Please join us tomorrow for a breath of fresh air, a breath of poetry and SPRING!
Host: Jennifer Chesnut, Environmentalist-in-Residence, London Public Library.
With special guest Penn Kemp, explore poems on the theme of Earth and create your own eco-poem. This reading and workshop is open for all levels of experience zoom.
Please click this Zoom link to join the program: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81787091382?pwd=a3FzSmJqMFhsN0hjSTJMWUU2WHlKQT09. You should not need it, but if you do, the Meeting ID for this event is 817 8709 1382 and the Passcode is 595825. The Zoom "Room" will open 5 minutes before the program begins. This program is being recorded. A prize draw is being held for participants of the live program. You can also register with your London Library card:
https://www.londonpubliclibrary.ca/page/environmentalist-residence
These six poems are from Penn Kemp’s RIVER REVERY, Insomniac Press.
https://www.chapters.indigo.ca/en-ca/books/river-revery/9781554832385-item.html
“A Dazzling Multi-Media Response to Our Changing Climate:” https://arcpoetry.ca/2020/07/12/rim-revery-penn-kemp/
Penn Kemp has been celebrated as a trailblazer since her first publication (Coach House, 1972). She was London Ontario's inaugural Poet Laureate and Western University’s Writer-in- Residence. Chosen as the League of Canadian Poets’ Spoken Word Artist (2015), Kemp has long been a keen participant in Canada’s cultural life, with thirty books of poetry, prose and drama; seven plays and multimedia galore. See www.pennkemp.wordpress.com, www.pennkemp.weebly.com.
This event is sponsored by the City of London. Thanks to Jennifer Chesnut for the invitation and the images!
https://lfpress.com/news/local-news/have-eco-anxiety-librarys-new-environmentalist-in-residence-can-help.
https://riverrevery.ca/