Penn’s Muse News
for a Shimmering September
2009
Tune in... Sound On...
Now
embrace the whole
green planet.
It is possible
to be that large.
The time is come.
It is not just
possible.
It is necessary.
Penn’s poem is from Re:Vision,
a Seasonal Song Cycle of Ecco Poetry.
Song written and
performed by Brenda McMorrow.
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Writer-in-Residence
Penn is the James A. and Marjorie Spenceley /
Canada Council Writer-in-Residence at Western for 2009-10. If you're in
the London ON area, come visit with your writing.
Contact
Vivian Foglton (519-661-3403 or vlavers@uwo.ca) for an appointment to discuss
your works of poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction and/or drama with Penn. It's free! Send submissions
(up to ten pages, double-spaced, submitted one week prior to scheduled
appointment) to Vivian Foglton, Secretary, Department of English, University
College, Room 173, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, N6A 3K7. Office
hours: Wednesdays, 12:30 pm –3:30 pm. Thursdays, 12:30 pm - 3:30 pm., UC
171.
Wednesday, September 16 through Thursday, November 26.
Wednesday,
January 13 through Thursday, March 25
See also http://www.uwo.ca/english/
As
part of the residency, Penn is hosting Gathering
Voices, an eclectic literary show of readings and interviews on Radio
Western, CHRW 94.9 FM. Gathering Voices airs every second
Wednesday starting September 2 from 6-6:30 pm and on www.chrwradio.com. On alternate Wednesdays, catch the show from
6:30-7 am. Archives of past interviews
and Penn’s sound operas are now up on chrwradio.com/talk/gatheringvoices.
Interviews, sound operas, writing exercises, poems in translation...
Sound Opera is a new form Penn developed in performance and recording with
collaborators in a desire to lift poetry off the page to the stage. Sound
Opera is based on text but it expands poetic possibilities to include voice,
music and computer manipulation to express narrative when emotions burst the
seams of print. Poetry as performance on
radio works because it is primarily aural, true to its origins around a
Neolithic fire.
Penn’s
own project for the residency is Ecco poetry, a genre-bending compilation of
poems devoted to our MotherWorld that will culminate in a book, a CD and a DVD.
Jeff Renaud,
Media Relations Officer, has done an interview and a video on Penn for Western
Media Relations, http://communications.uwo.ca/com.
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Upcoming Events
Penn is
hosting Gathering Voices, an eclectic literary show of readings and
interviews on Radio Western, CHRW. Gathering Voices airs every second
Wednesday live on 94.9 FM and on www.chrwradio.com/listen.
Archives of past interviews and
Penn’s sound operas are now up on chrwradio.com/talk/gatheringvoices. ....
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Wednesday,
September 2, 6-6:30 pm, 2009. Show
#1: Introducing Gathering Voices: Ben
Benedict’s interview with Penn: “A Daughter returns: Life and Art in London,
Ontario”.....
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Tuesday,
September 8, 2009, 7:30 pm, 2009. The
Writers’ Union of Canada gathering with Erna Paris, TWUC chair, and Larry
Scanlan, Ontario’s rep on National Council.
525 Canterbury Road, London. Writers
welcome. Contact: Penn, 519 434 8555,
penn@pennkemp.ca.....
Wednesday, September
9, 6-6:30 am, 2009. Show #1: Introducing
Gathering Voices: Ben Benedict’s
interview with Penn (R). ....
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Wednesday,
September 16, 12:30-3:30 pm, 2009.
Office hours, Writer-in-residence, UC 171. Contact: Vivian Foglton (519-661-3403 or vlavers@uwo.ca)
for an appointment. ....
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Wednesday, September
16, 6-6:30 pm, 2009. Show #2: Penn’s interview with Leona Graham, http://brideswell.com/content/?p=302.....
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Thursday,
September 17, 2009, 12:30-3:30 pm, 2009.
Office hours, Writer-in-residence. Contact: Vivian Foglton (519-661-3403
or vlavers@uwo.ca) for an appointment. ....
