Peter Kahn

A former Chicago social worker, Peter Kahn is a founding member of the London poetry collective Malika’s Kitchen. He has twice been a commended poet in the Poetry Society’s National Poetry Competition and was a finalist in the Fugue Poetry Contest and Atlanta Review International Poetry Competition. A high school teacher since 1994, he has also been a Visiting Fellow at Goldsmiths University. He was named runner-up in the 2019 NCTE and Penguin Random House Maya Angelou Teacher Award for Poetry. Along with Patricia Smith and Ravi Shankar, Peter co-edited The Golden Shovel Anthology: New Poems Honoring Gwendolyn Brooks.