books
Kaia Sand is the author of three books of poetry: interval, Remember to Wave, and A Tale of Magicians Who Puffed Up Money that Lost its Puff.
poems in print
print magazines such as McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, Submit Literary Magazine, Damn the Caesars, Peaches & Bats, Primary Writing, Westwind, Eyes Monthly, Lipstick 11, The Poker, Cypress Magazine, and Hat, Pom2, Ecopoetics, Lungfull! Magazine, Antenna, Bivouac, Kenning, Phoebe, DC Poets Against the War, Washington Review, and West 47.
Anthologies include Kindergarde: Avant-Garde Poems, Plays, & Stories for Children, (Black Radish Press, ed Dana Teen Lomax, forthcoming), The McSweeney’s Book of Poets Picking Poets, (ed. Dominic Luxford, 2007) , These Pages are Marked by Women, Anthology of the Contemporary Experimental Women’s Poetry Festival), 100 Days (Ed. Andrea Brady and Keston Sutherland, Barque Press).
poems online
“afire with purpose” The Poetry Project
“air the fire.” Unlikely Stories.
Excerpt from Progeny, Sort of Like Santa Monica, wedding lyric, the amphitheater, Self Portrait in the Reflection of a Watch Face, obsolescence, feedback, appellation, forecast, and prologue, all archived in DC Poetry.
“Beggining With Lines By Allen Ginsberg.” Summer Stock
“at least four gallons per second,” a poem-ledger of oil contamination from the Deep Water horizon explosion, Poets for Living Waters.
Remember to Wave” poetry map, Wheelhouse Magazine (downloadable as pdf), Evergreen State College
“Letter to Layla Al-Attar.” Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice.
“letter to Layla al-Attar.” Dusie Magazine, Issue 1.
excerpts from “progeny” ixnay no. 6 and “not only everything alive” in ixnay reader no. 2 (downloadable as pdfs) (ed. Jenn & Chris McCreary)
lotto. Tool: A Magazine
“She had her own reason for participating.” (excerpt). Everyday Genius
“There are these old fires.” Academy of American Poets ( This poem was commissioned by the Academy of American Poets and funded by a National Endowment for the Arts Imagine Your Parks grant.)
“tiny arctic ice” Capitalism, Nature, Socialism
poetry readings
Various venues & series in New York (Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church, Bowery Poetry Club,
Segue Series, Double Happiness); Cabaret Voltaire, dadadusie series (Zurich, Switzerland);
Contemporary Experimental Cambridge Poetry Festival (Univ. of Cambridge, England); Largo das
Artes (Rio de Janeiro); Bangor University (Bangor, Wales); High Zero Reading Series (Brighton,
England); Small Press Traffic, California College of Art; University of Alabama; Washington State
University; Blaffer Art Museum, University of Houston; Cal State San Marcos; The Univ. of Hawaii
Graduate Program in English MIA series; Pacific University; Evergreen State College; Southern
Oregon University; Cascadia Poetry Festival, Seattle University; Various series in Washington DC
(Black Squirrel; Bridge Street Books, In Your Ear, Ruthless Grip, George Washington University);
Various series & venues in Philadelphia (Wooden Shoe Books; Kelly Writers House at University of
Pennsylvania); Various venues in Vancouver, British Columbia (People’s Book Coop, Kootenay
School of Writing); Various venues & series in Portland (Powell’s on Hawthorne; Spare Room, Glyph
Cafe Featured Poet, Pure Surface, Cascadia Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Creative Mornings at PNCA;
Figures of Speech Reading Series; If Not For Kidnap; St. Johns Booksellers; The New Structure
Project Cityscope
Audio
“Song from a Beached Music Box (for Jessi)” from Kindergarde (Black Radish 2013)
“Autograph Page” from Remember to Wave. Recorded by Adam Aitken at the Susan M. Schultz 10-10-10 Birthday Celebration, Honolulu, Hawaii, 10 October 2010
“Uptick” from Remember to Wave. Poetry Project. NY, NY. December 9, 2009
“the president probably talks.” Recorded as part of Wave Books “State of the Union” blog, 2008.
‘Best Regards,” ” ‘Lotto,” “introduction to ‘Family Album of Earthen Estrangement,” “Family Album of Earthen Estrangement” and “The President Probably Talks.” Contemporary Women’s Experimental Poetry Festival, organized by Emily Critchley. Cambridge, UK 6-8 October 2006
“Cognitive Dissonance” from interval (1:31:50 – 1:37:40); “Prologue” from interval (1:37:44 – 1:39:12); “suppose the future” from interval (1:39:13 – 1:39:49) The Social Mark Poetry Reading, Philadelphia, 28 February 2003.
“feedback,” “appellation,”Letter to Layla Al-Attar,” “forecast,” “obsolescence” all from from interval (Edge Books 2004). Philly Sound: New Poetry Weekend. Philadelphia. 9 August 2003.
Video
Air the Fire. Á Reading Series. Valentines, June 1, 2015.
So He Raised His Hand. (excerpt). Tuscaloosa, Alabama. May 2014.
She Had Her Own Reason to Participate. The Switch Reading Series. The Hazel Room. August 9, 2013
“Beware the Fury of the Financier,” via Human Microphone. Portland waterfront rally for Shut Down the Banks as an extension of Occupy Portland, 17 November 2011
“Gates Close at Dusk” from Remember to Wave. Nye Beach Writers Series, Newport, Oregon. 19 September 2009
DA du DA sie reading at the historic Cabaret Voltaire, curated by Susana Gardner in Zürich, Switzerland, with Jules Boykoff, Maria Damon, Kathrin Schaeppi, Susana Gardner. 30 June 2009
Contemporary Women’s Experimental Poetry Festival, organized by Emily Critchley introduction by Susana Gardner; “Best Regards,” selections from “Lotto”as well as “Family Album of Earthen Estrangement” and “The President Probably Talks” Cambridge, UK. 6-8 October 2006
There are These Old Fires. (filmmaking by Hannah Piper Burns). Creative Mornings. PNCA, Portland, Ore. 27 January 2017
