Listen in to 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/
Mark A. Raynor: “A wonderful conversation!”
What a great review! Doesn’t it make you want to read/hear Incrementally?
https://periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2023/10/laura-kerr-incrementally-by-penn-kemp.html
The text of Incrementally (88 pages and free!) is now up on https://www.hempressbooks.com/authors/penn-kemp! Album is on https://angrystarlings.bandcamp.com/ https://www.hempressbooks.com/angrystarlings https://www.hempressbooks.com/authors/penn-kemp Hempress.
Up now, 3 poems from Incrementallly: “from Night Orchestra”, “Declination”, “Bees Needs”, Interpoem: A Visual Anthology. Editor, Laura Kerr, https://sedserio.com/about
FORTHCOMING EVENTS
Wednesday October 11, 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.
Friday, October 2O, 2:30pm. A Painterly Poet project at the 2023 Ontario Screen Creators Short Film Pitch Competition. Robyn Israel, director. DoubleTree by Hilton, 300 King St., London ON.
Saturday, 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 airs it.
October 21, 10 pm, WCMU-NPR Central/North Michigan airs it. The reach is 100,000 listeners!
Saturday, 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.” Contact: Richard Sitoski <r_sitoski@yahoo.ca>. See https://wordsaloud.ca!
Sunday, October 22, 2023. 12:00pm-2:00pm. Performance, Words Aloud, Owen Sound ON. Main stage event, Tom Thomson Art Gallery, Owen Sound. Featuring Barry Dempster, Kim Fahner, Penn Kemp and D.A. Lockhart. Contact: Richard Sitoski <r_sitoski@yahoo.ca>. https://wordsaloud.ca
October 31st to 5th November. “Buenos deseos”/ “Wishing Well” from http://www.riverrevery.ca: the videopoem with Mary McDonald. “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.
Wednesday, November 1, 2023. “favorite reads in 2023”, http://www.shepherd.com
Tuesday, 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
Wednesday, 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
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 Publications 2023
“The Winter Widow i”, “The Winter Widow ii”, stones beneath the surface: a poetry anthology, pp. 44-45.
https://blackmallardpoetry.wixsite.com/home/books. November, 2023.
“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 Alphabet, Barbarian Press, 2023. An Avian Alphabet. Edited by Susan McCaslin, with woodcut prints by Edith Krause.
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/
“from Night Orchestra”, “Declination”, “Bees Needs”, Interpoem: A Visual Anthology. Editor, Laura Kerr, https://sedserio.com/about
“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. . 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/reviews/.
“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/.
Recently…
September 24, 2-4 PM EDT. “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.facebook.com/events/202968835886462. Contact: 10yr100tpcbook@gmail.com
September 21. Patricia Keeney read poems from POEMS IN RESPONSE TO PERIL for “Salute to Ukraine” at the Ryga Arts Festival, http://www.rygafest.ca, Summerland BC.
September 10, 3-5 pm. Reading Among the Alpacas“, with Penn Kemp and 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. Join us for readings of new work at Timbuktu Eco-tourism Farm as alpaca roam about! A happy, peaceful place to meet and mingle with these sweet, curious and friendly animals! Kid friendly! Sponsored by Playwrights Guild of Canada.
https://www.timbuktufarm.com/event-details/reading-among-the-alpacas
https://www.facebook.com/events/790127145919723/
August, 2023. Launch Incrementally. Angry Starlings, Hempress.
https://www.hempressbooks.com/authors/penn-kemp
https://angrystarlings.bandcamp.com/album/incrementally
https://bandcamp.com/pennkemp/
August 23, 2023, 3:30 pm. Benefit for Ukraine: poets read from the anthology, Poems in Response to Peril and a Ukrainian song played by Mary Ashton. Grace Restaurant, 215 Dundas St., London, https://www.gracelondon.ca/. Our host: 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. See 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. 918 Bathurst Centre for Culture, Arts, Media & Education, 918 Bathurst St, Toronto, ON
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. Among the poems performed, Bill and I will perform Night Orchestra”. You can hear an expanded version of Bill’s and my performance of the piece here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98OEWklDcYY.
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. 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 1.231
Forthcoming
“For an Elder, Turning, Returning”, Uproar: Norma West Linder Tribute Issue, https://lawrencehouse.ca/uproar/theme
“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, 2025.
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