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Want a sense of the workshops I offer? Here you go: https://www.owensoundsuntimes.com/news/local-news/sound-poet-shares-secret-finding-her-muse. You can hear more of my techniques on "The Craft of Writing": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cn2HRTLuQOA Doesn't this great review make you want to read/hear Incrementally?https://periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2023/10/laura-kerr-incrementally-by-penn-kemp.html The text, Incrementally (88 pages and free!) is now up on https://www.hempressbooks.com/shop/p/incrementally-by-penn-kemp ! Album is on https://angrystarlings.bandcamp.com/ https://www.hempressbooks.com/angrystarlings https://www.hempressbooks.com/authors/penn-kemp E. Ruth Strebe filmed "Night Orchestra" when I was reading it with audience participation that included alpacas and...:) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Okzs9hnbvQc 1.232 3“from Night Orchestra”, “Declination”, “Bees Needs”, Interpoem: A Visual Anthology. Editor, Laura Kerr, https://sedserio.com/about Forthcoming Kevin Spenst’s Chapbooks Review of “Poem for Peace in Many Voices” book and CD, subTerain magazine, WINTER, #96. https://subterrain.ca/ November, 2023. “3 favorite reads in 2023”, https://shepherd.com/. My choices: Emma Donoghue, Susan McCaslin and Harold Rhenisch. My 4th: Alicia Elliot's new AND THEN SHE FELL. April 29, 2024, 7pm. Art Bar, Free Times Café, 320 College Street. Toronto, ON M5T 1S3. On College w. of Markham· (416) 967-1078. Feature, artbarpoetry@gmail.com Recent Readings November 15, 2023, 6:30pm to 8:00pm. Launch of the anthology, Stones Beneath the Surface. Mykonos Restaurant, 572 Adelaide St. N., London ON https://blackmallardpoetry.wixsite.com/home/books November 14, 2023, 7pm ET. “Heart to Art”, video for Quai Nocent Docent (What Hurts Teaches): A Collection of Poems and Musings. The Friendly Spike Theatre. Contact: sarah.wells@live.ca November 4, 2023. Reading from Joey and his Friend Water and Barbaric Cultural Practice for the Power Up Climate Solutions Rally, Council of Canadians, Victoria Park, London ON, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsHGUz_z0H8&list=PLGO4M_omdRNuZHjHSitWmk8vPQRuYrHws&index=6 October 31st to 5th November.“Wishing Well” from www.riverrevery.ca. “Buenos deseos” Spanish translation by Camilo Bosso. Mary McDonald’s videopoem “Wishing Well” on www.riverrevery.ca will be shown in "CLIMATE CHANGE AND SUBJECTIVITY": Debate con Mary McDonald, Ian Gibbins y Sarah Tremlet. MALDITO FESTIVAL de Videopoesía /MALDITO FESTIVAL, Albacete, Spain. https://malditofestival.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/MALDITO-FESTIVAL-Programa-VII-EDICION-2023.pdf. What a glorious weekend of poetry at www.wordsaloud.ca, thanks to Richard-Yves Sitoski and his grand team, and the POETS! This reporter stuck around for my 2 hour workshop on sound poetry... and participated:) https://www.owensoundsuntimes.com/news/local-news/sound-poet-shares-secret-finding-her-muse. Great Lakes Odyssey Radio Hour. “On this trek of the Great Lakes Odyssey Radio Hour we examine how climate shapes and defines culture… And poetry performance by Penn Kemp with Bill Gilliam.” The show is up now, 44.42, https://radio.wcmu.org/show/great-lakes-od/2023-10-17/great-lakes-odyssey-october-14-2023. On October 21, 7 pm, WBFO-NPR Buffalo/Toronto aired it. October 21, 10 pm, WCMU-NPR Central/North Michigan aired it. The reach is 100,000 listeners! Re-Creative: Penn Kemp on Poets in Collaboration: https://re-creative.podbean.com/e/re-creative-penn-kemp-on-fellow-poets-harold-rhenish-and-sharon-thesen/. Re-Creative with Penn Kemp on collaboration and tipped canoes. A podcast about creativity and the works that inspire it. Hosts Joe Mahoney and Mark A. Rayner.October 11, Re-Creative with Penn Kemp on collaboration and tipped canoes. A podcast about creativity and the works that inspire it. Hosts Joe Mahoney and Mark A. Rayner. https://re-creative.ca/ October 21, 11:00am - 1:00pm. Words Aloud, Community Poetry Workshop, at M’Wikwedong Indigenous Friendship Centre, Owen Sound ON. Sounding the Muse: "Calling in the Muse, sound poet Penn Kemp presents the three stages of writing a poem: invocation, expression, and communication. This workshop explores new ways of reaching the source of creativity, evoking your Muse through sound to give form to poetry. Participants will experience the innovative power of sound poetry. Through sounding, we will tap the energy and source of inspiration. Then we will explore finding language to shape the inklings of your poem. Participants will develop an abundance of ideas and images, an enhanced awareness of structure, and more ease and delight in showing or performing work." See https://wordsaloud.ca/schedule! https://www.owensoundsuntimes.com/news/local-news/sound-poet-shares-secret-finding-her-muse October 21, 2023, Great Lakes Odyssey. live: “On this trek of the Great Lakes Odyssey Radio Hour we examine how climate shapes and defines culture… And poetry performance by Penn Kemp with Bill Gilliam.” From "Night Orchestra" 44.42, up now https://radio.wcmu.org/show/great-lakes-od/2023-10-17/great-lakes-odyssey-october-14-2023 On October 21, 7 pm, WBFO-NPR Buffalo/Toronto aired it. October 21, 10 pm, WCMU-NPR Central/North Michigan aired it. The reach is 100,000 listeners! October 22, 2023. 12:00pm - 2:00pm. Performance, Words Aloud, Owen Sound ON. Featuring Barry Dempster, Kim Fahner, Penn Kemp and D.A. Lockhart. Main stage event, Tom Thomson Art Gallery, Owen Sound. Contact: Richard Sitoski <r_sitoski@yahoo.ca> https://wordsaloud.ca/schedule October 2O, 2:30pm. A Painterly Poet project at the 2023 Ontario Screen Creators Short Film Pitch Competition, London ON. Robyn Israel, director. September, 2023. Launch of text, Incrementally. Text pm https://www.hempressbooks.com/authors/penn-kemp.Album on https://angrystarlings.bandcamp.com/ https://www.hempressbooks.com/angrystarlings https://www.hempressbooks.com/authors/penn-kemp Hempress. Video, “Foundational Experience,” 100 THOUSAND POETS FOR CHANGE: 10+ YEARS OF POETIC ACTIVISM. 100TPC September 24, 2-4 PM EDT. 100TPC Virtual Book Launch World Wide https://www.facebook.com/events/202968835886462 Contact: 10yr100tpcbook@gmail.com September 21, 2023. Patricia Keeney read poems from POEMS IN RESPONSE TO PERIL, including Penn's. Ryga Arts Festival, www.rygafest.ca. Salute to Ukraine, Summerland BC. September 10, 3-5 pm. Reading Among the Alpacas", with Robyn Israel. The Timbuktu Alpaca & Eco-Tourism Farm, 2211 Egremont Drive, RR5 Strathroy ON, N7G 3H6. Kid friendly! To register: https://www.timbuktufarm.com/. Contact Thandi, info@timbuktufarm.com. I'll read from my plays THE EPIC OF TOAD AND HERON and THE DREAM LIFE OF TERESA HARRIS. Sponsored by Playwrights Guild of Canada. https://www.timbuktufarm.com/event-details/reading-among-the-alpacas https://www.facebook.com/events/790127145919723/ "Night Orchestra”, videopoem with my text; music and sound design by composer Bill Gilliam. