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Christopher KolonKenosha Poet Laureate, 2023-24A native of Detroit, Michigan, Kenosha Poet Laureate, 2023/24, Christopher Kolon spent much of his adult life in Santa Fe, New Mexico where he worked as a cook and chef before transitioning to a career as a magazine publisher and freelance feature writer for regional and national publications. His practice of Zen Buddhism and shakuhachi honkyoku music, as well as poetry writing, allows him to explore the mystery in the so-called mundane. "Poetry has been, for me, a sacred space where I can whisper, and sometimes shout, the truth I see in the world around me." He's participated in poetry workshops and readings in Kenosha, Santa Fe, The Cuyamunge Institute in Pojoaque, NM, and the Esalen Institute in California.
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