Benjamin Naka-Hasebe Kingsley is the recipient of a Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center fellowship as well as scholarships from Tin House, Sewanee, & VONA. He belongs to the Onondaga Nation of Indigenous Americans in New York. In 2017, his work was published in Best New Poets 2017 (ed. Natalie Diaz), the Iowa Review, Narrative, Ninth Letter, PANK, PEN America, the Poetry Review, Prairie Schooner, Rattle, and Tin House, among others.

Other poems by Benjamin Naka-Hasebe Kingsley in Verse Daily:
April 16, 2019:   "In One Small Bedroom, My Mother's Antlers" "men wind / their hands...."

Books by Benjamin Naka-Hasebe Kingsley:

Other poems on the web by Benjamin Naka-Hasebe Kingsley:
"Out My Apartment Window, West Baltimore: August, 2 A.M."
"Run: 2nd Street Harrisburg PA Summertime ‘17"
"Of What America"
"Fall"
"small talk or in my hand galaxies"
"On My Honor"
"How to Hunt Wasps: Camp Rodney, 2001"

Benjamin Naka-Hasebe Kingsley on Twitter. About Colonize Me:

Benjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley has an athlete's feel for moving through poems. Just as the reader settles into an image, Kingsley pivots and plots a new course. In the process we learn to let go of our assumptions about who this poet might be, and instead read in awe at the play. These poems play with such fervor that every reading reveals another detail, another escape hatch Kingsley has left for us to find. I love these poems and their many voices. I love their contradictions. I love their energy. Read Colonize Me and then read it again."
—Jose Olivarez