Association for Asian American Studies Award for Outstanding Achievement Winner Library of Virginia Literary Award Winner American Fiction Award (Poetry) Winner Saturnalia Books Prize Winner Montaigne Medal Finalist National Indie Excellence Award Finalist Alice James Award for Poetry Finalist New Issues Press Prize Finalist Pleiades Press Prize Finalist Crab Orchard Series Prize in Poetry Semi-finalist "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." ―José Olivarez, author of Citizen Illegal