Introduction, Edwidge Danticat ix Present Past Future, Marc

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Introduction, Edwidge Danticat
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CHILDHOOD
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Present Past Future, Marc Christophe
Dyaspora, Joanne Hyppolite
Restavèk, Jean-Robert Cadet
Homelands, Marie-Hélène Laforest
Bonne Année, Jean-Pierre Benoît
Haiti: A Memory Journey, Assotto Saint
Black Crows and Zombie Girls, Barbara Sanon
MIGRATION
Another Ode to Salt, Danielle Legros Georges
America, We Are Here, Dany Laferrière
A Cage of Words, Joel Dreyfuss
The Red Dress, Patricia Benoît
Something in the Water
Reflections of a People's
Journey, Nikol Payen
Haiti: A Cigarette Burning at Both Ends,
Marie Ketsia Théodore-Pharel
My Suitcases, Maude Heurtelou
The White Wife, Garry Pierre-Pierre
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You and Me against the world, Martine Bury
Mashe Petyon, Katia Ulysse
Pour Water on My Head: A Meditation on a Life of
Painting and Poetry, Marilene Phipps
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GENERATION
Chainstitching, Phebus Etienne
Made Outside, Francie Latour
The Million Man March, Anthony Calypso
In Search of a Name, Miriam Neptune
Reporting Silence, Leslie Casimir
Vini Nou Bel, Annie Grégroire
Home I s . . . , Sophia Cantave
Map Viv: My Life as a Nyabinghi Razette,
Marie Nadine Pierre
Exiled, Sandy Alexandre
RETURN
Lost Near the Sea, Leslie Chassagne
Adieu Miles and Good-bye Democracy, Patrick Sylvain
Looking for Columbus, Michel-Rolph Trouillot
Do Something for Your Soul, Go to Haiti,
Babette Wainwright
A Poem about Why I Can't Wait, Gina Ulysse
FUTURE
Lazarus Rising: An Open Letter to My Daughter,
MyriamJ.A. Chancy
Contributors
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