Mother Worldly
Muse News
for a Fulsome Fall 2009
Tune in... Sound On...
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EnChanting:
Transformation through Poetry, Sound & Song
Workshop, Saturday,
December 5, 10:00-5:00 pm,
see p. 4 below for details.
With Devotional Chant Artist Brenda McMorrow &
Penn Kemp
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October 24, 2009 was The UN Day for Climate Change ACTION! Poems were written
for http://350Poems.blogspot.com,
also featured on www.350.org.
“I participated by reading my poem “Celebrating Tree
in Souwesto” on Saturday, October 24, 2009, at the Graham Arboretum in
Springbank Park, London ON in an unveiling and dedication ceremony for the new
memorial wall within the arboretum. As I was reading about Sycamore as a
'memory tree' reminiscent of 'that other London's Plane tree', I looked up and
saw a young tree I thought was a Sycamore... it turned out to BE a Plane tree.
Circles within circles reach out to embrace the Earth. Here is my 3.5 line
poem for http://350Poems.blogspot.com,
#207:
Embrace the whole
green planet.
It is possible to be that large. The time
is come. It is not just possible.
It is necessary.”
The little poem is set to Brenda McMorrow's beautiful music on
www.chrwradio.com/talk/gatheringvoices. (Well, on any Gathering Voices show...)”
Photos by Gavin
Stairs: http://picasaweb.google.com/gavinstairs/350Springbank20091024?feat=email#
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An Absolutely
Awesome October for Articles, Etc...
Kane X. Faucher, “Prodical Penn”, Artscape
Magazine. October 2009.
http://www.artscapemagazine.ca/New%20Site/web-data/Components/Issues/200910.pdf
Heather
Travis. “Penning a
role in the community”, Western News, October 22, 2009
http://communications.uwo.ca/com/western_news/stories/penning_a_role_in_the_community__20091022445027/.
Cover page, http://uwo.ca/.
“Sound poetry:
Penn Kemp and the metamorphosed ear”,
by
Conrad DiDiodato, http://didiodatoc.blogspot.com/,
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Paula
Meng, “Minutia exhibit focuses on the little things”, The Gazette. October
20, 2009. http://www.uwogazette.ca/2009/10/20/minutia-exhibit-focuses-on-the-little-things/
Penn’s talk,
"Courage, My Love", on a career in the arts, with a sound poem as
inspiration: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=BD70C42528F0921E&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL
I think I love you but I have chosen darkness, Daniela Sneppova’s Video /Film installation, January 2010, McIntosh
Gallery, London ON. Photo of Penn in Vanity Vamp Attire At Ire, http://www.fuzzycore.org/mrtvolka/vamps/vamps.htm
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Upcoming
Events
Monday, October 26, 2009, 7:30 pm. Poetry launches by Andreas Gripp (Anathema), Penn Kemp, John B. Lee (Island on the Wind-Breathed Edge of the Sea) and
Lori A. May (Stains). London launch of Penn’s book/cd, Trance (Dance) Form. P.K. Page wrote of this
book, "Read it with three eyes. Though two will do." Now
you can hear it with three ears— though two will do! Mykonos, 572 Adelaide St. N., London ON. Contact: andreasgripp@hotmail.com.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Penn-Kemp/126450531030?created#/event.php?eid=148035377622&index=1
Wednesday,
October 28, 2009, 6-6:30 pm, 2009. Show #5. Sounding Minutia: Discussion circle with Penn Kemp and
participatory sounding of Robert Kelly’s Minutia at the McIntosh
Gallery, The University of Western Ontario. Radio Western, CHRW 94.9
FM. Live, chrwradio.com/listen.
Thursday, October
29, 4:00 to 5:00 pm, Canadianist Research Group seminar. Daphne Marlatt,
poetry, performance, and collaboration. UC 274 or UC 224a. Contact: Erica
Kelly, ekelly28@uwo.ca
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. Free and open to
the public. Interview with Daphne
Marlatt now archived on www.chrwradio.com/talk/gatheringvoices.
Contact: mjones@uwo.ca.
Wednesday, November
4, 6:30-7:00 am, 2009. Show #5 (R). Sounding Minutia: Discussion circle with Penn Kemp and
participatory sounding of Robert Kelly’s Minutia at the McIntosh
Gallery, The University of Western Ontario. Radio Western, CHRW 94.9
FM. To be archived on www.chrwradio.com/talk/gatheringvoices.
Thursday, November 5, 1:30-3:30 pm, 2009.
WRIT 2299, the Professional Writing Portfolio, in the Writing, Rhetoric and
Professional Communication Program in Arts.
Contact:
Kathryn Alexander
<kalexa7@uwo.ca>
Wednesday,
November 11, 2:30-3:30 pm. “Writing from the inside out, and exploring
form and structure”. Rm 2042, the
Faculty of Education, Althouse College, 1137 Western Rd., London. Contact: Kathy Hibbert (519) 661-2111, x. 88557, khibbert@uwo.ca
Wednesday,
November 11, 6-6:30 pm, 2009. Gathering Voices, Radio Western, CHRW 94.9
FM. Show #6. When The Heart Parts: a Sound Opera by Penn Kemp,
performed with Anne Anglin, John Blackwood, John Magyar. CD, Pendas
Productions.
