Poems, Reviews, Interviews & Essays
NEW & UNCOLLECTED POEMS
“You Don’t Believe” in Good River Review (nominated for a Pushcart Prize)
“What is Your Struggle?” and “Numbers Game” in The Rumpus
“The Messenger” from The Palace of Contemplating Departure on The Slowdown
“Dear Reader” and “Poem for the Solstice” in Discover Nikkei
“I Believe I Would Praise You,” in Brandon Shimoda’s article on FutureFeed’s blog
"River Through" in Poemeleon
"November 9, 2016" in Waxwing Literary Journal
"Things I Never Knew I Loved" in Discover Nikkei
POEMS FROM UNDER A FUTURE SKY
“On Trying to Have a Child” in Gulf Coast (featured in Verse Daily)
"How to Prepare the Mind for Lightning," in Poets.org (with audio); also appeared on the SF Zen Center blog (nominated for a Pushcart Prize)
“First Lines” and “Last Lines” with introduction in Tupelo Quarterly
"February 19, 1942" in Waxwing Literary Journal (nominated for Bettering American Poetry)
“Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Teacher Resource” in The Volta. A video recording of the poem.
“Ordinary Animal” in Atticus Review
"Theses on the Philosophy of History" in Waxwing Literary Journal
POEMS FROM POWER MADE US SWOON
"Stone in the Desert Camp, 1942" in The San Francisco Chronicle (video of reading); poem also appeared in the Southern Indiana Review
"Stone on Watch at Dawn" in the NY Times.
"Elegy with a Blue Wing" in Muzzle (audio included); nominated for Sundress Best of the Net Anthology
3 poems at Connotation Press: An Online Artifact
"Like Any Good American" in Poets.org's Poem-a-Day
POEMS FROM THE PALACE OF CONTEMPLATING DEPARTURE
“The Messenger” on The Slowdown
"Match" in Verse Daily
"Trembling on the Brink of a Mesquite Tree" in Verse Daily
"Avignon, Early Summer," in Virginia Quarterly Review
"Winter, Ithaca," in Virginia Quarterly Review
"Alma, 1942" in Hyphen Magazine (audio only)
"Shape of Fire," in Verse Daily
RECENT REVIEWS
Under a Future Sky reviewed by Rebecca Morgan Frank for Poetry Foundation’s Harriet Books
“Brynn Saito’s Future: A Fresno Poet Transcends Space and Time” by Mike Sonksen in Alta
ESSAYS & ARTICLES
“What Exists Outside the Frame?” in Densho’s Catalyst
“First Loves: Brynn Saito on Adrienne Rich” for Poetry Society of America
“Acts of Grace: Memory Journeys through the San Joaquin Valley,” in BOOM California
“Their grandmothers were interned in WWII. Now two Fresnans react to migrant centers,” in The Fresno Bee
"Peace, Bells, Cuttings: Bravery, Energy, and Emotion in Poetry," in The Drunken Boat
"California Yonsei Lead Memory Work," in Pacific Citizen
RECENT INTERVIEWS
Reflecting on a poem, 10 years later for Lantern Review
"In Conversation: Brynn Saito," on Fresno State's MFA program blog
"This World and the World Just Beyond It," on the Ploughshares blog
"A Conversation with Brynn Saito," on the Lantern Review blog