“Dryly Funny…Radiant”
LA Times

“Exceptional”

LA Weekly

“Veteran poetry slammer Rachel Kann has a knack for punching lines into our guts as our pierced narrator of sorts… she's like a one-woman Greek chorus”

Backstage

Rachel Kann, LA Weekly Award Winner, is known for being a "verse smuggler" of sorts. She's made it her goal to explode poetry out of the coffeehouse and into the big wide world, bringing her words and passionate performances to stages as disparate as Disney Concert Hall, Royce Hall, and California Plaza in Los Angeles, The San Francisco Palace of Fine Arts, and the Vans Warped Tour, to name just a few. She is equally at home featuring at poetry landmarks like The Nuyorican Poets' Café, Beyond Baroque, and The Green Mill. She's working within the confines of page poetry, spoken word, and hip hop, and then breaking down those boundaries to do something genuinely different, all the while laughing in the face of tired old gender roles. She brings the poetry solo, with her co-lab:ORATION musicians, and with DaKah 70 piece Hip Hop Orchestra. She has toured nationally and in Europe and Canada, collaborating with beatboxers including Rahzel (The Roots), MC Squared, Joshua Silverstein, and Kid Beyond, and appearing with Sage Francis, Mike Watt, Tre (Pharcyde), Nikka Costa, Kim Hill, Medusa, Antipop Consortium, Sole (anticon), Alias (anticon), and more.

She's produced 3 cds, "PoeTTrY MOUTH" “word to the WHY?S” and her latest one, "ptomemaeic complex", and appears on the two latest DaKah cds, the two latest Enduser cds, the latest Tack-Fu cd, and numerous poetry compilation cds. She also performs her own one-woman poetry performance piece, "Haunted by want/guided by Don't-need", and has produced the four-year success, "co-lab:ORATION" at The Temple Bar in Santa Monica, CA. She's the winner of various invitational slams, including the “Different Type of Groove” $1000 slam and the "Urban Graffiti 4" $1000 Invitational Slam. She's been a member of the Los Feliz Slam Team, the Long Beach Slam Team (West Coast Regional Champs) and the Hollywood Slam Team. She's performed her poetry for HBO's Def Poetry Jam, BET's The Way We Do It, ABC’s Eye On L.A., and is a part of Higher Vibration's upcoming Spoken Word DVD, and the Special Edition Belly DVD (Artisan).

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