Faith Rice
Artist’s Statement
I am in love with words and their impact. Guilt, trauma, and passion are the most intense human emotions and I try to capture it best through poetry. I start by extracting every physical and psychological experience I have in a specific situation and I make it my business to recreate the experience inside of the reader so that reading my poetry is not just a task or an interest, but the experience itself. My goal is to tap into the human understanding and allow it to evolve my poetry into more than just words on paper. I hope to one day be remembered as a poet who didn’t write poems, but a poet who captured the fundamental and complicated nature of a human being. Love Always, Faith
Faith Rice, also known as Faithfullyours is a spoken word poet, a librarian, and an activist. Born and raised on the south side of Chicago, she received her Bachelor of Arts degree in creative writing with a concentration in poetry at Columbia College Chicago. Dedicated to spending most of her life to mentoring students and advocating peace through the arts, she has also won awards for youth leadership and violence prevention. She is currently pursuing a full-time career as a mom and a librarian with poetry still at the core of her life’s work. Faith's first poetry book, She, Dragon, was released in 2018. Her anticipated second book, She, God is scheduled for release next year.
I am in love with words and their impact. Guilt, trauma, and passion are the most intense human emotions and I try to capture it best through poetry. I start by extracting every physical and psychological experience I have in a specific situation and I make it my business to recreate the experience inside of the reader so that reading my poetry is not just a task or an interest, but the experience itself. My goal is to tap into the human understanding and allow it to evolve my poetry into more than just words on paper. I hope to one day be remembered as a poet who didn’t write poems, but a poet who captured the fundamental and complicated nature of a human being. Love Always, Faith
Faith Rice, also known as Faithfullyours is a spoken word poet, a librarian, and an activist. Born and raised on the south side of Chicago, she received her Bachelor of Arts degree in creative writing with a concentration in poetry at Columbia College Chicago. Dedicated to spending most of her life to mentoring students and advocating peace through the arts, she has also won awards for youth leadership and violence prevention. She is currently pursuing a full-time career as a mom and a librarian with poetry still at the core of her life’s work. Faith's first poetry book, She, Dragon, was released in 2018. Her anticipated second book, She, God is scheduled for release next year.
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