Moving With Grief: Poetic Exploration of Loss

Cleo Childs is the author of the spoken word poetry album “Moving With” released on May 15th, 2024. This album is the culmination of two and a half years of writing about the journey of grief she experienced after losing her mom to Alzheimer’s when she was 28 years old. Her mother was an English major in college and her grandmother, who is also one of her editors, was an English teacher for 30 years so she came by her grief processing tool of writing poetry naturally.

With this spoken word poetry album, Cleo hopes to show the path her grief took from having her mother, losing her mother, and the peace and acceptance she feels now. She also hopes to give an authentic and honest look at what her grief felt like so other people going through grief don’t feel alone and feel community in their grief. You can learn more about Cleo and the project here.

Cleo Childs is a believer in the healing power of art and creative expression. Her mission as an artist is to encourage others to create art and use creative expression when going through the hard times of the human experience.

• Creating and consuming art helps us connect to our humanity and better experience the human condition as it is a tool for empathy and understanding.

Cleo has generously agreed to share her poem above, We Belonged, to encourage others to create and share their art with the world.