Jens Köhler

I make art every day using available tools and materials: words, sounds, paper, money, drawing tools, conversations, cameras, and whatever else is lying around. I do it to stay sane and to make life better.

Labels that have made sense to describe me have included poet, performer, producer, self-taught visual artist, writer, and culture worker.

I careen between the satisfactions of small, achievable, intimate expressions and a wish to contribute to efforts larger than myself and to one day touch the hems of Shelley's "unacknowledged legislators of the world.”

I am having more luck with the little things. I'd hoped to have repaired the glaciers by now. 

Jens Köhler, founder and president of Urgent Beauty Squad LLC, is a poet and cultural practitioner based in Los Angeles and Toronto.

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PUBLICATIONS

The Lonely Impulse, Issue 0001: “ART POWER: 1) BLUF,” 2020.

Now We Are Seven, poetry, with illustrations by Mike Bailey. Los Angeles; Urgent Beauty Squad, 2017

The Emu Dialogues (co-authors: Luciano Iacobelli and Robert Marra), poetry. Toronto: Quattro Books, 2015

But Sir! (a passionate friendship in five chapters), (co-author / co-illustrator Luciano Iacobelli), a hand-made book, Toronto: LyricalMyrical Press, 2005.

Some of these publications are in collections like: Stanford University, University of Alberta, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Western University, University of Toronto, Library and Archives Canada / Bibliothèque et Archives Canada, Queen's University Documents Library, Princeton University Library, Harvard College Library, Yale University Library, Dalhousie University Killam Memorial Library, Los Angeles Public Library.