Rachel Bagby


Rachel Bagby is a US-based, award-winning performance artist, author, poet, composer, and vocalist.
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Biography

Rachel Bagby, J.D. is the originator of the poetic form she calls Dekaaz™; a form consisting of ten syllables in three-lines. The first line is 2 syllables, the second is 3 syllables and the last line is 5 syllables. The name comes from the Greek root of the word ten + the letters "a" and "z" to signify the range of human experience that can be expressed in "just ten/syllables/...three lines 2/3/5." To complete the process of creating a Dekaaz, you must speak it out loud to another living being.
Bagby is also the author of Divine Daughters: Liberating the Power and Passion of Women's Voices. Her publications include articles about sustainability in Natural Home, The Wall Street Journal, Time, Ms. Magazine, Women of Power, and others, as well as poetry in literary journals. Her anthologized contributions can be found in Nature and the Human Spirit: Toward an Expanded Land Management Ethic, ; Circles of Strength: Community Alternatives to Alienation, ; Reweaving the World: The Emergence of Ecofeminism, ; and Healing the Wounds.
She has released two recordings of her compositions, Full and Reach Across the Lines. Full features her soundtrack for the Emmy Award-winning documentary, Dialogues with Madwomen.
Bagby has established Singing Farm, a solar-powered, 20-acre organic farm and musical learning center in Central Virginia.

Honors

Discography

  • Full
  • ''Reach Across the Lines''