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98OEWklDcYY. Recent Publications 2023 “Solace for the Newly Bereaved”, https://createforhealing.com/create-for-healing-magazine-the-art-of-overcoming/ “The Winter Widow i”, “The Winter Widow ii”, stones beneath the surface: a poetry anthology, pp. 44-45. November, 2023. https://blackmallardpoetry.wixsite.com/home/books. "Weather Vane, Whether Vain, Whither and Thither” and “Black, White and Red All Over Town”: two poems in a fine press edition of the anthology, An Avian AlphabetA Flock of Poems on Birds by 15 Canadian Poets, selected by Susan McCaslin, with 30 Woodcuts by Edith Krause. Autumn 2023. http://www.barbarianpress.com/catalog/avian-alphabet.html “from Night Orchestra”, “Declination”, “Bees Needs”, Interpoem: A Visual Anthology. Editor, Laura Kerr, https://sedserio.com/about “Heraclitus Ongoing”, “Invocation Beyond Building Digital Bridges”, “Leviathan Meets Behemoth” pp. 64-66. https://wordsfest.ca/assets/images/zines/Bridging-Divides-Wordsfest-2022-Zine.pdf "At the Hyland", The Temz Review, thetemzreview, https://www.thetemzreview.com/issue-24.html “Foundational Experience,” 100 THOUSAND POETS FOR CHANGE: 10+ YEARS OF POETIC ACTIVISM. 100TPC Virtual Book Launch World Wide. Ebook: https://a.co/d/9tWwZIy https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CFCYVW7S?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860, Review: "The Ridge by Robert Bringhurst", Contemporary Verse 2, Vol 46, No. 1, Summer 2023, p.66. https://contemporaryverse2.ca August 7, 2023. Launch Incrementally. Angry Starlings, Hempress https://www.hempressbooks.com/authors/penn-kemp https://angrystarlings.bandcamp.com/album/incrementally https://bandcamp.com/pennkemp/ https://hempress.substack.com/p/incrementally-by-penn-kemp-is-now “Ear Rings”, Eric Schmaltz, Borderblur Poetics: Intermedia and Avant-Gardism in Canada, 1963-1988, University of Calgary Press "Mal à Hat", http://rollofnickels.blogspot.com/2023/06/malahat-review-listserv-found-poem-6.html A Baker's Dozen: poems for Blackfriars Bistro. Pendas Productions, 5/2023. Two poems, "When Friends Introduced Me" P.65 and "Gift for Granted", P.80. Women and Fat Studies: Feminist (re)Visionings 35.1,2http://www.cwscf.ca/. :Heart to Art", The Spring issue of SAGE-ING is out! "OUR KIND OF INTIMATE" is up now on http://www.sage-ing.com/Sage-ing44.pdf #anthology https://www.rsitoski.com/poems-in-response-to-peril. Listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhDPMd4iqlI&list=PLDARA01MjoyW7WccH9j6yGtI3XZhcE0BD&index=5&t=18s Forthcoming Publications 2023 “The Conference of the Birds” with Harold Rhenisch, Canadian Literature / Littérature canadienne, https://canlit.ca/. 2023 Rose A Rose, anthology, Rose Garden Press, Fall 2023. Contact: hello@rosegardenpress.ca “Choice”, video by Dennis Siren, text: Penn Kemp. The OmniVerse Project, Write Bloody North. Three videos on sound poetry: history, performance, lesson. https://calgaryspokenwordfestival.com/omniverse-artists/penn-kemp-2/, https://calgaryspokenwordfestival.com/omniverse-project/ Bio Poet, performer and playwright Penn Kemp has been celebrated as a trailblazer since her first publications of poetry by Coach House (Bearing Down, 1972) and the anthology of women's writing, IS 14 (1973). Kemp has long been a keen participant/activist in Canada’s cultural life, with more than thirty books of poetry, prose and drama; seven plays and ten CDs of her Sound Operas as well as award-winning videopoems. 2022 saw the publication of Poems in Response to Peril, an anthology in support of Ukraine. Recent collections of poems include collaborations: P.S. with Sharon Thesen (Gap Riot Press, 2022) and Black Keys of Kiev (forthcoming), with Harold Rhenisch. For service to the community, she has received both Diamond and Platinum Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee medals and was on London North Centre’s first Honour Roll. See www.pennkemp.wordpress.com. Recent Readings August 23, 2023, 3:30 pm. Benefit for Ukraine with poets reading from the anthology, Poems in Response to Peril and a Ukrainian song played by Mary Ashton. Grace Restaurant, 215 Dundas St., London! Grace is elegant and charming, spacious: https://www.gracelondon.ca/. Our host is Angela Murphy, angie@gracelondon.ca. We presented a cheque for $3,000 from sales of the anthology to Aid for Artists in Ukraine, https://www.cufoundation.ca/our-projects.ee also https://lfpress.com/news/local-news/local-ukrainians-prepare-to-mark-bittersweet-but-proud-independence-day August 16, 2023, 7:30pm. Launch of ORDERBLUR POETICS: INTERMEDIA AND AVANT-GARDISM IN CANADA, 1963-1988 (University of Calgary Press) by Eric Schmaltz. The evening will feature short readings by ERIC SCHMALTZ, BILL BISSETT, BRIAN DEDORA, PENN KEMP (virtual), PAUL DUTTON, & DANI SPINOSA. Sun Room at 918 Bathurst Centre for Culture, Arts, Media & Education (918 Bathurst St, Toronto, ON M5R 3G5 July 25, 2023, 5:45 pm-8 pm. Minstrels & Bards Summer Soirée 2023 Edition. Feature poet, with Bill Gilliam, featured musician. at The TRANZAC, 292 Brunswick Ave, Toronto, ON M5S 2M7. Host: Brenda Clews, Minstrels & Bards, minstrelsandbards@gmail.com. My reading is sponsored by the League of Canadian Poets and the Canada Council for the Arts. See https://youtu.be/Egorvpp6Wbw, thanks to Brenda Clews July 9, 3-5 pm. "Reading Among the Alpacas", Feature poet, with Robyn Israel. The Timbuktu Alpaca & Eco-Tourism Farm, 2211 Egremont Drive, RR5 Strathroy ON, N7G 3H6. See https://www.timbuktufarm.com/. I read poems from Fox Haunts and A Baker's Dozen. My reading was sponsored by the League of Canadian Poets and the Canada Council for the Arts. See https://www.facebook.com/events/580340174300919/?ref=newsfeed. June 14, 6:30-8 pm. Mykonos Restaurant, London ON. Sub*vers*ion: New Poetry by John Tyndall /Penn Kemp /David Stones /Carrie Lee Connel /Andreas Gripp. I read first for fifteen minutes from my new chapbooks, P.S., and A Baker’s Dozen. https://www.facebook.com/events/1182986842384706/?ref=newsfeed. My reading is sponsored by the League of Canadian Poets and the Canada Council for the Arts. May 09, 2023. Skål International London. Special guest, Penn Kemp, entertained us with poetry readings from her recent publication, A Baker’s Dream, Poems for Blackfriars Bistro. Blackfriars Bistro, London ON. Host, Forest City Culinary Experiences. Blackfriars Bistro, London ON. https://darwin.skal.org/blog/clubs-news-2/post/skal-international-london-april-may-june-2023-events-821 Reading to Celebrate Poetry Month! April 27, 2023, 7 pm. We read from recent poetry celebrating JOY, free. Blackfriars Bistro (519) 667-4930, 46 Blackfriars St, London, ON N6H 1K7. Contact: Penn, 519 434 8555, pennkemp@gmail.com. Sponsored by the League of Canadian Poets and the Canada Council for the Arts, celebrating National Poetry Month https://pennkemp.wordpress.com/2023/04/06/surprised-by-joy/ https://pennkemp.substack.com/p/surprised-by-joy?sd=pf “Surprised By Joy” has been chosen as the League of Poet’s poem for JOY in National Poetry Month #npm! It is featured April 28, https://poets.ca/poetrypause/. This poem was carried on April 27 for poem in your pocket day, https://poets.ca/programs/pocketpoem/. March 8, 2023, 8:00-9:30 pm. International Women’s Day Reading on Zoom, Feminist Caucus, League of Canadian Poets, www.poets.ca. Contact: Diana Manole, dianamanole@yahoo.ca February 26, 6:30 pm-7:15 pm CST. Ecopoetry Films & Subjectivity: Behind the Making Process. With the devastating effects of climate change, Ian Gibbins, Mary McDonald, and Sarah Tremlett present their films (including poetry from Fiona Tinwei Lam & Penn Kemp) and discuss each other’s work in relation to the theme of ecopoetry and subjectivity. Ecopoetry Films & Subjectivity will be presented as part of the REELpoetry Festival 2023, https://www.publicpoetry.net/2023-program. January, 2023. Juror, Literary Creations Projects Works for Performance panel, Ontario Arts Council January 11, 2023. 