Experience live poetry readings from The Gate of Memory: Poems by Descendants of Nikkei Wartime Incarceration, an anthology edited by Brynn Saito and Brandon Shimoda (Haymarket Books, 2025). This collection pays tribute to the 150,000 people incarcerated by the United States and Canada during WWII, offering poetic reflections from those living in the aftermath of this enduring historical injustice. 

The anthology features 66 poets of Japanese American, Japanese Canadian, Okinawan American, Okinawan Canadian, Japanese Hawaiian, Alaska Native, mixed race Nikkei, and Japanese descent. Japanese Canadian contributors include Laura Fukumoto, Erica Hiroko Isomura, Angela Marian May, Carolyn Nakagawa, Mona Oikawa, Michael Prior, Leanne Toshiko Simpson, Terry Watada, and Anne Watanabe.