Kevin Simmonds's Books
Oct.04.2011
Poetry. LGBT Studies. The first anthology of its kind, with poets representing several countries (the United States, Singapore, Korea, Australia, the United Kingdom, India, Malaysia, Japan and elsewhere), COLLECTIVE BRIGHTNESS gathers over 100 established and emerging contemporary LGBTIQ poets writing from and about various faiths, religions and spiritual traditions...
Sep.01.2011
San Francisco poet and musician, Kevin Simmonds, trained as classical singer but grew up in jazz, blues and gospel-drenched New Orleans. His poems travel the distance from a southern spiritual's lamentation to gay men in a Bangkok sex club to competitive hot dog eating. With tender expansiveness that Jane Hirshfield says calls to mind "Whitman's America's future" and...
"Faith is the opposite of certainty." ”
—Karen Armstrong
About Kevin
I'm originally from New Orleans & can't say enough about how much that influences everything I am and do. I've published some poetry, essays & reviews in 42opus, jubilat, Massachusetts Review, FIELD, Poetry & elsewhere. My books include Mad...
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A Radiance Like Wind or Water (Richard Ronan)