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Support Rachel's poetry at Patreon. TEDx Poet Rachel Kann has been featured on Morning Becomes Eclectic on NPR and as The Weather on the podcast phenomenon, Welcome to Night Vale. She's received accolades from the James Kirkwood Fiction Awards, Writer’s Digest Short-Short Story Awards, LA Weekly Awards, International Poetry Slam Idol and Write Club Los Angeles. She's performed from The Nuyorican Poets' Cafe to Disney Concert Hall with people like Marianne Williamson and DaKAH Hip Hop Orchestra. She teaches poetry through UCLA Extension Writers' Program, where she is the 2017 Instructor of the Year. Visit her at rachelkann.com.
There is a little whisper within you. It speaks discreetly, yet yearns to be heard.
We hunger to love the undiscovered, we long to grow fond of wanting, help us remember what we have forgotten.
She is a bottomless top-shelf gimlet.
She is built of bloody bruised knuckles.
We are earthbound for a reason:
to experience the holiness of creation.
Given the options, I’m glad I don’t fit in. I’m glad I keep my eyes open. I’m glad institutions make my skin crawl, that being in church—or anyplace that feels like a western, Christian, colonized knockoff—doesn’t feel right to me.
Read the origin story of Rachel's new album, The Upward Spiral, a true Hevria original, and why it took a lot of bravery and love to get her where she is today.
A heartbreakingly intense poem from Rachel Kann, that flies from the highest the lowest realms, combining opposites and reveling in contradiction.
Rachel Kann's new album, THE UPWARD SPIRAL, produced by Jaz1, will be released on 6/13 at 11:11 on M87ent. Come on little rockstar, COME OUT AND SHINE!
Restore I/Me/Us/We to our natural state.
Remind I/Me/Us/We that all we actually do is vibrate.
