Mandy Kahn's "I Like Peace" FREE Poetry Event (Jan. 27)

Mandy Kahn, I LIKE PEACE, Philosophical Research Society, Hollywood

PRS (Philosophical Research Society) Artist-in-Residence Mandy Kahn

Performance: Monday, Jan. 27, 7:30 PM, PRS, 3910 Los Feliz Bl., L.A. 90027

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Poet Mandy Kahn returns for the fourth installment of her peace-building series entitled "I LIKE PEACE"

PRS Artist-in-Residence Mandy Kahn will present a poetry installation that coordinates nine decorated poets—all reading their own peace-building works—in a continuous poetic offering that moves through the ground’s buildings and courtyards.

The included poets are:

• Brendan Constantine
• Seven Dhar (feature performance)
• Elena Karina Byrne
• Lois P. Jones
• Peggy Dobreer
• Frankie Drayus
• Nicelle Davis
• Eric Ernest Johnson
• Nancy Romero

Together they have authored 19 collections between them. Musical guest Henry Wolfe, who’s been on the Jimmy Kimmel Show and was named an artist to watch by the Los Angeles Times, will give a concert in the library.

Scholar and writer Dr. Gustavo Turner (Harvard doctorate in English literature), who recently re-catalogued a portion of the PRS’s collection, will present and discuss rare peace-focused volumes from the library’s vaults.

And concert pianist Marina Pakowski, who is a professor at the Conservatory Maurice Ravel in France, will play peaceful works by Ravel and Debussy.

Kahn explains: “The revolution of peace begins with the individual: with the tiny, private peace-building practices we choose to incorporate into our own lives. When we build peacefulness in the self, we become conduits of peace in the world. This series gives its guests—musicians, choreographers, filmmakers, writers—the chance to both share their work and to speak of the ways that they choose to build peace into their lives.”

Mandy Kahn, PRS Library (Courtney Sell)

ABOUT: Mandy Kahn is the author of two collections of poems. Her poetry is included in The Best American Poetry 2018 and was featured in former U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser’s newspaper column "American Life in Poetry." And she’s been interviewed by BBC Radio and read at Cambridge University. She frequently collaborates with composers to create new works that combine verse and classical music; she’s made several pieces with Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Ellen Reid and was a librettist for Yuval Sharon’s acclaimed opera Hopscotch. She recently presented a program of her immersive poems at the Getty Center. This series is free (donations always welcome and can be made in person at the event or through Eventbrite) and open to the public (age 15+). Donations help support programming at PRS. Thank you!