11:00pm-12:00am/ “Familiars”, spoken word with modifications track from an early-millennium CD by sound poet Penn Kemp with electronics by Chris Meloche. Opening show, James Bailey, host, Electric Sense. 89.5FM or https://ciut.fm/shows/electric-sense A Year of Reading! https://pennkemp.wordpress.com/2023/03/25/celebrating-womens-history-month-with-books/ https://pennkemp.wordpress.com/2022/12/31/books-read-recommended-2022/ May our eyes hold up! Publications 2022 "I'm delighted to have “Our Kind of Intimate” included in The League of Canadian Poets’ Poetry Pause Throwback’s series on December 27. This series highlights top read poems from the past year of Poetry Pause: https://pennkemp.wordpress.com/2022/11/28/pausing-for-poetry/. Also, from NPM22 Blog: An Ecology of Intimacy: Through the Lens of Poetry by Penn Kemp, https://poets.ca/npm22-blog-penn-kemp// Canada lost two fine artists in November: Robert Hogg and Michael Morris. My poem, “Reading: Bob In the Light Of”, The Typescript, https://thetypescript.com/reading-bob-in-the-light-of-by-penn-kemp/. December 2022. “Reading: Bob In the Light Of”, in memory of Robert Hogg's birthday, The Typescripthttps://thetypescript.com/. March 2023 Here is a poem celebrating Morris's colour bars: https://pennkemp.wordpress.com/2022/11/20/scaling-the-colour-bar-for-michael-morris/ BEST CANADIAN POETRY 23 has arrived! What inspiring company! Everyone's kidding me about publishing poems from the future. My poem, all too aptly called "Cancel Culture", is up on https://pennkemp.wordpress.com/2022/11/18/best-canadian-poetry-2023/. Thank you John Barton, Anita Lahey and Biblioasis! And to Karl Jirgens for reading my poem at the Toronto launch. Karl E. Jirgens has edited a glorious issue of HAL, Hamilton Arts & Letters magazine! https://samizdatpress.typepad.com/.../video-poems-by-penn... Videopoems: "Night Orchestra" by Bill Gilliam and "Translation" by Dennis Siren https://samizdatpress.typepad.com/.../video-poems-by-penn... See more, much more on https://samizdatpress.typepad.com/hal_issue_fifteen-2/t November 5th, 12-1:30 PM at Wordsfest, Museum London, http://wordsfest.ca... Poems in Response to Peril. Poets read their poems and others from the anthology. Museum London in a very empowering reading to a live audience, also on Zoom. I hosted. . Readers: Andreas Connell-Gripp Karl Jirgens Patricia Keeney Penn Kemp Robert Priest Shelly Siskind Jennifer Wenn Susan Wismer and Ola Nowasad http://wordsfest.ca/events/2022/poems-in-response-to-peril! The video will be available soon. Poems in Response to Peril: an Anthology in Support of Ukraine (Pendas Productions/Laughing Raven). $30 plus post. Poems in Response to Peril: An Anthology in Support of Ukraine, May 2022, 122 pages). ISBN 978-1-927734-37-7 I love gathering poets together to celebrate different causes. In fact, I hosted a weekly literary radio show, Gathering Voices, for seven years and published a book/cd collection, Gathering Voice. Since 1972, I have been publishing poetry as well as editing anthologies that collect differing voices, as an activist and poet/editor: gathering voices for women, nature, and social justice is my passion. Given the immensity of suffering in the war on Ukraine, I was galvanized to gather together poems in solidarity with Ukrainians. The anthology, co-edited with Richard-Yves Sitoski, was launched 3 months after the invasion began: a huge endeavor that included 48 activist poets. #poetsinresponsetoperil: Poem for Peace in Two Voices. Read with Richard-Yves Sitoski #poetsinresponsetoperilhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UR5-ZYfdbk4 My five recommendations of Canadian anthologies for social justice, women and the environment: https://shepherd.com/best-books/social-justice-women-and-the-environment Poème à deux voix pour la paix, lit par Richard-Yves Sitoski et Penn. Traduit par Claude Gillard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXGaRuBHUtU Reviews: Tom Sandborn's excellent review is up now: "“Singing Against the Storm." Book review: Poets speak out about Russia’s attack on Ukraine: Penn Kemp and Richard-Yves Sitoski have forged a collection of powerful verse against the war". His article came out in The Vancouver Sun, The Province and other Postmedia papers on July 17, 2022. https://vancouversun.com/entertainment/books/review-canadian-poets-speak-out-about-russias-attack-on-ukraine My article is out in WRITE, TWUC's newsletter, Summer 2022. https://www.writersunion.ca/about-write-magazine. "Poems in Response to Peril: an Anthology in Support of Ukraine". Pull quote: "Gathering voices in the white heat of the moment, this anthology couldn’t be more timely or more necessary." "Poems invoking sunflowers and broken earth; intimacy and grief; falling bombs and the fragility of flesh; AK-47s and a bride’s bouquet." Thanks to Gregory Betts for writing this reflective and comprehensive review and to rob mcclennan for all his work in publishing! https://periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2022/07/gregory-betts-poems-in-response-to. html Marsha Lederman’s fine article for POEMS IN RESPONSE TO PERIL: is in The Globe and Mail print edition, June 28, 2022! It is featured in LIFE & ARTS, A12. It’s also on line: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/article-ukrainian-art-in-canada-reflects-the-war-and-our-responses-to-it/ https://pennkemp.wordpress.com/2022/06/04/reviews-of-poems-in-response-to-peril/ Recent coverage for the book includes The Globe and Mail, https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/article-ukrainian-art-in-canada-reflects-the-war-and-our-responses-to-it/ June 17 http://www.sage-ing.com/Sage-ing41.pdf P.2, a full page poster in colour and P. 27, info and a poem, June 19 Island Catholic Times. P. 17, info and a poem. June 19, and the Association of Italian Canadian Writers summer newsletter Review of P.S. https://thepoetryquestion.com/2022/05/19/review-ps-penn-kemp-sharon-thesen-gap-riot-press/ Launches: November 5, 2022, wordsfest.ca, Museum London, London October 11, Art Bar, Clinton's, Toronto. May 28, Blackfriars Bistro, London ON. https://pennkemp.wordpress.com/2022/05/05/launch-poems-in-response-to-peril-an-anthology-may-28-2pm-blackfriars-bistro-london-on/ https://pennkemp.wordpress.com/2022/04/03/gathering-voices-in-response-to-peril/ We sold 300 books in our first month. Keep ’em coming by ordering from r_sitoski@yahoo.ca! Poems in Response to Peril: an Anthology is dedicated to the poets of Ukraine from 48 Canadian poets as a fundraiser for Pen Ukraine. In solidarity, Londoners came out to help us launch this anthology of urgent poems in support of Ukraine on May 28 at Blackfriars Bistro & Catering London Ontario https://lfpress.com/entertainment/local-arts/poets-set-to-launch-anthology-in-london-supporting-ukraine! Our anthology in support of #Ukraine is now available at public Libraries in London, Guelph and Owen Sound. Order it for your Library as well and/or your own copy from @r_sitoski@yahoo.ca! Here's our first review, by Catherine Owen: " this essential anthology of voices against decimation is one form of multiple approaches to knowing, in politics, through poetry, for humanity." https://crowgirl11.wordpress.com/2022/05/12/poems-in-response-to-peril-ed-penn-kemp-and-richard-yves-sitoski-pendas-productions-2022/. A poem from the anthology has been translated into Ukrainian with this beautiful title: "Touches Souls". See Sergiy Kuzin's translation of "Kind of Intimate" on https://pennkemp.wordpress.com/2022/06/02/translation-into-ukrainian-touches-souls-i-suppose/. Thursday, November 10, 2022. 