Ravenna Cole is a nomadic poet-philosopher, musician, and Christian.

Ravenna Cole is a nomadic poet-philosopher, musician, and Christian.

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.

Singles from The Bountiful Dream:

Listen to Ravenna's full debut album now when you join her Patreon.

Coming Spring 2026

Ravenna Cole 's debut album, The Bountiful Dream, is based on her poems in The Alchemy of Grace, and will be released in Spring 2026.

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In The Alchemy of Grace, Ravenna Cole sets out on a journey through one of the sources of Christian devotional poetry, Vittoria Colonna's Sonnets for Michelangelo, in search of a vision of a devotional poetry for the future.

In The Alchemy of Grace, Ravenna Cole sets out on a journey through one of the sources of Christian devotional poetry, Vittoria Colonna's Sonnets for Michelangelo, in search of a vision of a devotional poetry for the future.

The Ravenna Cole Podcast is a longer form arena for exploration of the deeper questions motivating Ravenna's life, poetry, and music.

EPISODE 1: My Name Is Ravenna Cole and Poetry Saved My Life

Ravenna Cole, a poet and musician (and mother of four) is releasing her first book after a twenty-year vision quest. In this episode, Ravenna talks about finding poetry, giving it up for philosophy, and then finding it again... Read More

Meet Ravenna Cole...

in sixty seconds in this short introductory video.