Say what? -- Vocabulary -- Cookies -- Shell -- Go to where the love is -- Lead -- The reveal -- Kids -- Want to want -- When my daughter asks me to check and make sure racists can't come in and kill us -- Our Minnesota -- Peeking through the back door of the commodore -- Refugees from the Prom Center, the eighties -- The why -- To combust -- Knockoff -- The measure -- Poem for Ahmed Al-Jumaili -- List of notable Asian American poets -- 467 / 500 -- Frank's Nursery and Crafts -- "Allies" who think they're the chosen ones -- Are people of color as bad or who's bad or bad meaning good -- Bad driver, or Asian American activists who talk about their own people like they are "other" -- It was flame -- Oriental flavor -- Token exceptional Asian in liberal multiculturalism -- At dinner -- April 30, 2014 -- Apple-red pathfinder -- No question -- Villain/elle: Shimomura cross over in the flat of the night -- Rolling through a four-way -- Bau Cua Ca cop. -- Future letter to daughter apologizing for when I caved to her request and brought her to Barbie's dreamhouse at Mall of America -- Broken things -- Document -- Lights -- In the dark -- Careful what you wish for -- Tourist with daughter -- Contour -- Full contact -- Geek triptych -- Balsa Wood Free Association -- For all heartbroken pizza delivery boys -- Theresa, I think -- Incomplete / Abridged -- Therapist 4 -- Chess pride, Waverly style -- Night of the living -- Mouse -- For Brandon Lacy Campos -- Well then -- In Harbor. III. -- Ego-tripping as self-defense mechanism for refugee kids who got their names clowned on -- Not a silverfish -- 104 Being Asian in America -- Untitled / Fathers -- Thousand Star Hotel -- Refugerequiem.
Summary, etc.:
"Thousand Star Hotel confronts the silence around racism, police brutality, and the invisibility of the Asian American urban poor. From "with thanks to Sahra Nguyen for the refugee style slogan": They give the kids candy to bet. My daughter loses the first four rounds, she's a quiet wire as they take her candy away, piece by piece. When she finally wins, I ask if she wants to play again. No! she shouts, grabbing her candy, I want to go home! True refugee style: take everything you got and run with it. Bao Phi is a National Poetry Slam finalist"--