Brian Komei Dempster

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…

Virtual presentation with reading of poems from Seize and accompanying family photos.

Outdoor in-person reading with Seventeen Syllables for Lit Crawl San Francisco.  

Virtual group benefit reading to support Chinese for Affirmative Action. Co-sponsored by the University of San Francisco English Department and Critical Diversity Studies Program.