Q&Arts
Jody Whitt, talented artist, urged me to bl(AH)g long ago. I've stumbled upon great & untidy & unexpected surprise stuff on the net & maybe, just maybe, I might surprise someone someday somewhere somehow with something I've included here.
"As soon as the generals and the politicos/can predict the motions of your mind,/lose it." (Excerpt from the poem, Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front by Wendell Berry)
Saturday, August 14, 2010
Friday, August 13, 2010
Asian-Black Relations
ORIENT, an outgrowth of my site huggingasians.com, is in development and getting support. CounterPULSE, Oakland Asian Cultural Center and Eth-Noh-Tec are supporting the work alongside poets like Brenda Hillman, Truong Tran, Matthew Shenoda, LaTasha Nevada Diggs, Ellen Bass, Evie Shockley, Singaporean poet Alvin Pang and Tony Award-winning composer Jason Robert Brown. We're still raising funds and would appreciate any help. $35 and over gets a DVD or CD of the premieres but we'll take whatever amount you can afford!!!
Sunday, June 14, 2009
Saturday, January 31, 2009
UniVerse of Poetry
The Pulitzer Center commissioned me to set the poetry of Kwame Dawes. Kwame and I have worked together on numerous projects. HOPE focuses on HIV/AIDS in Jamaica. You can visit livehopelove.com AND UniVerse of Poetry to read the poems, hear the music and see the astounding work of photographer Joshua Cogan.
Labels:
HIV/AIDS,
Jamaica,
journalism,
Kevin Simmonds,
Kwame Dawes,
poetry,
Pulitzer Center,
spoken word
Friday, January 30, 2009
Sarah Jones
If you don't know Sarah Jones, then you don't know one of the foremost performers of our time. Her work is poetry and the most incredibly empathetic renderings of how much we are all ALIKE. In this, the Obama Dispensation:), I'm doing more work on my interior. I will--I must--work so that people see themselves in every other person walking down the street.
Sarah Jones's Website
Sarah Jones's Website
Jack Straw Writers Program
I'm a 2009 Jack Straw Writers Fellow and it's exciting. I adore having to fly up to Seattle every couple months to experience and experiment with & sound.
There are 12 writers in the program with such different, clarion voices. More to come...
Jack Straw
There are 12 writers in the program with such different, clarion voices. More to come...
Jack Straw
Tuesday, November 04, 2008
Good Vibrations Reading Blog Entry
Go HERE for the word on the event.
Friday, October 03, 2008
Ulysses Dove
What can I do to spread the name and work of one of America's greatest choreographers? You need his work. I promise.
Ulysses Dove
Ulysses Dove
To Be Left with the Body Reading 10/23 @ 6:30pm
I'll be reading with Marvin K. White and Jewelle Gomez at Good Vibrations (1620 Polk Street). The anthology reminds us that black bi/gay men and HIV/AIDS is an ongoing and gnarled reality.
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