Sherlock's time in New Orleans in 2006 resulted in a collaboration with poet Brett Evans, entitled "Ready-To-Eat Individual" (Lavender Ink, 2008). In an interview with Katy Henriksen for "Oxford American: New Orleans &amp; the Gulf Coast Issue", 2008: "The cases of DIY rebirth were everywhere around us, and it was a secret that had stayed within the region’s limits. Also, the effects of a city (with virtually no public services) trying to deal with a shared psychic wound of post-traumatic stress, its effect on the kids of New Orleans shuffled across town into schools with more security guards than teachers, the spike in street crime (partly as a result of these things) and other issues of displacement are largely untold stories in the national conversation. But there is also the light and dark magic of the city that cannot be explained in a straight-ahead journalist pursuit. Brett and I decided we could best talk about the state of the city post- [Hurricane] Katrina through the medium of poetry."