{"id":2589,"date":"2026-05-14T12:44:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T11:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.poetry.nl\/festival\/?post_type=poet&#038;p=2589"},"modified":"2026-05-28T09:05:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T08:05:48","slug":"melanin-kris","status":"publish","type":"poet","link":"https:\/\/www.poetry.nl\/festival\/en\/poet\/melanin-kris\/","title":{"rendered":"Melanin Kris"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Melanin Kris is a multidisciplinary cultural storyteller based in Rotterdam. Rooted in the diasporic experience, his work moves at the intersection of spoken word, performance, Afrofuturism and speculative imagination \u2014 guided by the creative mission: Know your History, Architect the Future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His practice spans immersive poetry shows, multimedia installations and collaborative sound projects. His show The Legacy of Colonization explored pre-colonial history through the eyes of museum artefacts. In 2025, his self-portrait and digital poetry merged with kawina music in a permanent multimedia installation at Carnegie Hall, New York: <em>A Colored Illusion<\/em>. He is part of the speculative arts collective BSAM, and released the vinyl single &#8216;Sweet &amp; Sour&#8217; with Sweet Toko \u2014 a fusion of spoken thoughts and Afro-Latin music in Sranantongo. Throughout the year, he facilitates workshops in poetry, storytelling and performance across the Netherlands and beyond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2706,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2589","poet","type-poet","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"lang":"en","translations":{"en":2589,"nl":2587},"pll_sync_post":{},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry.nl\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/poet\/2589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry.nl\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/poet"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry.nl\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/poet"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry.nl\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/poet\/2589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2590,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry.nl\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/poet\/2589\/revisions\/2590"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry.nl\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry.nl\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}