TESTING GROUND

ABOUT PETER KAHN:

A former Chicago social worker, Peter Kahn was an English teacher from 1994 and a Spoken Word Educator from 2003 until 2022 at Oak Park/River Forest High School.   A founding member of the London poetry collective Malika’s Kitchen, he co-founded the London Teenage Poetry Slam and, as a Visiting Fellow at Goldsmiths-University of London, created the Spoken Word Education Training Programme. Peter currently leads poetry programming–Schooled on Poetry– in Central Ohio schools in partnership with The Ohio State University, Thurber House and CAPA.

He has been featured in the London Times, London Independent, London Telegraph, The London Guardian, Ethnography and Education, Chicago Tribune, Education Week, Boston Globe, Chicago Sun-Times, BBC Radio, PBS NewsHour, Booklist, WGN radio, Bustle, LitHub, Poetry Magazine, Ploughshares, The Kenyon Review, The Poetry Review(UK), Teaching English (UK), English Journal, and The New York Times Book Review (reviewed by Claudia Rankine).  Two-Time prize winner…