6:30-10:30 PM. “Down the Rhyming Road”: 50th Anniversary of the Writer-in-Residence Program. Museum London. Contact: Jessica Schagerl (jschage@uwo.ca) Join me on https://pennkemp.substack.com and on https://pennkemp.wordpress.com/ https://twitter.com/pennkemp www.facebook.com/pennkemppoet See also https://playwrightsguild.ca/paupress/profile/penn-kemp/view/. Now Out: "When Hours Hover Over Ours", Battered Luggage: Celebrating Jack Kerouac, 100th Anniversary, Canadian Beat Scene Publishing "Homing". Close Up: Poems on Cancer, Grief, Hope and Healing, anthology, orchardleapress.com. https://orchardleapress.com/shop/. The poem is up on https://pennkemp.wordpress.com/2022/10/17/homing/. "Having lost my husband in the Fall, 2021, I’ve been overwhelmed with conflicting and tumultuous feelings as I explore the nature of illness... and of death. For me, those feelings are most accurately articulated in poetry. A poem (or any work of art) allows both artist and audience to appreciate the nuances of emotions responding to illness in a heart-felt, heart-opening way that transcends subjective experience in a shared empathy. Poetry is an expression of deep intimacy and the connection that is so desperately needed now." “Cancel Culture,” Best Canadian Poetry 2023. Editor John Barton. Biblioasis. Fall, 2022. “How appropriate that my piece for my beloved Gavin Stairs came out on his yahrzeit in the glorious Fall issue of Sage-ing: the Journal of Creative Aging. My "Harvesting the Whirlwind" is on pages 32-34. Three other contributors to our anthology POEMS IN RESPONSE TO PERIL are featured, including Patricia Keeney and Susan McCaslin and Antoinette Voute Roeder! Coincidence? Hope in the Time of Covid”, Missing link: On the Storm/In the Struggle, 6/2022. Editor Adebe DeRango-Adem, League of Canadian Poets chapbooks. https://poets.ca/on-the-storm-in-the-struggle-poets-on-survival/ “Poem for Diane di Prima: WHEN HOURS HOVER OVER OURS”, BATTERED LUGGAGE: Celebrating Kerouac's 100th Anniversary, Canadian Beat Scene Publishing, 2022. Revised from P.S., Gap Riot Press, https://www.gapriotpress.com/archive/penn-kemp-sharon-thesen-ps. Jennifer Wenn has reviewed our chapbook P.S., Gap Riot Press: https://miramichireader.ca/2022/06/p-s-by-penn-kemp-sharon-thesen/ Eco-Poetry: Using Arts to Celebrate the Earth London Public Library's 2022 Environmentalist in Residence Jennifer Chesnut is in conversation with local poet Penn Kemp on how poetry is a way to go beyond our normal perceptions and connect to the wonder of natural spaces that are sacred and magical, and to bring our inner lives and what we feel and value into the public realm. They share favourite poems that celebrate the Earth and nature. Penn's poems from 32.45 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLw0HMtzI2k&list=PLhMxXgVpLqCCOCe__qsXCuASbUEKtTV98&index=4 Also on https://riverrevery.ca/news/ Bio: Penn Kemp has been celebrated as a trailblazer since her first publication (Coach House, 1972). Kemp has long been a keen participant in Canada’s cultural life, with over thirty books of poetry, prose and drama; seven plays and multimedia galore in collaborations like https://riverrevery.ca. She was London Ontario's inaugural Poet Laureate and the League of Canadian Poets’ Spoken Word Artist (2015). Recent works include P.S. (https://www.gapriotpress.com/shop/p/penn-kemp-sharon-thesen-p-s) and Poems in Response to Peril: an anthology for Ukraine, launched in 5/2022. "An Ecology of Intimacy Through the Lens of Poetry" featured on https://poets.ca/npm22-blog-penn-kemp. See www.pennkemp.weebly.com, https://pennkemp.wordpress.com/. Recent Readings: Tuesday, October 11, 7 pm. Art Bar Poetry Series. Our launch of Poems in Response to Peril, @ Clinton’s. Readers included editors Penn and Richard and six more poets from the anthology. Contact Richard-Yves Sitoski, r_sitoski@yahoo.ca. May 28, 2pm EDT). Live Launch! of Poems in Response to Peril: an Anthology in Support of Ukraine (Pendas Productions/Laughing Raven). at Blackfriars Bistro, 46 Blackfriars St, London, ON N6H 1K7, (519) 667-4930. All welcome. Readers: Editors Penn Kemp, Richard-Yves Sitoski, and other local contributors to the anthology like Andreas Gripp, Tanis MacDonald, Frances Roberts Reilly, Shelly Siskind, Solo, and Jennifer Wenn. Thanks to Blackfriars Bistro for their ongoing hospitality! Our anthology in support of #Ukraine is now available at public Libraries in London, Guelph and Owen Sound. Order it for your Library as well and/or your own copy from @r_sitoski@yahoo.ca! Here's our first review, by Catherine Owen: " this essential anthology of voices against decimation is one form of multiple approaches to knowing, in politics, through poetry, for humanity." https://crowgirl11.wordpress.com/2022/05/12/poems-in-response-to-peril-ed-penn-kemp-and-richard-yves-sitoski-pendas-productions-2022/ Out for National Poetry Month! “An Ecology of Intimacy: Through the Lens of Poetry by Penn Kemp”, https://poets.ca/npm22-blog-penn-kemp/. "Our Kind of Intimate", poem. National Poetry Month, League of Canadian Poets, Poetry Pause, #NPM22. https://poets.ca/poetrypause/. "A Gathering of Poets in Response to Peril", https://poets.ca/a-gathering-of-poets-in-response-to-peril/ https://www.inanna.ca/2022/04/18/gathering-voices-in-response-to-peril-penn-kemp-and-susan-mccaslin/ P.S., Gap Riot Press. A collaboration of a year's exchange of poems with Sharon Thesen. https://www.gapriotpress.com/shop/p/penn-kemp-sharon-thesen-p-s. SO much fun to listen to this again: the aesthetic value of Gap Riot! Love that this conversation with Sharon Thesen on P.S. for Gap Riot Press is out in the world. Nudge nudge wink wink:) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9GaY9WwJZo. Thanks Dani Spinosa!: ""What does Gap Riot love more than two women in poetic conversation? It’s when those two women are absolute legends in the world of Canadian poetry, two hugely influential and long-invested contributors and caretakers of our field. In P.S., Kemp and Thesen spend a year writing to each other, once a month, and the result is 24 poems in conversation with each other that explore how poetic conversation works across months, across an ocean, across subjectivities, and across disparate ways of knowing. In the note that accompanies the text, the poets observe that their “ways of knowing are different but validated by one another.” This chapbook is page after page of reaching out, validating, hearing, and trying to understand and know each other. It’s a big ol’ hug of a chapbook, a fiercely feminine conversation we’re so grateful to be able to bring out to you. Printed in a limited run of fifty copies at Product