Kim Rosen is a poet, spoken word artist and guide of self-inquiry and transformation. Her gift of speaking poems from around the world by heart has made her a voice for poetry’s power to awaken, inspire and heal. She gives “Poetry Concerts,” lectures and workshops, sometimes in collaboration with gifted musicians, where spoken poetry dissolves walls of culture, religion and generation. Her latest CD, Only Breath, is an interweaving of spoken poems of ancient and modern poets with the music of cellist/composer Jami Sieber. Currently she is writing a book about the art of learning, living and speaking poetry.

Kim has a B.A. from Yale University and an M.F.A. in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College. For over twenty-five years, she has led trainings, workshops and retreats in the U.S., Canada, South America and the United Kingdom and has taught on the faculty of the Omega Institute, Wisdom University and the International Pathwork Foundation. She has worked in a variety of settings including concert halls, conferences, universities, professional trainings, corporations, retreats, hospices and juvenile lock-down facilities in collaboration with such musicians as Jami Sieber, Peter Kater, Ulali, Steve Gorn, Paul McCandless, David Darling, Chloe Goodchild and Gary Malkin.

Kim delivering poetry in the New Orleans Superdome at "V to the Tenth", 2008

Photo by Paula Allen

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 non-dual teachings of Gangaji, Adyashanti and Peter Fenner.

Kim 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) and her CDs, Naked Waters (with Cathie Malach and Peter Kater), The Fire and The Rose, Vesica and Only Breath (all with Jami Sieber) are innovative interweavings of spoken poetry and music. Her work has been published in O Magazine, Central Park, The Dickens, Eclipse and The Texas Review among others, and she was a recipient of the 2001 Robinson Jeffers Tor House Prize for Poetry.

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Listen to Kim Rosen deliver a poem by heart and you will not only realize the power and beauty of speaking poetry as an art, you will want to learn a poem yourself. You will want that power and beauty in your own life. Her work is a unique and important means to help us embody the word in a time when reality is becoming more and more virtual.

—Roger Housden, author of Ten Poems to Change Your Life and editor of Risking Everything: 110 Poems of Love and Revelation

Kim invites us to take poetry to heart, and in doing so she asks us to slow down, live in our bodies, lose ourselves in image and metaphor, cherish sound and rhythm, experience deep pleasure, honor our souls. For those who are afraid of poetry, this work is a door opening; for those who love poetry, this is a sure deepening.

—Eve Ensler, author of The Vagina Monologues and Insecure at Last

Kim's work is magic. Through the poetry she knows so well, she makes Beauty herself walk and talk and make you glad to be alive.

—Geneen Roth, author of When Food is Love and Breaking Free from Compulsive Eating

Kim Rosen is bringing poetry back to where it belongs — into our bodies. To know a poem from the inside and by heart is to become a tabernacle for the sacred song of human life. We knew this long ago. Kim Rosen is helping us to remember. This art of knowing and holding poems within ourselves is crucial and life saving.

—Marie Howe, author of What the Living Do and professor of poetry at Columbia, Sarah Lawrence College and NYU