A Voice From the Pit: Brandon Hobson's Where the Dead Sit Talking

By J.C. Hallman

FEB 2018 | Books

Where the Dead Sit Talking is narrated by a weird kid—kind of innocent, kind of ignorant—named Sequoyah. The story unfolds during Sequoyah’s stint as a foster child during his mom’s period in lockup.

HIST ODRES DE PARADISE (13 poems)

By Brandon Shimoda

FEB 2017 | Poetry

Brandon Shimoda's latest book is Evening Oracle (Letter Machine Editions), which received the WCW Award from the Poetry Society of America. His recent writings include essays on the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans in The Margins and The New Inquiry. "HIST ODRES DE PARADISE" were written in southern Taiwan.

GILA RIVER

By Brandon Shimoda

OCT 2018 | Poetry

Brandon Shimoda’s recent books include The Desert (poetry and prose; The Song Cave), Dept. of Posthumous Letters (drawings; text by Dot Devota and Caitie Moore; Argos Books), and The Grave on the Wall (an ancestral memoir, forthcoming from City Lights).