Photo in Toronto, this chapbook has a colour cover in just the right shade of mauve. Cover designed and chapbook typeset by Kate Siklosi." Want a taste of new work from P.S.? Fall, 2021. Three poems, "When Hours Hover Over Ours", "Spring Shoots", "Studies in Extreme", and a tribute to Sharon Thesen in "Passerelles" from the anthology, femme de parole #2: violence et grace, edited by Nancy R. Lange. The poems are translated by Nancy. These poems will be published in my collaboration with Sharon by Gap Riot Press in Spring 2022. And an eloquent review of P.S.: https://periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2022/04/katerina-vaughan-fretwell-ps-by-penn.html Reading on Zoom, Celebrating #NationalPoetryMonth #npm22 Saturday, April 30, 1-2:30 pm EDT. Eco-Poetry: Using the Arts to Celebrate the Earth. With special guest Penn Kemp, explore poems on the theme of the Earth and create your own eco-poem. This reading and workshop is open for all levels of experience. London Public Library zoom. Host: Jennifer Chesnut, Environmentalist-in-Residence. Sponsored by the City of London and the League of Canadian Poets. https://lfpress.com/news/local-news/have-eco-anxiety-librarys-new-environmentalist-in-residence-can-help. Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81787091382?pwd=a3FzSmJqMFhsN0hjSTJMWUU2WHlKQT09 May 28, 2pm EDT). Live Launch! The Launch of Poems in Response to Peril: an Anthology (Pendas Productions/Laughing Raven). at Blackfriars Bistro, 46 Blackfriars St, London, ON N6H 1K7, (519) 667-4930. All welcome. Blackfriars requires masks. Readers: Penn Kemp, Richard-Yves Sitoski, and other local contributors to the anthology like Andreas Gripp and Jennifer Wenn as well as surprise guests. We have 300 pre-orders. Keep ’em coming! Poems in Response to Peril: an Anthology is dedicated to the poets of Ukraine from 48 Canadian poets. New Publications "Poem for the Fairy Creek Elders", Worth More Standing anthology, Caitlin Press, BC. Christine Lowther, editor https://caitlin-press.com/our-books/worth-more-standing/ "Kind of Intimate", "Circling the Gulf", Poets for Ukraine Vol. 1. Editor, David C. Brydges "The Turn", p. 24. Resilience & Recovery: the Wordsfest QuarantAine 2021, http://wordsfest.ca/zine http://wordsfest.ca/assets/images/zines/Quaranzine-Final-compressed.pdf Femmes de Parole #2 . Editor, Nancy R. Lange/ A Near Memoir: new poems (Beliveau Books) launched on Earth Day: https://beliveaubooks.wixsite.com/home/books. Four poems from A Near Memoir (“Drawing Conclusions”, “A Convoluted Etymology of the Course Not Taken”, “Celebrating Souwesto Trees” & “You There”) appear in Beliveau Review, Vol. 2 No. 2 Issue 5, out now on https://beliveaubooks.wixsite.com/home/magazines. New Videopoems and Readings on Video POETS in RESPONSE to PERIL an anthology in support of Ukraine. Featured poets from our anthology and more are up on https://www.youtube.com/user/veggiemeister/playlists. "Toward", https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkxEXftEj4k&list=PLDARA01MjoyW7WccH9j6yGtI3XZhcE0BD&index=40 "Shock and Disbelief", https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqEczOl0OyQ&list=PLDARA01MjoyW7WccH9j6yGtI3XZhcE0BD. My reading of two poems for Ukraine from The Free Press: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqEczOl0OyQ A video of reading my poem, "Homage to Ellen S. Jaffe, Poet". Listen to it on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7cg9x23dv8&t=12. "Arms And the Boy" https://www.youtube.com/user/veggiemeister/playlists. "Kind of Intimate", https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhDPMd4iqlI&t=10s "Our Kind of Intimate", https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhDPMd4iqlI Greetings to Ukraine, with Richard-Yves Sitoski https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYBH2YJc_Ek Homage to Ellen S. Jaffe, Poet”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7cg9x23dv8&t=15s My reading of two poems for Ukraine from The Free Press: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqEczOl0OyQ The videopoem, “The Female Line”. Heavy Feather, https://youtube.com/watch?v=p9-gmOaY1P0… with Gary Barwin and my text/voice. The videopoem, "Becoming", is up on https://youtu.be/z5INYt3Y4Xk. "Becoming", my poem matched with Jim Kemp's painting for 80mL Exhibition to celebrate Museum London's 80th Birthday. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kj2VJRG1s9AB5BwrMtls0sOBa7sNWCaf/view?ts=60ff873a. See http://80ml.museumlondon.ca/exhibition/untitled-kemp/ and https://www.ekphrastic.net/ekphrastic-journal/becoming-by-penn-kemp for both poem and image “Becoming” originated in my poem written in response to my father’s painting followed by Bill’s music and imagery: truly very meta art about art about art. "Night Orchestra" is a videopoem written and performed by sound poet Penn Kemp with music and sound design by composer Bill Gilliam: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98OEWklDcYY. The visual editing is by Gera Dillon using stock footage by No Copyright Videos and other sources. Title background image by Jim Kemp. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNC2sbZGp3c&t=6s A Fave: Dennis Siren's video poem of my "Translation", https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMqzgfLJtws&t=4s Essays “An Ecology of Intimacy: Through the Lens of Poetry by Penn Kemp”, https://poets.ca/npm22-blog-penn-kemp/. "Our Kind of Intimate", poem. National Poetry Month, League of Canadian Poets, Poetry Pause, #NPM22. https://poets.ca/poetrypause/. "A Gathering of Poets in Response to Peril", https://poets.ca/a-gathering-of-poets-in-response-to-peril/ https://www.inanna.ca/2022/04/18/gathering-voices-in-response-to-peril-penn-kemp-and-susan-mccaslin/ “As the World Turns,” On 12/12/21, how wonderful to receive my piece for Gavin and Ula kin a vibrant new issue of SAGE-ING, p. 14. http://www.sage-ing.com/Sage-ing39.pdf! Number 38, Winter 2021. https://poets.ca/2021/06/24/remembering-heather-spears/ SUSTAINING CONNECTION", Penn Kemp and Richard-Yves Sitoski”. Sage-ing With Creative Spirit, Grace and Gratitude. http://www.sageing.ca/sageing37.html, P. 25. Number 37, Summer 2021. Reviews "Reads for International Women's Day and on..." https://pennkemp.wordpress.com/2022/03/08/reads-for-international-womens-day-2/ Books Read and Recommended 2021, https://pennkemp.wordpress.com/2021/12/31/3465/ https://pennkemp.wordpress.com/2021/07/01/3-haunting-new-canadian-novels/ https://periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2021/08/kim-fahner-near-memoir-new-poems-penn.html August 4 https://poets.ca/2021/07/06/review-a-near-memoir-new-poems-by-penn-kemp/ by Katerina Fretwell Memoria Tenere: Penn Kemp’s A Near Memoir: New Poems Number 37, Summer 2021by Richard-Yves Sitoski. http://www.sage-ing.com/Sage-ing37.pdf Forthcoming Poems POEMS IN RESPONSE TO PERIL, Pendas Productions/ Laughing Raven "When Friends Introduced Me" and "Gift for Granted", Canadian Woman Studies. Inanna Publications. "Cancel Culture", Best Canadian Poetry 2022, Biblioasis. November 2022. John Barton, guest editor, and Anita Lahey, series editor. The fifty best poems published by Canadian poets in the preceding calendar year. “Homing”, Orchard Lea Books anthology, Australia. https://orchardleapress.com/ Rose a Rose, 2023. Chapbook, Rose