Ravenna Cole started writing music in 2025 as a way to perform the poetry she has written over a 20-year career of relentless experimentation and searching. In a tour de force of musical output, she wrote, performed, recorded and produced her debut album The Bountiful Dream (coming September 2026) in 3 months without any prior recording experience.
Her music draws on the raw, honest lyricism of emo rappers like Chika, JuiceWRLD, Lil’ Peep, and mgk, the danceable beats and electric melodies of pop artists like Tate McRae, and the boundary-pushing aesthetics of art-pop icons like Kate Bush, Björk, and Tori Amos.
Based on poems from her book The Alchemy of Grace, songs like “Oceanic Love” openly ask the biggest of religious questions but never take refuge in easy answers. The songs, like the poems, follow rivers of lived personal experience as they flow out onto entirety, and ask more questions than they ever dare to answer.
Living as experimentally as she writes, Cole has reduced her possessions to almost nothing and spent the last decade living on a boat and in a van with her family traveling oceans, rivers, deserts and mountains in search of the truth—the heart of the heart of reality—in order to put what she has found into her poetry and music.
Short MUSIC bio:
Ravenna Cole began setting her poetry to music in 2025, combining hip-hop beats and rap with pop- and new music-influenced vocals to transform her searching, experimental poetry into dance-worthy prayers, philosophical meditations, and love songs. Her debut album, The Bountiful Dream, is based on her poems in The Alchemy of Grace and will be released in Spring 2026.
Short POETRY bio:
Ravenna Cole is the author of seven books of poetry set to be released over the next several years. Her first book, The Alchemy of Grace, is available now through In the Wind Press. Individual poems from this volume have appeared in different forms under pseudonyms in Evangelization & Culture, Dappled Things, Convivium, The Windhover, Amethyst Review, Catholic Poetry Room @ Integrated Catholic Life, and elsewhere.
More about Ravenna:
For a deeper dive into Ravenna's story, why she studied philosophy, her conversion, how and why she started writing poetry, and writing and performing music, watch her introductory podcast or download the transcript.
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