Samhain Blessings
Now up!
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://www.hempressbooks.com/angrystarlings.
And a bio, https://www.hempressbooks.com/authors/penn-kemp
Three Incrementally poems, from Night Orchestra”, “Declination”, “Bees Needs”, are in Interpoem: A Visual Anthology. Editor, Laura Kerr, https://sedserio.com/about
E. Ruth Strebe filmed "Night Orchestra" when I was reading it with audience participation that included alpacas and...:)
You can hear more of my techniques on "The Craft of Writing":
Forthcoming
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.
Wednesday, November 1, 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.
Saturday, November 4, 2023, 1pm. Reading for Climate Change, Victoria Park, London ON through our local Power Up event, https://globalpowerup.org/ ~ through 350.org.
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 Readings
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. 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 2O, 2:30pm. A Painterly Poet project at the 2023 Ontario Screen Creators Short Film Pitch Competition, London ON. Robyn Israel, director.
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
September, 2023. Launch of text, Incrementally. Text pm https://www.hempressbooks.com/authors/penn-kemp.Album on https://www.hempressbooks.com/authors/penn-kemp Hempress.