Garden Press, Michelle Arnett and Michele Vanderwal, Mount Brydges ON. www.rosegardenpress.ca. hello@rosegardenpress.ca Published poems are up now on https://pennkemp.wordpress.com/2021/06/29/for-those-without-air-conditioning/ https://pennkemp.wordpress.com/2021/06/25/for-ula-on-graduating-grade-8/ https://pennkemp.wordpress.com/2021/06/23/issue-four-wednesdays-man-by-penn-kemp/ https://pennkemp.wordpress.com/2021/06/19/sage-ing-summer-2021/ https://pennkemp.wordpress.com/2021/06/12/resistance-an-anthology-2/ https://pennkemp.wordpress.com/2021/06/09/heraclitus-ongoing-a-poem/ https://pennkemp.wordpress.com/2021/05/15/three-feminist-poems/ https://pennkemp.wordpress.com/2021/05/11/resistance-an-anthology/ https://pennkemp.wordpress.com/2021/05/04/becoming/ https://pennkemp.wordpress.com/2021/04/27/last-poem-for-national-poetry-month-2021/ Poetry: “Dichte” and “Cancel Culture”, EVENT 50+2, October 2021. https://www.eventmagazine.ca/shop/product/current-issue/event-502/ http://www.eventmagazine.ca Two poems: “Massif” for Emily Carr and “Canvassing Landscape” for Georgia O’Keefe in “ARRIVING AT YOUR OWN DOOR”. Sageing 38, p. 38. September 2021. http://www.sageing.ca/sageing38.html "Trash Talk", "River Revery", https://www.watchyourhead.ca/. Editor Kathryn Mockler “Wednesday’s Man”, THE THE. Catherine Owen, editor and commentator. June 22, 2021. Issue 4. https://thethe128597508.wordpress.com/ "Heraclitus, Ongoing", 8th issue of Beliveau Review, 2021, https://beliveaubooks.wixsite.com/home/magazines "Spring CorresponDance", “Mary and Her Men”, Beliveau Review. https://beliveaubooks.wixsite.com/home/magazines, 7th issue Poetry London chose my poem, “Called, Culled, Chosen, Caught”, as the 2nd place winner of their 2021 contest, up on https://poetrylondon.ca/poetry-contest/. A video reading is up on https://vimeo.com/542243070. Judge Phil Hall wrote: “Jack Spicer used the metaphor of poet as radio, picking up frequencies. Here he is invoked by synchronicity, and then rejected. This poem thinks fast from line to line as it plays at tuning, then finds and defends its stance. It uses space to imply a hesitation of steps— not by logic, but by something close to it — logic's intuition— as based in the writing act.” Three poems, “Frida Kahlo on Exhibit”, “Invocation” and “Her Orbit of Ellipsis” are now up on Necro Productions #5, Feminism, Spring 2021.https://necroproductions.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Fem-v3.pdf “Called, Culled, Chosen, Caught”, for Gregory Betts, Blew Candle, Semanti$ Press, April 2021 "What we did not know in 1972. What we know now.” Resistance Anthology: Righteous Rage in the Age of #Metoo. Sue Goyette, editor. University of Regina Press, Spring 2021. https://uofrpress.ca/Books/R/Resistance. “Strike/Struck/ Stroke”, These Days Zine #10, Jeff Blackman, publisher, thesedayszine2020@gmail.com. https://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/HorsebrokePress?coupon=EIGHTNINETEN “Drawing Conclusions”, “A Convoluted Etymology of the Course Not Taken”, “Celebrating Souwesto Trees” and “You There”. Beliveau Review, Vol. 2 No. 2 Issue 5, Spring 2021. https://beliveaubooks.wixsite.com/home/magazines. “To Carry the Heart of Community Wherever You Find Yourself”. Sage-ing With Creative Spirit, Grace and Gratitude, http://www.sageing.ca/sageing36.html, P. 12. Number 36, Spring 2021. "Re:Solution", performed with Anne Anglin. Sound Poetry DJ mix. Limited edition audio cassette. Editors, Andreas Bülhoff & Marc Matter, <andreasbuelhoff@googlemail.com "What Matters", "Studies in Anticipation", "Hope the Thing", Possible Utopias: the Wordsfest Eco Zine, Issue 6. http://www.wordsfest.ca/zine, March 2021. "Tangled”, P. 124-5. “Snarl”, P. 150-1. Voicing Suicide. Daniel G. Scott, editor, voicingsuicide@gmail.com. Ecstasis Editions, 2020. SAGE-ING: Wider and Deeper", P. 9-11. SAGE-ING with Creative Spirit, Grace & Gratitude || The Journal of Creative Aging, Number 35, Winter 2021, http://www.sageing.ca/. “A Short History of Epiphany”, p. 38. https://beliveaubooks.wixsite.com/home/beliveau-review, https://2e8a8d6d-e97c-4235-92c8-7aa31bae0d77.filesusr.com/ugd/830f0d_846ba1cde5be4432a8eeccec45b5cfb5.pdf “The Choice to Take or to Receive: Bounty”, p. 37. https://beliveaubooks.wixsite.com/home/beliveau-review, https://2e8a8d6d-e97c-4235-92c8-7aa31bae0d77.filesusr.com/ugd/830f0d_846ba1cde5be4432a8eeccec45b5cfb5.pdf “For bpNichol”, Echolocations Magazine #18, https://www.echolocationmagazine.com/. Recording: https://www.instagram.com/tv/CF0fI3tA1ef/?igshid=5unlmzn1xl97 @ 52.15. “List List”, Sad Girl Review, Issue 5, www.sadgirlreview.com. “The Social Life of Trees”, in Ariel Gordon’s #TreeTalk: Domestic Pandemic. “Choice”, Train Poetry Journal. October 5, 2020 https://trainpoetryjournal.blogspot.com/2020/10/poem.html?spref=pi My poem, "Believe" is in the "Poem in Your Pocket Day" booklet: http://poets.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/NPM20_Booklet.pdf Recently Published Play Info Here's the update of my work of Playwright Biography Project: https://cwrc.ca/islandora/object/cwrc%3A53bf983f-2025-4c27-ae1e-86ddb0e11645, August 2020. https://www.pledgeproject.ca/plays/angel-makers/ https://www.canadianplayoutlet.com/products/angel-makers https://www.pledgeproject.ca/plays/the-triumph-oh-teresa-harris/ Recently on Wordpress https://pennkemp.wordpress.com/2021/09/10/a-tree-poem-a-day-to-protect-our-ancient-ecosystems/ https://pennkemp.wordpress.com/2021/07/01/3-haunting-new-canadian-novels/ https://pennkemp.wordpress.com/2021/05/23/spring-correspondance/https://pennkemp.wordpress.com/2021/05/04/becoming/ https://pennkemp.wordpress.com/2021/05/15/three-feminist-poems/ https://pennkemp.wordpress.com/2021/05/11/resistance-an-anthology/ https://pennkemp.wordpress.com/2021/04/27/last-poem-for-national-poetry-month-2021/ https://pennkemp.wordpress.com/2021/04/20/a-near-memoir-new-poems/ https://pennkemp.wordpress.com/2021/04/10/april-poetry-with-penn-kemp-pals https://pennkemp.wordpress.com/2021/03/07/choose-to-challenge/ https://pennkemp.wordpress.com/2021/01/13/forthcoming-events-with-penn-kemp/ https://pennkemp.wordpress.com/2021/02/15/family-day-so-far-away/ https://pennkemp.wordpress.com/2021/02/14/my-valentine/ https://pennkemp.wordpress.com/2021/02/01/for-groundhog-day-for-persephone/ https://pennkemp.wordpress.com/2020/12/21/poem-for-solstice-night-5/ https://pennkemp.wordpress.com/2020/12/09/holiday-recommendations/ https://pennkemp.wordpress.com/2020/11/21/sounds-of-trance-formation/ https://pennkemp.wordpress.com/2020/04/12/a-panacea-of-poems-in-the-pandemic/ https://pennkemp.wordpress.com/2020/11/06/on-reading-new-work-by-canadian-women-novelists/ https://pennkemp.wordpress.com/2020/10/27/wonder-woman-2/ https://pennkemp.wordpress.com/2020/10/24/a-poem-for-apples/ https://pennkemp.wordpress.com/2020/10/03/penn-letter-for-october-2020/ https://pennkemp.wordpress.com/2020/08/31/31booksinaugust/ Recent Awards London Arts Council awarded me a 2020 City of London's Community Arts Investment Program grant for memoir. Catherine Owen awarded me THE FIRST ANNUAL MUTTSY AWARD FOR RENEGADE CREATORS 2020 in honour of Joe Rosenblatt. Recent Reviews Miguel Nenevé, “River Revery: Penn Kemp nos convida a caminhar junto ao Rio Thames”, October 2021 https://periodicos.ufpel.edu.br/ojs2/index.php/interfaces/article/view/21800 