Issue 4 Writer Spotlight | Kira Morrison
C+B: Tell us about yourself, Kira!
KM: I work as a freelance singer and musician - I perform often as a children's performer, and also as a solo vocalist/guitarist for weddings, marriage proposals, restaurants, etc. Poetry is my passion outside of music, and I feel very lucky that both during my work days and during my spare time I get to participate in things that are artistic and creative. When I am not working or writing, I invest most of my time in community organizing and mutual aid efforts, which is an extremely important part of my life. What inspires my writing and art the most is simply observing human nature and how our desire to love and be loved manifests in such interesting and different ways with each individual person. Something people may not know about me is that I am also very spiritual and that spiritual health and wellness are a very integral part of my daily practice.
C+B: How has your relationship with your work changed since you first started creating?
KM: When I first started writing it was almost a sort of coping mechanism for what I was going through in my life, and I felt like if I didn't write what I was feeling I would spiral - slowly it became a very healing exercise for me, and now that I am further along in my journey I don't feel quite as dependent on it, but it still remains a very special and beautiful part of my life.
C+B: Share some details about your process for creating.
KM: Poetry has become my favorite part of my daily routine, and I make sure to set aside time almost every day to write. I usually like to go to a coffee shop in the morning before work, and before I write I usually read a book to get me in an inspired headspace - a lot of times I read poetry, but there are also a lot of other texts that inspire my poetry, such as Greek mythology. Ideally I like to spend a good 2 hours reading and writing every day.
C+B: What do you hope people take away from your work?
KM: I hope when people read my words they feel more open to embracing their own emotions and truer selves, and that they can see all feelings as beautiful and human rather than in the "good or bad" binary we have been conditioned with.
Find and support Kira here:
IG: @kiratotherescue
Kira Morrison
If my work was a meal it would be: A delicious pairing of wine and cheese! There can be dryness and bitterness but also so fulfilling and alluring.
I would love to be able to share my work with: I would love a chance to show my work to Lang Leav, who is one of my favorite modern-day poets. I was reading a lot of her poetry books during my first few months of writing poetry, and they were so inspiring and magical to me.
If I didn’t write poetry, I would like to try: Visual art - it's something a lot of my other close family members are very skilled at (both of my parents and my sister have worked professionally in visual arts), but I've never really pursued it further than just drawing for fun.
My ideal creative retreat: It would be a dream to stay in some sort of dreamy cabin with a bunch of my artist friends and work on all different kinds of creative projects together.
