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Stephen Baird is a Colorado Native whose lyric poetry sprouted over break-beats on the Chicago lakefront during his undergraduate pursuit for the meaning of life. By the end of his decade in Chicago he had refined his metaphysical style, completed his first EP (Bandcamp), and achieved a degree in Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine. Another eight years in Seattle offered real life experience of stifled inspiration, trying to make relationships work in unfamiliar environments. After eighteen years away, Stephen returned home to Colorado at the beginning of 2022, bringing a resolve to use his poetry and music to offer liberating twists of concept to the listener or reader. His poetic imagery draws from the ink wells of both Taoist Alchemy and Western Mysticism, knowing that the reawakening of natural harmony sets one free from the trap of artificial and oppressive sense-of-self inherited from our “Modern” society.

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