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Kristiana Rae Colón

poet - actress - lyricist

About Me


Kristiana Rae Colón, one of Chicago's Def Poets, is a graduate student at the School of the Art Institute Chicago. Born and raised in Chicago, Kristiana has been writing and performing for seven years, and recently produced her first original play entitled but i cd only whisper at the University of Chicago, directed by Tiffany Trent.
Kristiana toured Chicago with Grammatical Era and London with the WordWide poetry slam team, which featured at London’s first inner-city youth slam. She has been featured on Power 92, WBEZ Chicago Public Radio, WGN Radio, and WZRD. Kristiana has rocked the mic at some of the Midwest's top venues including the Park West, the Metro, the Star Plaza Theater, the Aragon, the HotHouse, Subterranean, the Funky Buddha Lounge and Sonotheque as well as several colleges and universities. She has shared the stage with highly acclaimed writers Marc Smith, the creator of the worldwide 'poetry slam' phenomenon, Kevin Coval, Luis Rodriguez, Tara Betts, Triple Blak, Malik Yusef, Anna West, Sonia Sanchez, and has opened for Grammy-nominated band Ozomatli and internationally-acclaimed comedian Damon Williams. Her work has been featured in Acentos Literary Review, A Word, Contrary, Two With Water, Bare Root Review, Blacklight, and Girlspeak.
In 2005, Kristiana released her independently produced spoken word CD entitled Who Haunts Eden and was featured on HBO’s fifth season of Def Poetry Jam. In addition to recording, publishing, and performing, Kristiana also spends some time teaching drama, performance poetry, and other forms of creative writing in inner-city schools to talented youth ages 6 - 18. Kristiana holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Language and Literature/Creative Writing from the University of Chicago and is pursuing a Master of Fine Arts in Writing. She believes in the power of art as an educational tool and is committed to arts integration as a way to reinvigorate the learning experience. She is pursuing a career in literary and performance art and arts education.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 7/26/2005
Band Website: kristianacolon.com
Band Members: Kristiana Colón
Influences: Toni Morrison, Kevin Coval, Anna West, Mos Def, Kanye West, Amanda Torres, Ursula Rucker, Tara Betts, Nikki Patin
Sounds Like: none other
Record Label: none yet
Type of Label: None

My Blog

a letter written in all caps, one i will send

Here is a letter written on a Friday, an artifact of my tender thoughts at the ten oclock hour. This is time compressed to line, unpicked apples, unsailed waves, unswimmed reefs, unbought curtains, un...
Posted by Kristiana Rae Colón on Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:57:00 PST

Money

Primeridian - Rashid Hadee - Pugs Atomz - cameo by Kristiana - you know the deal - actually you probably don't, so watch Money by Primeridian, Rashid Hadee, Pugs Atomz. from Pugs Atomz on Vim...
Posted by Kristiana Rae Colón on Tue, 30 Sep 2008 01:42:00 PST

resignation

I acheto be heldby someoneI want to hold me
Posted by Kristiana Rae Colón on Fri, 26 Sep 2008 03:15:00 PST

sometimes it all falls down

This summer I worked closely with novelist Isaac Perry (www.isaacperry.com) on a soundtrack to his newly released book All Falls Down (www.allfallsdown.com). Check out the new music on the page:"Eva a...
Posted by Kristiana Rae Colón on Wed, 24 Sep 2008 01:15:00 PST

reprise

a freewrite, before the airplane eventually we shatterglass fractures bones snapsnapshots crumble to dustand scatter on breezesrazor as rapture, eventuallywe're captured - batter our knees on the las...
Posted by Kristiana Rae Colón on Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:34:00 PST

eleven on Fearless Radio tonight

Don't forget to tune in to the Flabby Hoffman show on Fearless Radio tonight at 7pm to a live performance by eleven - Kristiana Colón, Deja K Taylor, and Kristen "kris de la rash" Beauford.Click the l...
Posted by Kristiana Rae Colón on Thu, 10 Jul 2008 02:05:00 PST

real ram’s horns

Sunday, Jun 15th, 2008 -- You don't like to take "no" for an answer when you want to do something, even if smart friends are against your current plan. You might pretend that you have real ram's horns...
Posted by Kristiana Rae Colón on Mon, 16 Jun 2008 05:21:00 PST

Pagan Poetry

Bjork - Pagan Poetry another new obsession ...
Posted by Kristiana Rae Colón on Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:54:00 PST

summer love

we wrestle in bluegrassbat the lazy lightning bugsi mount you in a long white skirtyou feel me warm on your bucklei smash your face with fresh thymeyou laughuntil you screamuntil you die...
Posted by Kristiana Rae Colón on Tue, 10 Jun 2008 01:44:00 PST

instructions

instructions on howto make him ugly         &n bsp;     As empty vessels make the greatest sound -- Plato see him peacocksee gilt feathe...
Posted by Kristiana Rae Colón on Wed, 04 Jun 2008 02:56:00 PST