https://periodicos.ufpel.edu.br/ojs2/index.php/interfaces/article/view/21800/13618 Andreas Gripp's review of Local Heroes is up in Beliveau Review's first issue (August 6, 2020), along with two new poems: https://beliveaubooks.wixsite.com/home/beliveau-review. Jennifer Wenn, Local Heroes, the League of Canadian Poets' STANZA, p.10-13. https://issuu.com/canadianpoets/docs/stanza_16.4_winter_2019, http://poets.ca/community/reviews/ http://poets.ca/2020/01/23/local-heroes/ RIVER REVERY Mary McDonald's entrancing video poem, “Wishing Well”, was selected from nearly 2000 submissions by the programme commission to be a part of the ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival. The ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival took place from 19 to 22 November 2020 in the Kino in der KulturBrauerei in Berlin. You can see Mary McDonald’s animation and my text on https://riverrevery.ca/text-of-river-revery/wishing-well/! “Wishing Well” was shown at Lyra, Bristol Poetry Festival in the Poetry Film Section of the 2020 Newlyn PZIFF, http://liberatedwords.com/2020/02/29/poetry-films-for-the-environment-at-lyra-bristol-14-march/ and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dofZI09cpf8. "Believe" and “Wishing Well” are published in River Revery, Insomniac Press, with q.r. codes to http://riverrevery.ca. Bill Arnott published a glorious review in The Miramichi Review, https://miramichireader.ca/2020/02/river-revery-poems-penn-kemp/ My latest book, RIVER REVERY (Insomniac Press) was featured in the virtual Wordsfest: The book was launched Nov. 2 2019 at Wordsfest, Museum London Theatre, London ON. http://wordsfest.ca/events/2019/diana-beresford-kroeger-penn-kemp-in-conversation. Delightful to be "In Conversation" with Diana for this hour! She's doing such essential work on forests. Our moderator was Nina Desjardins. Videographer Dennis Siren caught the magic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf_apKTzpgQ&t=126s. For orders, see https://www.amazon.ca/River-Revery-Penn-Kemp/dp/1554832381. Penn’s reading from River Revery was sponsored by The League of Canadian Poets. https://pennkemp.wordpress.com/2019/09/15/river-revery/. The Free Press captured the spirit of RIVER REVERY on https://lfpress.com/entertainment/books/london-poet-helps-explore-identity-at-wordsfest. RIVER REVERY, my collaboration with media artist extraordinaire Mary McDonald! Animations to the poems are up on RiverRevery.ca as well as news about the poetry films: they are shown in festivals everywhere! You can add to this community project on #RiverReveryLdn. An Augmented Reality, multimedia animation collaboration, with thanks to @LdnArtsCouncil #CommunityArtsInvestmentProgram Insomniac Press published RIVER REVERY in Fall, 2019. QR codes in River Revery link to multimedia work, thus expanding the experience of poetry in exciting ways. Mary presented the poetry films of River Revery in Spring 2019 at Open Educational Resources Conference, Galway, Ireland; and Reel Poetry Festival (Houston, Texas). River Revery was introduced as a model for engagement in exploring the impact and potential of community participation in arts collaborations. International Exposure! River Revery was also shown at Newlyn Film Festival (Penzance, UK); London Central Library for “Gathering Voices” with me in National Poetry Month 2019; and Museum London during Wordsfest 2018. River Revery Review by Katerina Fretwell: .A DAZZLING MULTI-MEDIA RESPONSE TO OUR CHANGING CLIMATE: "River Revery is both the name of Penn Kemp's latest poetry collection and the name of a multimedia collaboration between Kemp, Mary McDonald and Dennis Siren. The book is a masterful companion to McDonald's video poems and photographs and Siren's videos, which are included in the collection through QR codes. Complemented by these other works, Kemp's intimately observed natural interactions are topically poignant, given the climate cataclysms hovering over earth. In performance and in her book, Kemp leads the reader/viewer into an appreciation and comprehension of what we have lost and will lose through playful trickster words and alliteration." From http://arcpoetry.ca/2020/07/12/rim-revery-penn-kemp/ Review of RIVER REVERY by Bill Arnott: http://poets.ca/2020/01/23/penn-kemp/ https://pennkemp.wordpress.com/2019/12/19/this-review-made-my-day/. "River Revery is a beautiful book. Thank you, and well done. Utilizing the mixed media is exceptional… , a very cool mixed media project." Bill Arnott Harold Rhenish has explored text from River Revery in intricate detail on several of his extraordinary blogs: https://okanaganokanogan.com/2018/12/03/reading-penn-kemp-and-the-world-the-role-of-poetry-in-civic-planning/ and https://okanaganokanogan.com/2019/02/13/repaired-post-towards-a-new-cartography-part-3-the-strength-of-oral-story-telling/. Harold's blogs are essential, transformative reading. Recently Published Prose “Collaborating: Interconnecting: Responding”, Fall 2020. http://www.sage-ing.com/Sage-ing34.pdf "SAGE-ING SISTERS IN SPIRIT", Sage-ing: The Journal of Creative Aging, http://www.sage-ing.com/Sage-ing31ONLINE.pdf Dialogue Magazine, Vol. 33-4, Summer 2020. pp. 35-6, p.2. http://www.dialogue2.ca/ "Notes from the Lunar Plexus," Dialogue Magazine, Vol. 33-3, Spring 2020. pp. 33-35. With cover painting by Anne Anglin from Barbaric Cultural Practice, Quattro Books. "Remembering Forward", Sage-ing: The Journal of Creative Aging, http://www.sage-ing.com/Sage-ing31ONLINE.pdf, pp. 44-8 “The Forks of a River: Y and Y Not”. P. 24. www.dialogue.ca, Vol. 33-1. Autumn 2019. http://www.dialogue2.ca Mary McDonald’s cover art for River Revery. P. 2, Vol. 33-1. "Youth Ongoing and Aging To Come". P. 22-23. www.dialogue.ca, Vol. 33-1. Autumn 2019. http://www.dialogue2.ca https://issuu.com/janetkhicks/docs/dialoguemagazine-digital-v33-1-autumn2019 "Invoking the Goddess to Dream With Us”, Goddess Pages, https://www.goddess-pages.co.uk/invoking-the-goddess-to-dream-with-us/ "Youth Ongoing and Aging To Come". www.dialogue.ca, Vol. 33-1. Autumn 2019. http://www.dialogue2.ca https://okunhill.wordpress.com/2019/09/03/introducing-naming-the-shadows-by-sharon-berg/ http://porcupinesquill.ca/bookinfo6.php?index=348 "Art & Action-- Transformation", http://www.dialogue2.ca/about-dialogue-magazine.html https://issuu.com/janetkhicks/docs/dialogue-v32-4-2019-digital https://pennkemp.wordpress.com/2019/07/31/a-novels-law-of-attraction/ “Sveva Caetani, Catalyst for Creativity”, SAGE-ING with Creative Spirit, Grace & Gratitude || The Journal of Creative Aging, hhttp://www.sageing.ca/sageing29. “Poems for the Pandemic”. Dialogue Magazine, Vol. 33-4, Summer 2020, http://www.dialogue.ca, https://issuu.com/janetkhicks/docs/dial-33-4-june28-2020-issuu. “Believe”, League of Canadian Poets’ Poem in Your Pocket contest and booklet, www.poets.ca. “The Transient Zinnia”, “Longshore Drift into Morning”, “What Matters”, Dialogue Magazine, Vol. 33-2, Winter 2019-20, www.dialogue.ca. https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?tab=rm&ogbl#inbox/FMfcgxwGCbDZsLVJGmJkGVtvfRRNpqrT?projector=1&messagePartId=0.1 “Won 4 bill bissett”, what fuckan birthday, lootbag for billfest, November 16, 2019Editorial advisor, Prairie Journal, www.prairiejournal.org "The Nature of Food", CuiZine, http://wordsfest.ca/assets/images/zines/wordsfestzine-2019-A.pdf, WordsFest 2019, London ON. Poems for the Pandemic”. Dialogue Magazine, http://www.dialogue.ca. Summer, 2020 "Double Vision i and ii”. http://www.dialogue2.ca, Vol. 33-1. Autumn 2019. “How Endings Multiply” – September 25, 2019, Poetry Pause from Fox Haunts. Poetry Pause, http://poets.ca/poetrypause/ “Along the Line” and “On the Other Hand of Time”, Cold Strawberries Collective Alternative Magazine, first issue, 2019. “For Wonder and for Wild”, Dialogue, Fall, 2019. http://www.dialogue2.ca/about-dialogue-magazine.html https://issuu.com/janetkhicks/docs/dialogue-v32-4-2019-digital "Scaling the Colour Bar", feature. Lackadaisy, Spring/Summer 2019 Issue One, https://www.instagram.com/p/By34w0ihX4e/. "Enter the Painting" and "A Possessive Case" online, Twitter and Instagram. www.lackadaisylitmag.com “Belief”, Universal Oneness: An Anthology of Magnum Opus Poems from around the World: (360 poems by 360 poets from 60 Countries). Dr Vivekanand Jha, Editor. Authorspress, New Delhi, India, 2019. