Poetic Chronicling

Kiah will capture the themes, words, moments and essence of your event to create an original spoken word poem which includes a performance and printed version for your distribution. Using her creative approach to deep listening and observation, Kiah’s work will wow your audience and help create a mental and physical memento of your event unlike any other. See excerpts of some of her most heralded creations below.

 

We Dance. We rise. We fly.

Created for the State of Vermont Land Access and Opportunity Board: Growing Our Roots Mini Conference

High stepping, jingle dancing, bachata glide, ganggangsullae into formation

We move, we glow, we synchronize the beat of our hearts and all seeking liberation from this war machine

Our movements reflect our joy: channeled, amplified, brash and prominent

Our full breaths exhaling vitality

Mycelial Messages of Love

Created for Salon Black Walnut event: The Drum

The journey of our interconnected folktales

Love of generational connectedness

Moving from a space of void

The greed and agony of torturous truths

Powerful abuses ---- Abuses of power by the powerful

Creates chasms between the spaces where

Mycellial wisdom lies.

Ancient magic and mysterious envisionments call us to seek to recombine the cellular embodiment of

Our human family

To become repairers of the breach

The beloved community

We must reconcile our pasts which misguided our own mothers’ messages

A Policy is Not a Poem

Created for Rights and Democracy Project: From What Now to What’s Next: Visioning a Just and Equitable Future

It is the planet whose bloodstreams run red and black and blue with oil and acid and the sanctity of indigenous cultures down mountain passes through caverns and out into our oceans which swell, recede with the tides of destruction

It is the planet which can no longer produce the foods that we cultivate and forage which our foremothers held sacred because it's very DNA has been decimated and reengineered to create false wealth for a false marketplace

Digital numbers and financial indexes

Taxes placed as a bounty on our people for access to the most basic needs to survive

Abundance commodified

Every cell monetized