Castrati

It's taken me years--years!--to see this poem in print. Thanks, Steven!

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.

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

Good Vibrations Reading Blog Entry

Go HERE for the word on the event.

redroom.com

San Francisco-based redroom.com is a cool place for writers. I'm there at redroom.com/member/kevinsim

livehopelove.com at the Pulitzer Center

I've set some of Kwame Dawes' poetry again. HOPE is a new work chronicling the lives of people in the Caribbean whose lives are touched by HIV/AIDS.

livehopelove.com

wisteriaperformance.com

Visit wisteriaperformance.com to learn more about the history of the collaboration and the artists involved.

Right now, I'm working on the music for HOPE, another collaboration with Kwame Dawes and sponsored by the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting based in Washington, DC. Hope is a meditation on the HIV/AIDS crisis in the Caribbean.