Her poems have appeared in Harrisburg Review, Philadelphia Poets, CQ, California Quarterly, Bridges A Jewish Feminist Journal, Jewish Spectator, Earth's Daughters, Half Tones to Jubilee, The Lucid Stone, Laurel Leaves, The Laughing Dog, In the Small Courtyard of the Convent, Mad Poets Review, Schuylkill Valley Journal, New Verse News and the Tupelo Press Online Poetry Project among other publications.

A retired speech therapist, she teaches poetry to intergenerational, interfaith, community based groups, some under the auspices of the Arts and Spirituality Center.

Her hope for poetry, whether confessional or socially themed, is that it be artistically whole, and that its meaning extends to the universal, resonating in streams of emotion, thoughts, actions which ease and further our being human--alone and in the world.

Links to my poetry on the web...

Poet of the Week (week of June 7, 2010) at Poetry Super Highway

12th Annual Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) Issue (April 19 - 25, 2010) 

She has read her poetry at Barnes & Noble Book Stores, Robins Book Store, The Big Jar, Qbix Gallery and other venues in Philadelphia, New Jersey, Massachsetts and Arizona. At the Jewish Reconstructionist Convention, 2007, she read from Landscapes of Light while her son, Nate Kahn, a professional musician and band leader in the Philadelphia area, accompanied her on his guitar.

Upcoming Events...

Tues., December 20, 2011:
7:00 pm, THE GREEN LINE CAFE PRESENTS: An Open-Invitational Reading
Hosted by Leonard Gontarek & Lillian Dunn

*Readers are invited to read two of their own poems and one poem by a poet they consider overlooked, with a brief statement about the poet and why you think their work is significant.

Readers include:
John Timpane + Betti Kahn + Rosemary Cappello
Ditta Baron Hoeber + Meredith Avakian
Michele Belluomini + Clinton Smith + Janet Fishman
Rafi Lev + Bob Gamberg + Kathryn Rose
Naila Claudia Schulte + Janet Spangler
Autumn McClintock + Charles Carr
Hanoch Guy + Lillian Dunn + Leonard Gontarek

The Green Line Cafe is located at 45th & Locust Streets

Mon., October 17th, 2011:
6:00 p.m., at the Penn Bookstore, 36th & Walnut St, B.E. Kahn will read with the 34th St. Poets, a group she's been a member of for about 19 years.The other current members are: Alyson Adler, Deidra Allen, Sandra Chaff, Barbara Daniels and Cindy Savett. Most are published poets and all have unique poetic voices.

Tues., March 22nd, 2011:
7:00 pm, Robins Bookstore, 13th & Sansom Streets, Phila., PA. B.E. Kahn and Michelle Belluomini will read.

Sun. Feb. 27, 2011:
2-4 pm at Ryers Museum & Library, Burholme Park, 7370 Central Ave., Phila., PA, 19111, the poets B. E. Kahn and Mel Brake will read.

Sat., February 5th, 2011
3:00 pm at the Blue Marble Bookstore, 551 Carpenter Lane, Phila., PA 19119, 215-844-1870

Sun., Jan. 9th, 2011:
3:15-5:30 pm at the Manayunk Art Center, 419 Green La.(rear), Manayunk, PA.
ETHNIC VOICES: 6 Poets of The Philadelphia Poets Journal--Mel Brake, Joseph Cillufffo, Anna Evans, B.E. Kahn, Jim Mancinelli & Emiliano Martin will read their poetry. Rosemary Cappello, Editor will emcee.
For more info, call 215-482-3363.

Recent Readings...

April 5th, 2010: 
At the University of Pennsylvania Kelly Writers House at 38th & Locust Walk, B.E. Kahn read with The 34th Street Poets, a Collective of which she has been a member and which has been meeting weekly since 1992. The exciting line up of current members includes Alyson Shore Adler, Deidra Greenleaf Allen, Sandra Chaff, Barbara Daniels and Cindy Savett.