Brian Komei Dempster

Group presentation with Mia Ayumi Malhotra and Brynn Saito.

Discussion with Shin Yu Pai about poetry, the Japanese American wartime incarceration, engaging with the trauma of public history and the times within which we live.

Benefit reading for Four Way Books with Ricardo Alberto Maldonado, John Murillo, Abigail Wender, and conversation moderated by Antonio de Jesús López.  

Virtual book launch and open mic hosted by Malaika King Albrecht, Heart of Pamlico Poet Laureate.

Virtual feature reading with Lucille Lang Day hosted by Andy Jones, the poet laureate of Davis, California.

Virtual reading with Peter Coyote, Angela Narciso Torres, and Bruce Willard hosted by Greenlight Bookstore.

Virtual reading with Molly Spencer for Marin Poetry Center hosted by Mill Valley Public Library.

What does it mean to be seized without warning? To seize back things taken? How do we reclaim that which is silenced or gone? Bridging lives and cultures, Brian Komei Dempster shares poems from his award-winning book, Seize, based on his experience of raising a non-verbal, epileptic son. Dempster deftly connects his son’s physical/verbal seizure…