Vicki Grace Boguszewski - the Poet, Jah Love

The Poet, Jah Love is Vicki Boguszewski, a South Florida artist and poet of the Key West Poetry Guild (KWPG) since 1996. As a lead Poet with the KWPG, Vicki hosts the Guild's monthly open mic readings and currently serves as the (de facto) Executive Director of the Guild. She published her first Poetry collection, Mesource, in 2008. She is featured in two anthologies by the Key West Poetry Guild, Key West, I Love You (2012) and the forthcoming, We Get by with a Little Help from our Friends (2024), for which she received a 2023 Anne McKee Artist's Grant. Her 2021 Adrienne Arscht Center project, “Voluntary Expressions”, used poetry in an online platform to foster connection during pandemic isolation. Vicki is the two-time emcee of Women and Works, an annual all-women art and poetry event. She has published her poems and short stories in the literary magazine Decimos, for which she served as an editor. Her current collections, At the Water's Edge and The Stage We Celebrate, are out for publication. Her work reflects the beauty and chaos of our world and heralds social justice. Vicki holds a BA in Cultural Anthropology, a Master of Public Health, and a Graduate Professional Certificate in Arts and Public Health. She works in disaster recovery and climate change adaptation for a global engineering firm and seeks to explore the valuable role of creative engagement in community resilience. Vicki is a founding member of the GLEE Community Garden in Key West and maintains her website at www yogiinya.com.