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Sunday,
September 20, 2009, 3-4 pm. Re:Vision, a Seasonal Song Cycle for
Luminous Entrance with
Penn and Brenda McMorrow. The 3rd Annual
Words Alive Literary Festival, Sharon Temple National Historic Site, Sharon,
Ontario. www.wordsalive.ca, www.wordsalive.ca/speakers/. Contact: cheryl@candrewsgroup.com, Edward Fenner 416.736.2100 x 40635. $5. Sponsor:
the League of Canadian Poets.....
Read
a rave review of this production of Ecco Poetry on http://didiodatoc.blogspot.com/,
August 16.....
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Monday,
September 21, 2009, (Leonard's 75th birthday).
Launch of Leonard Cohen: You're
Our Man--75 poets reflect on the poetry of Leonard Cohen. For details, contact editor Jack J. Locke, Foundation
for Public Poetry/Fondation Poésie Publique, publicpoetry@gmail.com, www.publicpoetry.wordpress.com
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Wednesday,
September 23, 12:30-3:30 pm, 2009.
Office hours, Writer-in-residence, UC 171. Contact: Vivian Foglton (519-661-3403 or vlavers@uwo.ca)
for an appointment. ....
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Wednesday, September
23, 6-6:30 am, 2009. Show #2: (R). See below, October 4, The Great Returning: Inhabiting Our MotherWorld. ....
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Thursday,
September 24, 2009, 12:30-3:30 pm, 2009.
Office hours, Writer-in-residence. Contact: Vivian Foglton (519-661-3403
or vlavers@uwo.ca) for an appointment. ....
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Friday, Sept 25, 2009, 12:00 noon.
Amazing Tree Quest Awards Luncheon,
Museum London, 421 Ridout St. N., London ON. Tickets are $25. Contact 519 661 5095 or jbaechler@london.ca for more
information. Penn opens the event with her ode to trees. Ivan Listar,
our urban forester, gives his “state of the forest” address.
Wednesday,
September 30, 12:30-3:30 pm, 2009.
Office hours, Writer-in-residence, UC 171. Contact: Vivian Foglton (519-661-3403 or vlavers@uwo.ca)
for an appointment. ....
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Wednesday, September
30, 6-6:30 pm, 2009. Show #3. Gathering Voice (book/cd, Pendas
Productions) by Gloria Alvernaz Mulcahy and Penn, performed with Anne Anglin.....
Thursday,
October 1, 2009, 12:30-3:30 pm, 2009.
Office hours, Writer-in-residence. ....
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The Great Returning: Inhabiting Our MotherWorld. Sunday with Leona Graham and Penn Kemp. An experiential workshop dedicated to
empowering the individual to attune to our Great Mother Earth and
life-sustaining, enhancing values. Participants will emerge grounded in realistic
ways and means to face these critical times where the choices we make can make
all the difference.....
How are the arts relevant to
sustainability? How can we articulate
our convictions in ways that move the reader to action? We will help
empower you to write with a short reading to encourage you in your own work,
through the kind of coaching that is only possible in a small group and the safe
setting we provide. A series of exercises on creativity will give
participants direct experience and practical suggestions for spurring the
imagination and honing writing skills. Inspiration will be provided!....
PRESENTERS: Penn and Leona share deep common ground
through decades of friendship and shared experience in various realms-- the
literary arts; community and peace activism; conservation and deep
ecology. Former academics, we have each supported ourselves outside the
mainstream commercial complex since the early 70's. Despite the Atlantic ocean
often between us, we have long navigated and maintained a synergy of shared
dimensions. As co-creators, we are involved in connecting environmental
politics with goddess spirituality both in our own writing and through
workshops around the world (including Glastonbury and Findhorn). As
listener-conveners, Leona and Penn create an expansive and practical field of
possibilities for and with the group. For
more information see http://brideswell.com/content/?p=302 and http://www.myspace.com/pennkemp, http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.ListAll&bID=499890262.....
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Location:
525 Canterbury Road, Contact: 519 434-8555, penn@pennkemp.ca or leona@brideswell.com.
Investment in You: $100. Students, artists, seniors: $60. ....
As
spaces in the workshop are very limited, your place will be reserved as soon as
we receive your payment. Please send
your cheque to Pendas Productions, 525 Canterbury Road, London ON N6G2N5. No refunds, sorry. Please bring a lunch to share and we shall
have potluck! Herbal tea will be provided
throughout the day.....
