Brynn Saito's third book of poems, Under a Future Sky, was published in 2023 by Red Hen Press. A California Arts Council Individual Artist Fellow, Brynn is the recipient of the Benjamin Saltman Award and a nominee for the Northern California Book Award. Her poems have appeared in the New York Times and American Poetry Review. Brynn teaches in the MFA program at Fresno State, located on the lands of the Yokuts and Mono peoples, and is co-editing an anthology of poetry written by descendants of the Japanese American / Nikkei incarceration, forthcoming from Haymarket Books.

Other poems by Brynn Saito in Verse Daily:
June 27, 2013:   "The Watchtower" (w/ Traci Brimhall) "You could guard the city if you could bear..."
April 22, 2013:   "Shape of Fire" "Sometimes the fires moved closer to home..."
September 10, 2012:   "Match" "You live in a house of sound and you live..."
December 2, 2009:   "Trembling on the Brink of a Mesquite Tree" "And the Lord said Surprise me, so I moved to LA...."

Books by Brynn Saito:

Other poems on the web by Brynn Saito:
Two poems
"The Palace of Contemplating Departure"
Four poems
"Like Any Good American"
Three poems
"Stone on Watch at Dawn"
"To Peace"
Two poems

Brynn Saito's Website.

Brynn Saito on Twitter.

About Under a Future Sky:

"Brynn Saito writes with a rare, inimitable grace in her most personal and politically engaged book to date. The epistolary poems for family and the impact of internment and inheritance are imagined with music and wisdom. I feel more alive after these poems and her reminder, 'Beautiful prayer animal, rise to the occasion of your living.' Under a Future Sky is a masterpiece."
—Lee Herrick

"The stark beauty and physicality of the Arizona desert, where Saito's paternal grandparents were imprisoned during World War II, are ever-present in her latest book. Using the framework of letters to and from her father and other family members, she honors the 'riverstream of ancestors' and, in a celebration of ghosts, recovers stones for the living. Saito's fearless entry into her 'gate of memory' is a radical guide for us all to make meaning from the past"
—Amy Uyematsu

"Through gorgeous epistles to family, friends, and even a dragonfly, Brynn Saito quests through the Western landscape and questions the past. She searches the animal of the body, each cell an intergenerational archive, and finds 'who you've been can no longer carry you. / That is the miracle.' Lyrically lush and deeply wise, this book is both an intimate portrait and a summoning, a chance to hunt memory and recover history, still burning, still stone."
—Traci Brimhall