photo by Karen Moskowitz
Kim Rosen, M.F.A., has awakened listeners around the world to the power of the poetry to heal and transform individuals and communities. Author of Saved by a Poem: The Transformative Power of Words (Hay House, 2009), she travels the planet teaching and learning how poetry can foster healing and peacemaking within and around us. From runaway Maasai girls in Kenya who recite poems to educate their elders on the horrors of Female Genital Mutilation, to Sunnis and Shiites in Baghdad, who join poetic forces in the midst of explosions and clashes, Rosen has documented the power of poetry to melt the walls between cultures, creeds and generations.
Combining her devotion to poetry with her background as a spiritual teacher and therapist, Rosen weaves inspiration, story, poetry, and music in her lectures and workshops in a variety of settings including concert halls, conferences, universities, professional trainings, churches, corporations, retreats, hospices and juvenile lock-down facilities. Co-creator of four CDs of spoken poetry and music, Rosen has been on the faculty of the Omega Institute, Wisdom University and the International Pathwork Foundation.
Kim earned a B.A. from Yale University and an M.F.A. in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College. Her work has been published in O Magazine, The Sun Magazine, The Huffington Post, Feminist.com, HealYourLife.com and The Texas Review among others, and she was a recipient of the 2001 Robinson Jeffers Tor House Prize for Poetry. She has appeared as a guest on Oprah Radio, New Dimensions Radio, and CNN Radio Network, among other media.
As a facilitator of inner work for groups and individuals, Kim is a Pathwork Helper and a certified practitioner of the Breathwork and the Work of Byron Katie. In addition, her work is inspired by her training in Core Energetic Therapy, Gestalt Therapy, Drama Therapy, and Hands-on Healing as well as her personal immersion in the teachings of Gangaji and other non-dual teachers.
Kim delivering poetry in the New Orleans Superdome at “V to the Tenth”, 2008
Photo by Paula Allen
Kim’s CDs, Only Breath, The Fire and The Rose, Vesica (all with Jami Sieber), and Naked Waters (with Cathie Malach and Peter Kater), are innovative interweavings of spoken poetry and music. She was a consultant to Roger Housden in the writing of his popular books, Ten Poems to Open Your Heart (Harmony Books, 2002) and Ten Poems to Set You Free (Harmony Books, 2003).