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Wednesday, , 6-6:30 am, 2009. Show #3
(R). Gathering
Voice (book/ cd, Pendas Productions) by Gloria Alvernaz Mulcahy and Penn,
performed with Anne Anglin.....
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Wednesday, , Living the Dream:
Writing Careers Panel Discussion with Bonnie Burnard, Cathy Marie Buchanan,
R. Scott Bakker, Douglas Keddy, Penn
Kemp and Christine Walde. The Book
Store, University of Western Ontario. The
event is part of Career Week.
Contact: Carolyn Young,
Communications Manager, (519) 661-3520 ext. 88251, ccyoung@uwo.ca.....
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Wednesday,
October 7, 2009, 2:30-3:30 pm, 2009.
Office hours, Writer-in-residence, UC 171. Contact: Vivian Foglton (519-661-3403 or vlavers@uwo.ca)
for an appointment. ....
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Thursday, Room D
1060, Fanshawe College, 1001 Fanshawe College Blvd., London ON N5Y 5R6The life
you create is in your own hands. What possibilities are open to
you? How do you create luck for yourself? How do you recognize
opportunities as they arise? How can you generate the livelihood that’s
just right for you, the most fulfilling work you could choose? The courage to find and follow
your creative livelihood is in taking those first steps towards the yet to be
explored.” Free and open to the
public. Contact: , 519-619-6556 or Amanda Zavitz-Gocan, Social Sciences Coordinator,
519-452-4430, azavitz@fanshawec.ca.....
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Thursday, 5:306:15
Talk with Penn on Minutia. McIntosh Gallery, The
University of Western Ontario. Minutia by Calgary artist Robert Kelly is
a sculptural installation of books displayed on lecterns in a circular
format. Each book focuses on one word in the sentence fragment "the
first time I heard the sound of a page turning", as a Chinese immigrant to
Canada wrote. Each book becomes the vehicle for exploring the power of
language as well as our link to the world through words. Tied in with Visual Arts Art Now speakers’
series, this discussion with Penn will provide an alternative view of the work
and an entrance into it. Contact: Catherine
Elliot Shaw, Curator, 519-661-3181, 519-661-3059, www.mcintoshgallery.ca....
Wednesday,
October 14, 2009, 6—6:30 pm, 2009. Show #4. Like Light Off
Water (cd, LostSound.com). Daphne Marlatt reads passages from Steveston.
Music composed and performed by Robert Minden and Carla Hallett.
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Wednesday, October
14, 2009, 10:30-11:30 am. Penn reading
for “Contemporary Canadian Literature”, University College Room 30, U. of
Western Ontario, London. ....
Contact: Joe
Zezulka jzezulka@uwo.ca. ....
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Wednesday,
October 21, 2009, 6—6:30 am, 2009. Show #4 (R). Like Light Off
Water (cd, LostSound.com). Daphne Marlatt reads passages from Steveston.
Music composed and performed by Robert Minden and Carla Hallett.....
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Wednesday,
October 14, 2009, 1:00-3:30 pm, 2009.
Office hours, Writer-in-residence, UC 171. Contact: Vivian Foglton (519-661-3403 or vlavers@uwo.ca)
for an appointment. ....
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Thursday,
October 15, 2009, 12:30-3:30 pm, 2009.
Office hours, Writer-in-residence. ....
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Wednesday,
October 21, 2009, 6—6:30 am, 2009. Show #4 (R). Like Light Off
Water (cd, LostSound.com). Daphne Marlatt reads passages from Steveston.
Music composed and performed by Robert Minden and Carla Hallett.....
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Wednesday,
October 21, 2009, 2:30-3:30 pm, 2009.
Office hours, Writer-in-residence, UC 171. Contact: Vivian Foglton (519-661-3403 or vlavers@uwo.ca)
for an appointment. ....
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Thursday,
October 22, 2009, 12:30-3:30 pm, 2009.
Office hours, Writer-in-residence. ....
Wednesday,
October 28, 2009, 2:30-3:30 pm, 2009.
Office hours, Writer-in-residence, UC 171. Contact: Vivian Foglton (519-661-3403 or vlavers@uwo.ca)
for an appointment. ....
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Wednesday,
October 28, 2009, 6—6:30 pm, 2009. Show #5. What Springs to
Mind (book, Pendas Productions, http://mytown.ca/what springstomind).
