It has since traveled from Marfa, Texas to Bellingham, Washington to the Japanese American National Museum where it remained through building closures during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Three years later, in 2011, he released two poetry collections: The Girl Without Arms with Black Ocean and O Bon with Litmus Press.

A book about the fluidity and simultaneity of racial identity, it concerns a moment in Shimoda's childhood when a boy on the school bus called him Portuguese.

[1] In 2014, Shimoda and co-editor Thom Donovan published an edited Etel Adnan anthology, To look at the sea is to become what one is, with Nightboat Books.

[8] The Colorado Review appreciated the "liminality" of Shimoda's poems as they, with a diversity of speakers, confronted questions of lineage and history.

[8] In 2019, Shimoda released a hybrid book of poetry and prose, called The Grave on the Wall, published by City Lights.

The Poetry Foundation lauded the cohesiveness and strength of Shimoda's voice and composition, calling the book "at once a memorial to the past and a survey of its aftermath.

[14] Another anthology by Shimoda, titled The Gate of Memory: Poems by Descendants of Nikkei Wartime Incarceration, co-edited with Brynn Saito is forthcoming from Haymarket Books in 2025.