Cactus Blossoms Revisited was a recipient of a 2023 Aratani Community Advancement Research Endowment Award from UCLA’s Asian American Studies Center.

In 2024, Koji and Brynn presented “Cactus Blossoms: Poetry In (and Beyond) Gila River,” a screening and talk a J-SEI in Emeryville, CA, a multi-generational and multi-cultural organization with its roots in Nikkei values and culture. They also received a grant from The Henri and Tomoye Takahashi Charitable Foundation to create programming in collaboration with The Gate of Memory: Poems by Descendants of Nikkei Wartime Incarceration related to the task of “Activating Nikkei History Through Poetry.”

In 2025, Koji and Brynn appeared in the Nichi Bei News article “Reconciling with the WWII incarceration through art” by Soji Kashiwagi in the lead up to the Films of Remembrance festival.

Koji Lau-Ozawa presents on Cactus Blossoms at J-SEI in Emeryville, CA