Penn’s writing practices: “The Three Doors of Creative Writing: a floor plan”.....
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Thursday,
October 29, 2009, 12:30-3:30 pm, 2009.
Office hours, Writer-in-residence. ....
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Thursday,
Oct29, 8 pm, Conron Hall, University
College, U. of Western Ontario, London.
“Like Light Off Water”. Daphne Marlatt reads from her classic
poetry cycle Steveston with music by
Canadian composers Robert Minden and Carla Hallett. Introduced by Penn.....
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Wednesday,
November 4, 2009, 6—6:30 am, 2009. Show #5 (R). What Springs to
Mind (book, Pendas Productions, http://mytown.ca/what springstomind).
Penn’s writing practices: “The Three Doors of Creative Writing: a floor plan”.....
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Wednesday,
November 4, 2009, 2:30-3:30 pm, 2009.
Office hours, Writer-in-residence, UC 171. Contact: Vivian Foglton (519-661-3403 or vlavers@uwo.ca)
for an appointment. ....
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Thursday,
November 5, 2009, 12:30-3:30 pm, 2009.
Office hours, Writer-in-residence. ....
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Wednesday,
November 11, 2009, 2:30-3:30 pm, 2009.
Office hours, Writer-in-residence, UC 171. Contact: Vivian Foglton (519-661-3403 or vlavers@uwo.ca)
for an appointment. ....
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Wednesday,
November 11, 2009, 6—6:30 pm, 2009. Show #6 When The Heart
Parts: A Sound Opera (cd, Pendas Productions) by Penn, performed along with
Anne Anglin, John Blackwood and John Magyar.....
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Thursday,
November 12, 12 noon,
2009. London Reads Literary Lunch, the Lorraine Ivey
Shuttleworth Community Gallery, Museum London. Launch of 2009/10 London Reads, introducing the six
celebrity readers, including Penn, and the three shortlisted books. Contact: Carolyn Young, (519) 661-3520 ext. 88251, ccyoung@uwo.ca.
Thursday,
November 12, 2009, 2:30-3:30 pm, 2009.
Office hours, Writer-in-residence. ....
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Wednesday,
November 18, 2009, 6—6:30 am, 2009. Show #6 (R). When The Heart
Parts: A Sound Opera (cd, Pendas Productions) by Penn, performed along with
Anne Anglin, John Blackwood and John Magyar.....
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Wednesday,
November 18, 2009, 2:30-3:30 pm, 2009.
Office hours, Writer-in-residence, UC 171. Contact: Vivian Foglton (519-661-3403 or vlavers@uwo.ca)
for an appointment. ....
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Thursday,
November 19, 2009, 8 pm. Hot Sauced
Words. Penn and Catherine Owen. Black Swan Tavern, All GRRLLZ night! 154 Danforth Ave. (2nd floor) east of Broadview), Toronto. Contact:
James@hotsaucedwords.ca, http://www.hotsaucedwords.ca.
Wednesday,
November 25, 2009, 10:30 am -12:30 pm. “On performance poetry and performing
poetry”, Writing Program, Middlesex College Room 105, U. of Western Ontario, London
ON. Contact: Kathryn Mockler kmockle3@uwo.ca, 416-850-4602.....
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Wednesday,
November 25, 2009, 2:00-3:30 pm, 2009.
Office hours, Writer-in-residence, UC 171. Contact: Vivian Foglton (519-661-3403 or vlavers@uwo.ca)
for an appointment. ....
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Thursday,
November 26, 2009, 12:30-3:30 pm, 2009.
Office hours, Writer-in-residence. ....
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Wednesday, February 24, 2010, 1:30 -
2:20 p.m. Penn reading for Honours Canadian literature class.
University College Room 286. Contact: Pauline Wakeham ...
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Thursday,
February 25, 2010, 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. Penn reading, “Poetry and Poetics”,
Brescia University College. Erica: "I was very happy to hear
Western's recent announcement that you will be our Writer-in-Residence for
2009-2010. I had the good fortune to
hear you read this past February, at Landon Library, and I loved every minute
of it. Your performance has really
stayed with me." Contact: Erica Kelly ekelly28@uwo.ca.
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