“My community is whoever forms the cluster of stars that brightens the world and makes it easier to navigate.” Every word that Kai-Isaiah Jamal shares lands with a spellbinding resonance; a true wordsmith, it seems that they can’t help but captivate through language. This is the trait that makes their work as a poet inevitable.
Their poetry scintillates. Traversing themes of selfhood, identity and society it is unafraid. It is honest and it is necessary. Kai began sharing their words on Instagram as a way to clear their mind. “I used to write for me, it was free therapy,” they reveal in their first GAY TIMES Magazine cover story. But, as their skill for weaving personal reflections with social and political commentary garnered acclaim, their audience soon grew.
Realising the power their words had over others, Kai’s motivation behind writing shifted as they became the voice
