Contributing Artists
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Mandy Kahn is the author of three poetry collections, Holy Doors (2023), Glenn Gould’s Chair(2017) and Math, Heaven, Time (2014). Kahn’s poems have been included in the Best American Poetry anthology series and in the national newspaper column American Life in Poetry.
In addition to writing books, Kahn creates works of interactive literature she calls immersive poems. She builds these immersive works by combining lines of formal poetry with musical technique, audience participation and a cast of performers. She presented a concert of immersive poems at the Getty Museum in a program called “Gateways to Peace,” and also gave a concert of her immersive poems at the Barrick Museum in Las Vegas. Kahn has received commissions to write poetry that responds to fine art exhibitions at the Craft and Folk Art Museum and at Bridge Projects, and has given readings at each. In 2023, she received a grant from Los Angeles’ Department of Cultural Affairs to create a new work based on a prompt that artist Sister Corita Kent used to give to her students; Kahn performed this work at two civic concerts that were presented by the Department of Cultural Affairs and Corita Art Center. |
Kahn has been interviewed by BBC Radio, the Los Angeles Review of Books and KPFK/Pacifica Radio. She’s been profiled in magazines including Flaunt, Issue and Malibu.
Kahn’s poetry is the subject of Courtney Sell’s feature-length documentary Peace Piece: The Immersive Poems of Mandy Kahn, which was released by IndiePix and is available on many streaming platforms, and also as a DVD.
Kahn has given readings at Cambridge University, the London Review Bookshop and Shoreditch House in the UK, at Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, and at the New School in New York.
A devoted advocate for peace, Kahn began presenting a monthly series of peace-themed concerts at the Philosophical Research Society in June of 2019. In 2021, Kahn presented a peace concert at Meditation Mount in Ojai in conjunction with Dot Maver, director of the National Peace Academy, Fumi Johns Stewart, executive director of May Peace Prevail On Earth International, and Michael Lindfield, Meditation Mount’s board president. She has been a featured speaker at many peace events, including at Peace Week, World Unity Week and One Planet Peace Forum.
In September of 2020, Kahn began hosting Peace Class, a free, weekly Zoom-based gathering that brings participants together to build inner peace and world peace in community. Now in its fourth year, Peace Class welcomes participants from around the world at its Wednesday night meetings, which are presented by the Philosophical Research Society. At each class, Kahn gives a talk on one aspect of the nature of peace. She is currently in the process of turning these talks into a book.
Kahn also works as an opera librettist; she’s written several works with Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Ellen Reid, was a librettist for MacArthur grantee Yuval Sharon’s opera Hopscotch, and has received commissions from the new music orchestra Wild Up. Her work as a librettist has been performed by orchestras around the world, including Santa Fe Opera and the Breakout Music Ensemble in Berlin.
Kahn served as the Artist-in-Residence at the Philosophical Research Society from 2019 through 2021, and then became the PRS Writer-in-Residence. She now serves as a PRS Contributing Writer.
Kahn’s first book was the nonfiction work Collage Culture: Examining the 20th Century’s Identity Crisis (JRP/Ringier, 2011), which she coauthored with artist Aaron Rose. Collage Culture was designed by Brian Roettinger; its pages became a room-sized installation at Colette in Paris, where the book had its launch.
Mandy Kahn holds a degree in English from U.C. Berkeley. She lives in Los Angeles, where she was also born and raised.
mandykahn.com // @mandykahn
Kahn’s poetry is the subject of Courtney Sell’s feature-length documentary Peace Piece: The Immersive Poems of Mandy Kahn, which was released by IndiePix and is available on many streaming platforms, and also as a DVD.
Kahn has given readings at Cambridge University, the London Review Bookshop and Shoreditch House in the UK, at Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, and at the New School in New York.
A devoted advocate for peace, Kahn began presenting a monthly series of peace-themed concerts at the Philosophical Research Society in June of 2019. In 2021, Kahn presented a peace concert at Meditation Mount in Ojai in conjunction with Dot Maver, director of the National Peace Academy, Fumi Johns Stewart, executive director of May Peace Prevail On Earth International, and Michael Lindfield, Meditation Mount’s board president. She has been a featured speaker at many peace events, including at Peace Week, World Unity Week and One Planet Peace Forum.
In September of 2020, Kahn began hosting Peace Class, a free, weekly Zoom-based gathering that brings participants together to build inner peace and world peace in community. Now in its fourth year, Peace Class welcomes participants from around the world at its Wednesday night meetings, which are presented by the Philosophical Research Society. At each class, Kahn gives a talk on one aspect of the nature of peace. She is currently in the process of turning these talks into a book.
Kahn also works as an opera librettist; she’s written several works with Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Ellen Reid, was a librettist for MacArthur grantee Yuval Sharon’s opera Hopscotch, and has received commissions from the new music orchestra Wild Up. Her work as a librettist has been performed by orchestras around the world, including Santa Fe Opera and the Breakout Music Ensemble in Berlin.
Kahn served as the Artist-in-Residence at the Philosophical Research Society from 2019 through 2021, and then became the PRS Writer-in-Residence. She now serves as a PRS Contributing Writer.
Kahn’s first book was the nonfiction work Collage Culture: Examining the 20th Century’s Identity Crisis (JRP/Ringier, 2011), which she coauthored with artist Aaron Rose. Collage Culture was designed by Brian Roettinger; its pages became a room-sized installation at Colette in Paris, where the book had its launch.
Mandy Kahn holds a degree in English from U.C. Berkeley. She lives in Los Angeles, where she was also born and raised.
mandykahn.com // @mandykahn
Projects
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Inner peace is not inaction—it is preparation for the perfect action. It is necessary preparation for the action that will build a humanity that honors all beings, that honors the land, that recognizes all bodies of water as holy—one in which all are perfectly free, and by way of that freedom, are themselves, and by way of that selfhood, glow with peace.
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Inner peace is not inaction—it is preparation for the perfect action. It is necessary preparation for the action that will build a humanity that honors all beings, that honors the land, that recognizes all bodies of water as holy—one in which all are perfectly free, and by way of that freedom, are themselves, and by way of that selfhood, glow with peace.
This free online class will meet every Wednesday; drop in for one class or for the full series. RSVP here
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