Bwagamoyo goes to Sundance

It's official now.

The LA Times says so.

The announcement is up on the Sundance site.

The casting call is out on Playbill.

The butterflies are official now as well. Pretty soon they'll be large enough to ride, like dragons, if I can just coax them out of my body.

US Supreme Court - New Robes

Thanks to Firoze Manji for forwarding - and Political Humor for capturing.

She Said No

New on Youtube: a student at Mount Holyoke College, Son-Ca Lam, performs my poem about Christopher McCarthy, US soldier who killed a South Korean waitress in 2000.

Watch it here. The poem begins at 6:00 min. The first part of the video is a segment from Missed Sigh Gone, a parody by Giles Li of the hit Broadway musical.

The performance was part of a larger show for Asian American Interpretive Realities.

It's fascinating for me to hear and see the piece channeled through someone else's voice and body. To watch it as a spectator. Son-Ca does a beautiful job, packs it with intensity, brings out tones and textures that will inform my future performances of it. I haven't done this piece for a very long time, and I was surprised to feel myself respond to the story, the images, as if they were new to me. And also relieved - it means the poem passes the test of good writing.