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1luUEqcT84-4jSlJvYx6QGCQY-JEi9Kkn/view, P. 383. “On the Nature of Intelligence” – June 18, 2019, Poetry Pause, http://poets.ca/2019/06/18/on-the-nature-of-intelligence-by-penn-kemp/ "Christmas at the Equator", Acta Victoriana, Spring issue, 2019, vol 143.2. “Winds Chime”, SAGE-ING The Journal of Creative Aging, hhttp://www.sageing.ca/sageing29 "Waving Hands at Clouds”, Synaeresis 7, 2019. “Fox Fable”, “Synopsis, Lady into Fox”, and “The Fox That Came to Stay”, Big Pond Rumours, Winter 2019. http://www.big-pond-rumours.com/ "Trance/Verse" and "Berlin, 1945", Canadian Woman Studies, 2019. http://www.cwscf.ca/. Synaeresis 5 (January, 2019) features work by Penn Kemp and Mary McDonald from River Revery. The magazine, edited by Andreas Connell-Gripp, is up on https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/6c7a02_b3f406514bf94296ac6a43bde13ed96e.pdf. “News That Stays News: Thirty-Two Years Ago Today”, Tuck Magazine. http://tuckmagazine.com/2019/01/29/poetry-1951/ More topical poems on http://tuckmagazine.com/tag/penn-kemp/. “All for Art" and "Our Heads in Old Sand", Synaeresis 5, January, 2019. “Art, Action—Transformation” by Penn Kemp and Susan McCaslin https://seasonsfusion.com/2018/11/21/art-action-transformation/ http://tuckmagazine.com/2018/…/23/art-action-transformation/ “Art, Action—Transformation” by Penn Kemp and Susan McCaslin, Inanna Publications, November 29, 2018. https://www.inanna.ca/blog-and-media/blog/art-action-transformation/ Dialogue,. “A Dialogue: Reflections on W.H. Auden’s ‘Poetry Makes Nothing Happen’” by Penn Kemp and Susan McCaslin. Dialogue 4, Vol. 32 #2, P. 30-32. Winter 2018-9, www.dialogue.ca. FOX HAUNTS (Aeolus Press, 2018). Reviews are up on https://pennkemp.wordpress.com/2018/11/04/fox-haunts-reviewed/. “Celebrating Tree”, Heartwood: Poems about Loving Trees, 2018. Anthology of tree poems, fundraiser for The League of Canadian Poets. Editor, Claudia Radmore https://www.amazon.ca/Heartwood-Poems-TreesLesley-Strutt/dp/189621651X #HeartwoodPoet Poem, Another Dysfunctional Cancer Poem Anthology (Mansfield Press). Editors, Meaghan Strimas and Priscila Uppal, 2018. “Flux, Flash, Flood”, “Seeing Red”, GUSH: menstrual manifestos for our times. Editors: Rosanna Deerchild, Ariel Gordon, and Tanis MacDonald. Frontenac House, Calgary, 2018. https://www.frontenachouse.com/dd-product/gush-menstrual-manifestos-for-our-times/ Synaeresis https://harmoniapress.blogspot.com/2018/06/synaeresis-issue-3-now-available.html https://www.scribd.com/document/389868146/Synaeresis-Issue-Four “At the Moment of Equinox”, http://womenspiritualpoetry.blogspot.com/2018/06/at-moment-of-equinox-by-penn-kemp.html http://poetryminiinterviews.blogspot.ca/search/label/Penn%20Kemp with Thomas White “Love ManIfest”, Prairie Fire: the Love Issue. Spring, 2018. https://www.facebook.com/PrairieFireMagazine/videos/1919261081481444/?t=0 https://www.canadianplayoutlet.com/search?q=%22Penn+Kemp%22 https://www.canadianplayoutlet.com/products/the-triumph-of-teresa-harris https://www.canadianplayoutlet.com/products/the-dream-life-of-teresa-harris https://www.canadianplayoutlet.com/products/performing-women https://www.canadianplayoutlet.com/products/what-the-ear-hears-last https://www.canadianplayoutlet.com/products/angel-makers https://www.canadianplayoutlet.com/products/the-epic-of-toad-and-heron Penn's plays about Teresa Harris: https://www.canadianplayoutlet.com/products/the-triumph-of-teresa-harris https://www.canadianplayoutlet.com/products/the-dream-life-of-teresa-harris Penn's poems about Teresa Harris in her new collection, Local Heroes, Insomniac Press, 2018: https://www.amazon.ca/Local-Heroes-Penn-Kemp/dp/1554832063 Penn's essay about Teresa Harris in Women and Multimedia, the anthology Penn edited: http://poets.ca/product/women-and-multimedia/ https://pennkemp.wordpress.com/2019/07/31/a-novels-law-of-attraction/ Playwright Biography Project https://cwrc.ca/islandora/object/cwrc%3A53bf983f-2025-4c27-ae1e-86ddb0e11645“ Re:Solution”, performed with Anne Anglin. Sound Poetry DJ mix. Limited edition audio cassette. Editors, Andreas Bülhoff & Marc Matter, <andreasbuelhoff@googlemail.comHeavy Feather 7 subscribershttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYBH2YJc_Ek https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhDPMd4iqlI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZ1SJW https://rosegardenpress.ca |
May poetry see us through!
Such deep gratitude for the ongoing support and love we have experienced over the last years of turmoil. In the midst of challenges and change, I feel warmly embraced. Much love returned to the community of family, friends and all those generous people whom I haven’t yet met. Thank you for your kindness on so many levels! Look how The London Free Press supports poetry! https://lfpress.com/entertainment/local-arts/poets-are-talking-tough-and-their-words-make-a-difference https://lfpress.com/entertainment/local-arts/loreena-mckennitt-headlining-sold-out-london-benefits-for-ukraine. From words to comfort to action, March 23, 2022. https://www.thelondoner.ca/entertainment/local-arts/london-poet-driving-force-behind-new-anthology-of-poems-about-war-in-ukraine/ https://lfpress.com/entertainment/local-arts/belanger-our-poet-laureates-financial-plight-and-a-call-to-help As every writer, every artist knows, this is a time of diminishing monetary returns....so please buy our work! My books are available from pennkemp@gmail.com or from https://www.amazon.ca/s?k=Penn+Kemp&ref=nb_sb_noss. I'd rather you buy from me than Amazon! See https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/126379.Books_by_Penn_Kemp. Recent Events Eco-Poetry: Using Arts to Celebrate the Earth London Public Library's 2022 Environmentalist in Residence Jennifer Chesnut is in conversation with local poet Penn Kemp on how poetry is a way to go beyond our normal perceptions and connect to the wonder of natural spaces that are sacred and magical, and to bring our inner lives and what we feel and value into the public realm. They share favourite poems that celebrate the Earth and nature. Penn's poems from 32.45 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLw0HMtzI2k&list=PLhMxXgVpLqCCOCe__qsXCuASbUEKtTV98&index=4 Also on https://riverrevery.ca/news/ |
