Cobra Collins

Cobra Collins (She/Her) is a  Métis poet and Spoken Word artist of significant height based in Mohkinstsis (Calgary) - Treaty 7 Territory.

Cobra was the captain and coach of Calgary’s 2015 and 2016 Slam team, representing our city on a national level at the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word and was a member of Calgary’s Inkspot Spoken Word Collective, home of Calgary's official poetry Slam.

Cobra has participated in several Nationwide Spoken Word festivals, as well as collaborated with artists of different backgrounds for dance (Fluid Movements Arts Festival) and performance festivals (IKG 1 and 2 ! Live Performance Festivals). She has been published in an anthology of emerging poets in  “Drifting  Like a Metaphor” (2o16, Frontenac House.) Cobra was humbled to be nominated for The Alberta Magazine Award for best ‘Featured Writing, Short’ for her contribution “Sharing Her Truth” in WestWord Magazine (2019). Cobra was honoured to be shortlisted as a nominee for Calgary's 2016 & 2018 poet laureate. Her work can be enjoyed and appreciated locally at Koi where she has run Expressions, an open mic dedicated to emerging artists, or more quietly, in a tunnel in Confederation Park, where her poem “Collide” has been transformed into public art, alongside the artistic vision of  this city’s local youth. Above all things, Cobra truly believes that our words can change us.

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