✨ New!✨https://booklisti.com/pennkemp
✨https://booklisti.com/booklist/books-penn-kemp-penn-kemp/lxnj6lr ✨https://booklisti.com/booklist/recent-canadian-fiction-women-penn-kemp/lx3a9yv
My annotated recommended list of recent English Canadian women’s fiction for International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month.
✨ “After the Cull” and “Devotion”. Synaeresis #23, pp. 14-15. April 2024, https://beliveaubooks.wixsite.com/home/magazines, https://2e8a8d6d-e97c-4235-92c8-7aa31bae0d77.filesusr.com/ugd/830f0d_fd5cfc8dc493496eb85acb418f658fe4.pdf
✨ Spring, 2024: “Searching For His Original Face”, Sage-ing With Creative Spirit, Grace and Gratitude, #48, https://www.sageing.ca/ https://www.sage-ing.com/Sage-ing48.pdf
✨“The Lords and Ladies of the Fermi Bubbles”, a collaborative poem with Harol Rhenisch. Masque & Spectacle, An arts & literary journal,
https://masqueandspectaclejournal.wordpress.com/2024/03/01/the-lords-and-ladies-of-the-fermi-bubbles-penn-kemp-and-harold-rhenisch/
✨Interview on CV2 with me about Incrementally by Sophie Guillas:
https://contemporaryverse2.ca/interviews/an-interview-with-penn-kemp/
✨Poems for my beloved granddaughter, Ula Podesta Chalmers:
https://pennkemp.wordpress.com/2023/12/13/for-ula-two-poems/
✨ECH Presents: A Community of Trees. Embassy Cultural House. Online exhibit launch, www.embassyculturalhouse.ca/a-community-of-trees. My piece is “Celebrating Souwesto Trees”.
✨ “The Big Ask”, the Transitions issue, Uproar,
https://lawrencehouse.ca/the-big-ask/
✨“Losing the Vernacular”, with image by Jim Kemp. The Vernacular Journal,
https://vernacularjournal.com/On-Losing-the-Vernacular, Winter 2024
✨Jim Andrews from Vancouver included my poem “Lethologica” in his wondrous See of Po series: https://seaofpo.vispo.com?p=pk. And on Jim Andrews’s manifesto, manual, and magazine, https://vispo.com/writings/essays/Sea_of_Po2.pdf: P. 61. For Sea of Po, I wanted to write a language poem that would lend itself to animation, to movement, to be read in swirls, side to side, and yet form couplets. Hence, Lethologica, so that the word is not lost in Lethe’s forgetful current, but is re-imagined as image, as colour.
✨Forthcoming Publications
✨ Spring, 2024: Interview with me by Richard Capener, Hem Press
✨ May, 2024: “After the Cull” and “Devotion”, Synaeresis: arts + poetry https://beliveaubooks.wixsite.com, https://beliveaubooks.wixsite.com/home/magazines
✨ “The Conference of the Birds” with Harold Rhenisch, Canadian Literature, 2024
✨Upcoming In-person Readings
✨ Sunday, April 28, 2-4pm. Reading among the Alpacas by Penn Kemp and Katie Jeresky with cellist Luc Julian. 2211 Egremont Drive, RR5 Strathroy ON, N7G 3H6. Contact: Thandi, info@timbuktufarms.com. By donation. See https://www.timbuktufarm.com/event-details/poetry-readings-alpacas.
✨ Wednesday, June 5, 6:30-8pm. Black Mallard Reading Series features Penn Kemp and D.A. Lockhart, Mykonos Restaurant, 572 Adelaide St. N., London. World Environment Day! Penn’s reading is sponsored by the League of Canadian Poets and the Canada Council for the Arts. Free. https://blackmallardpoetry.wixsite.com/home.
✨ Saturday, June 15, 10:30-11:30am. Sounds of the Forest: Music and Poetry Reading at Meadowlily Nature Reserve on the south side of the Thames River between Highbury Avenue and Meadowlily Road, London, ON N6G 2N5. Passport to Nature in support of Thames Talbot Land Trust, https://www.thamestalbotlandtrust.ca/passport_to_nature. Free.
✨ Monday, September 23, 2024, 7pm. Art Bar Reading Series, Free Times Café, 320 College Street. Toronto, ON M5T 1S3 w. of Markham. Features Penn Kemp, Contact: (416) 967-1078 artbarpoetry@gmail.com. https://www.artbarpoetryseries.com/post/upcoming-events. $10.00.
✨Now up!
Intent on Flowering, anthology, Rose Garden Press, 2024. Contributing poets: Katie Jeresky, Penn Kemp and Jessica Lee McMillan. This remarkable collection is curated by Rose Garden Press for their handprinted book. Contact: hello@rosegardenpress.ca, Michelle Arnett and Michele Vanderwal @rosegarden_press. To order: https://rosegardenpress.ca/intent-on-flowering/. Chapbooks are available @rosegarden_press.
Check out:
✨Catherine Owen, Episode 5, “Performing your Poetry”.
https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/catherine960/episodes/Episode-5-Performing-your-Poetry-e2f9etr . She draws from my piece, “Performing Your Work”,
https://poets.ca/performing-your-work/.
✨Kevin Spenst, “Chuffed About Chapbooks” on my project, “Poem for Peace in Many Voices”. SubTerrain issue #95, 2024.
✨Recent Launches
✨March 1, 2004, 1pm EST. ECH Presents: A Community of Trees. Embassy Cultural House. Online exhibit launch, www.embassyculturalhouse.ca/a-community-of-trees. Artists participating in the exhibit will discuss their work. Curators Emmy Meredith, Ron Benner, Jamelie Hassan and Olivia Mossuto. My piece is up here: https://pennkemp.wordpress.com/2016/05/04/poem-to-celebrate-our-trees/.
✨February 25, 12:30-1:30pm EST. Penn Kemp and Katie Jeresky read from INTENT ON FLOWERING with cellist Luc Julian in Heeman’s Greenhouse, 20422 Nissouri Road, Thorndale Juna Guetter writes: “Just returned from this beautiful event! A lovely poetry reading with Katie Jeresky and Penn Kemp along with the musical accompaniment by Luc Julian celebrating Spring! Great to see and hear such talent weaving together in sweet collaboration! Many thanks!!! 🙏😍”
✨February 10, 2024. Book launch and poetry reading from Rose Garden Press’s new release, Intent on Flowering, with three poets: Penn Kemp, Katie Jeresky and Jessica Lee McMillan. On the Lunar New Year! Missed this lovely weaving of voices? Here it is https://fb.watch/q7u_oWXOJq/ ! Thanks @RoseGardenPress! Special #thanks to @JoshLambier, https://wordsfest.ca/
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