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Brandon Shimoda

Brandon Shimoda
Brandon Shimoda is a yonsei poet/writer, and the author of several books, most recently The Grave on the Wall (City Lights, 2019), which received the PEN Open Book Award. He has two books forthcoming: Hydra Medusa (Nightboat Books, 2023) and a book on the afterlife of Japanese American incarceration (City Lights, 2024), which received a Creative Nonfiction grant from the Whiting Foundation.


Archaeology or Exclusion? Brandon Shimoda on Saving a Japanese American WWII Monument

The Author of “The Afterlife Is Letting Go” Remembers James Hatsuaki Wakasa and the Debate Over a Topaz Sculpture’s Removal
December 11, 2024  By Brandon Shimoda
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Japanese American Incarceration for Children: Brandon Shimoda on Reading with His Daughter

“I did not grow up with children’s books about Japanese American incarceration. There were not many.”
August 18, 2022  By Brandon Shimoda
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5 Artists Who Explore Japanese-American Incarceration and Internment

Brandon Shimoda on Heather Nagami, Rea Tajiri, Aisuke Kondo, Brynn Saito, and Kevin Miyazaki
August 8, 2019  By Brandon Shimoda
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Finding Photos of My Grandfather in a Japanese Internment Camp

Brandon Shimoda on Seeking Ancestral Connections Through Remnants on the Wall at Fort Missoula
July 30, 2019  By Brandon Shimoda
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Soul Mates: A Poem by Brandon Shimoda

From His New Collection The Desert
September 4, 2018  By Brandon Shimoda
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