Dry Bed of the River of Souls
A poet reckons with the afterlife of the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII.
Brandon Shimoda
Brandon Shimoda is the author of several books of poetry, including O Bon (Litmus Press, 2011) and Evening Oracle (Letter Machine Editions, 2015), which won the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. The Grave on the Wall has been longlisted for the 2020 PEN Open Book Award.
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Podcasts
The Afterlife of Japanese American Wartime Incarceration
Poet Brandon Shimoda explores the ongoing legacies of the US government’s mass incarceration of Japanese immigrants and Japanese Americans during World War II.
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