Brandon Shimoda

Brandon Shimoda has been a member of Linktree for 4 years and joined in October 2021. Resources brandonshimoda has populated their site with include: • Grains of Rice, a poem (in new sinews, issue_9) • Friends of Wadi Foquin (Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank) • Concentration Camps USA, Part 4 • Concentration Camps USA, Part 3 • Trees, poetic hemorrhage, eating breath / Books I read in 2025 (Vanishing Clarity #2) • Paper Flowers, from The Afterlife Is Letting Go • Video: reading for the Lunch Poems series at UC Berkeley (April 2024) • Video: reading with Jami Nakamura Lin, Troy Osaki, Brynn Saito at Densho (October 2023) • Video: reading with Emily Lee Luan at City Lights, summer 2023 • songs (1996-2011) • R.I.P. • Jawdat Fakhreddine's “Effaced…”, tr. Huda Fakhreddine • lifeline4gaza • NO ARTWASHING OF GENOCIDE (Korean Cultural Alliance for Palestine) • We Have Been Here Before | The Nation • READ/SIGN the Wakasa Memorial Committee OPEN LETTER • GAZA FUNDS: connecting people to crowdfunding campaigns for individuals and families from Gaza • The Sameer Project (direct aid campaigns in Gaza) • Japanese American Incarceration for Children | Brick/Literary Hub • Crips for eSims for Gaza • six poems from Rest House, at Changes Review • Workshops 4 Gaza Bookstore – Open Books: A Poem Emporium • Day of Remembrance for Japanese American Incarceration, February 19, 2022 | Colorado College • WRITERS AGAINST THE WAR ON GAZA • The Process of a Drawing Being Made | University of Arizona Poetry Center • The Key | A magazine from the Palestine Festival of Literature | The Key • Assistant Professor of Creative Writing, Colorado College • Writing Gaza • The Hiroshima Library • Huda Fakhreddine, A House of Poetry • Mary Turfah, I’m Not Done With You (The Baffler) • Who's Profiting from ICE? • Concentration Camps USA, Part 2 • Concentration Camps USA, Part 1 • The Afterlife Is Letting Go @ Workshops 4 Gaza • The path of totality / You are losing time (VANISHING CLARITY newsletter) • VANISHING CLARITY (newsletter) • Alien Enemies (essay) at The Baffler • Brick Literary podcast conversation with Kyo Maclear • The Gate of Memory: Poems by Descendants of Nikkei Wartime Incarceration (Haymarket, 2025) • The Afterlife Is Letting Go (City Lights, 2024) • Hydra Medusa (Nightboat Books, 2023) • The Grave on the Wall (City Lights, 2019) • The Desert (The Song Cave, 2018) • Evening Oracle (Letter Machine Editions/Fonograf, 2015) • To look at the sea is to become what one is: An Etel Adnan Reader (Nightboat, 2014) • Instagram