Contents

1. Acknowledgements

2. How to Use This Book

3. Polyphony: A Meditation

4. List of Hashtags

5. I. Reader

   1. "As a Child in Haiti, I Was Taught to Despise My Language and Myself,” Michel DeGraff

   2. “Asters and Goldenrod,” Robin Wall Kimmerer

   3. “Connecting the Dots,” Bassey Ikpi

   4. “The Contract Says: We’d Like the Conversation to be Bilingual,” Ada Limón

   5. “Grammar, Identity, and the Dark Side of the Subjunctive,” Phuc Tran

   6. “Gun Bubbles,” Margrét Ann Thors

   7. “How to Tame a Wild Tongue,” Gloria Anzaldúa

   8. “Place Name: Oracabessa,” Kei Miller

   9. “Puerto Rican Obituary,” Pedro Pietri

   10. “Saving a Language You’re Learning to Speak,” NPR Codeswitch

   11. “Skin Feeling,” Sofia Samatar

   12. “Three Ways to Speak English,” Jamila Lyiscott

   13. "To Speak is to Blunder," Yiyun Li

   14. “The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action,” Audre Lorde

   15. “Vão/Vòng A Conversation with Katrina Dodson,” Madhua Kaza

6. II. Explorations

   1. Against the Grain: Listening for Controversy

   2. Aphoristic Translation

   3. Body as Metaphoric Space

   4. Building an Opinion

   5. Collage: Found, Donated, Repeated with Difference

   6. Critical Learning Reflection

   7. Dialogue Over Time: A New Boogaloo: “How Beautiful We Really Are”

   8. Emotion in Language

   9. Historical Contexts

   10. Indigenous Perspectives of Western Science

   11. Insufficient Definitions

   12. Juxtapositions of Silence

   13. Language Life Story

   14. Music Trails

   15. Parsing Themes

   16. Poetry and Science: Epistemology through Language

   17. The Point of Education?

   18. Reading the “Fine Print”

   19. Self Reflection, Collective Change

   20. Tracing Citations

   21. Transculturation, Language and South-South Migration

   22. Translations Across and Within Languages

   23. Work Culture Reexamined

7. Contributors

8. Works Used In This Book