Katherine Rekkas is a theater student at Northwestern University as well as an accomplished writer and poet. She is a founding member of Yes is a World, having performed two poems by e.e. cummings at Yes is a World: A Concert for Peace, 4 January 2002. Recently, she was commissioned by Yes is a World to write a poem for Kiss the Speaker Wire: Songs of Protest, a performance which took place on 15 August 2003 in Chicago. This poem, fear no more, was set to music by Ted Hearne and performed at Kiss the Speaker Wire:

Fear no more.

Is our sentence trembling, lids shut, self-sealed?
No bare words. No loosed tears.
Days pile until collapse, past present.
And rooted, blocking sunlight, we sit – still –
In each locked house, a stillness in motion.

Fear no more.