Kenneth Alewine is a doctoral student at the Institute for Medical Humanities, University of Texas Medical Branch. His research includes poetry and voice hearing, music and medicine, consciousness studies, illness narratives, and computer music. Recently Alewine gave presentations on consciousness, music and melancholia at the Center for Consciousness Studies, University of Arizona, and at the Film Studies program at the University of Transylvania in Romania. His music has been accepted for performance at Music Tech Fest in London this autumn. His poems have appeared in Cha, UCity Review, Psychic Meatloaf, Epigraph, and elsewhere. [Poetry]