MANDY KAHN reads from MATH, HEAVEN, TIME, with a special performance by BECKY STARK and THE ∞ ANGELES LADIES’ CHOIR

Math, Heaven, Time (Eyewear Publishing) 

Join us for a very special evening as Mandy Kahn reads from her debut collection of poetry, featuring soloist Becky Stark and The ∞ Angeles Ladies' Choir performing new collaborative works that feature poetry, solo voice and a chorus.

Math, Heaven, Time is the lush, lyric and unabashedly beautiful debut from poet Mandy Kahn. A teeming corridor where characters from a Noel Coward play tire of eating oysters, where Alfred Stieglitz ruminates on Georgia O'Keeffe's hands, where a rooster crows for dawn all day, and where the consideration of simple things - common wheat, a renovated loft, couples that argue on reality TV - rises to the level of exhalation, of prayer. 

Mandy Kahn is coauthor (with Aaron Rose) of the nonfiction book Collage Culture: Examining the 21st Century’s Identity Crisis (JRP/Ringier), which was also released as a record with a score by No Age. She has collaborated with many composers to create works that feature poetry in tandem with classical music, and has had readings and signings at Colette (Paris), Motto (Berlin), Shoreditch House (London), Davies Symphony Hall (San Francisco), Printed Matter (New York), and Art Center College of Design (Los Angeles). 

Becky Stark was described by the NY Times as “Lucille Ball and Tinkerbell engaged in a duet.” She is the voice of the band Lavender Diamond and is a member of the harmony group The Living Sisters. She is the founder of the community healing project the LA Ladies Choir and is also the director of the LA River Choir, a public ecological healing force. She joined the Decemberists on their album “Hazards of Love” to sing the role of Margaret. Alongside comedian & musician Charlyne Yi she is a one half of the musical comedy group called Courage. She sings with John C. Reilly in the musical variety band John Reilly & Friends. She studied comparative literature at Brown University.