Thursday,
November 12, 12 pm, The London Reads Literary Lunch, Lorraine Ivey Shuttleworth
Community Gallery, Museum London. We will launch the 2009/10 London
Reads, introduce the six celebrity readers including Penn, Gitta Kulczycki (VP,
Resources and Operations), Jonathan Vance (History) and the three shortlisted books.
Contact: Carolyn Young, Communications Manager, (519) 661-3520 ext. 88251, ccyoung@uwo.ca.
Wednesday, November
18, 6:30-7:00 am, 2009. Show #6 (R). When The Heart Parts: a
Sound Opera. CD, Pendas Productions. Radio Western, CHRW 94.9 FM. To be
archived on www.chrwradio.com/talk/gatheringvoices.
Wednesday,
November 18, 4:00-5:30 pm, 2009. Penn in discussion with Canadianist Reading Group at Western, UC 274. Contact: Nadine Fladd nfladd@uwo.ca, Kostantina Northrup, knorthru@uwo.ca
Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009, 8 pm PST. Videopoems, Altar
Ego and ecopoem From an Upstairs Window, shown for “SEE THE VOICE:
Visible Verse”, Pacific Cinematheque, Vancouver BC. http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=620873242#/group.php?gid=2423323723&ref=ts.
Contact: Heather Haley, hshaley@emspace.com.
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.
Wednesday,
November 25, 6-6:30 pm, 2009. Show #7. Interview with London ON novelist Joan Barfoot. Radio Western, CHRW 94.9 FM. Live,
www.chrwradio.com/listen.
Friday, November
27, 2009, 1-2:30 pm. Penn, Women’s Studies, "Feminist Theory and Practice
in the Arts and Humanities". Contact: Kimberly J Verwaayen kjverwaa@uwo.ca
Wednesday,
December
2, 2009, 6:30-7:00 am, 2009. Show #7 (R). Interview with London ON
novelist Joan Barfoot. Radio Western, CHRW 94.9 FM. To be archived on
www.chrwradio.com/talk/gatheringvoices.
Sunday, December
6, 2009, 10:00-5:00 pm, 2009. EnChanting: Transformation through
Poetry, Sound and Song: A workshop for those who think they can't sing or
write but always wanted to; for those who can sing/write and wanted more; for
those wanting to sound out, sing out, write out loud. Sounding and chanting
are freely joyous ways to release creativity and open the heart's song. Drop
the blocks! Write and raise your voice with us! Invoking Sarasvati, the
goddess of creativity, music and poetry, we will create and share chants, poems
and songs to, from and for our Mother World.
With Devotional Chant Artist Brenda McMorrow (www.brendamcmorrow.com) and Penn
$60 ($50 if you bring a friend). Bring a lunch to share potluck. Herbal tea on
the house.
To confirm your spot, contact: ameyamusic@gmail.com and/or penn@pennkemp.ca. See
www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=3992303404#/event.php?eid=159742124825&index=1
Judge
October, 2009. Math
Performance Festival adjudicators Susan Aglukark, Tracy Bone, J.C. Campbell,
Douglas Copeland, Bob Hallett, Jay Ingram and Penn Kemp: see http://www.edu.uwo.ca/mpc/overview.html.
(Math as an art form, O the beauty!)
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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. Filled.
Wednesday,
January 13 through Thursday, March 25. Open.
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 http://www.uwo.ca/english/WhatsNew/Kemp2009-10Intro.pdf.
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
alternate Wednesdays, from 6:30-7 am. The show is streamed live on www.chrwradio.com/listen, and
archived for each week on http://chrwradio.com/archive/#wednesday. Archives of
past interviews, writing exercises and Penn’s sound operas are 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.
"I had such a wonderful time
at our first meeting! Your schedule suggestion is working really
well..." Mary McDonald
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Please join
our Facebook groups:
Gathering Voices www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=3992303404
Save Prom-Art: Promote Canadian Arts and
Culture
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=27449691026
Profile pages: http://www.facebook.com/pennkemp
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Penn-Kemp/126450531030?created
and http://www.twitter.com/pennkemp
Pendas Books/CDs are available from
pendas@pennkemp.ca.
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Fall
Publications
“Embrace the whole green planet, #207, http://350Poems.blogspot.com
"Regarding
What is Given", "Night Mare, Night Air", "The Long and
Short of All" and "O Lyric, O Lyre, O Liar". The Maple Tree
Literary Supplement, mtls.ca. September 15, 2009
http://www.mtls.ca/issue4/writings-poetry-kemp.php.
“The Dream Performance”,
Leonard Cohen: You’re Our Man, anthology for Leonard Cohen‘s 75th
birthday. Jack Locke, editor, Foundation for Public Poetry/Fondation Poésie
Publique, P.O. BOX 23044, 5038 Sherbrooke Ouest, Montreal, QC. H4A 1S7. publicpoetry@gmail.com. www.publicpoetry.wordpress.com.
September 21, 2009.
"September
Light" and "An Ounce Of Essential", The Ambassador Poetry
Project.
Launch,
September 25, 2009. Grosse Pointe MI. Editor, Lori A. May, www.ambassadorpoetry.com.
"Disarming
le Revenant", Totentanze
# XXVII, September
2009. Danse Macabre.
éditeur, Adam
Henry Carrière, dansemacabreonline@gmail.com.
http://dansemacabre.art.officelive.com/lerevenant.aspx.
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