francisco Aragón, Guest Editor Table of Contents Andre Yang, Why I Feel the Way I Do About SB 1070 Roberto Vargas, Solitude of Diaspora Dorianne Laux, Nearly Free Regie Cabico, Mango Poem Barbara Jane Reyes, My California Sarah Browning, Step Crushing on the Wild Thyme Oscar Bermeo, the ice worker lives Susan Deer Cloud, He Told Me Hedy Treviño, A Poem Dedicated to My Grandfather, José García Juan Felipe Herrera, busman Odilia Galván Rodríguez, Los Santos Gitanos Pamela Uschuk, 2011, The Year of the Metal Rabbit Abel Salas, Chook Son, Arizona Luis Alberto Ambroggio, US Landscapes/Paisajes de los Estados Unidos Dan Vera, If You Want to Purify America's Textbooks of Ethnic Studies Marilyn Nelson, Honor Guard Joseph Ross, If You Leave Your Shoes Carmen Gimenez Smith, Have You Made Anything Luis J. Rodríguez, Piece by Piece Tara Betts, Gunfire & Snowfall Randall Horton, For All Those Who Benefitted from Slaves and the So-Called Illegal Alien Francisco X. Alarcón, Whale Songs Carmen Calatayud, An Offering of Strength Martín Espada, Isabel's Corrido Rich Villar, Always Here Aracelis Girmay, English Class This special issue of Beltway Poetry Quarterly is co-sponsored by Letras Latinas, a program of the Institute for Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame.