Poetry in Play
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Reviews and Readings of COLOUR FIELDING
Upcoming Reading
Sunday, November 22, 2-3:30 pm. "Celebrating Greg Curnoe". Poems from COLOUR FIELDING by Penn with musical improv. by Ann Denny on her father's homemade instruments from The Luddites. Speakers include Herman Gooden, Ma...
News and Events, Fall 2026
✨✨Forthcoming Readings and Workshops ✨✨
Wednesday, October 28, 7:45 pm EDT. Patricia Keeney and Penn Kemp read from their collaboration, VOCAL BRAIDING (Pendas Productions). LCP Senior Poets Caucus Open Mic.
Sunday, November 22, 2-3:30...
Celebrating TISH poets
Theresa Smalec & Public Reverie are celebrating TISH poets!
“Please send poems, prose, visual art, multimedia, essays, flash fiction, anecdotes, memories, and whatever else you may wish to share with these poets to [email protected]. S...
Poems to Celebrate Summer
Happy Solstice! These three pieces came out just in time to celebrate.
- June 20. “A great illumination”. A poem written in memory of the late Robert Kroetsch, originally published in Lives of Dead Poets (Ottawa: above/ground press.
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✨✨ Summer-2026- ✨✨/
Summer news: “”We are the bees of the invisible.We wildly collect the honey of the visible, to store it in the great golden hive of the visible.” Rilke
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Penn Kemp has participated in Canadian cultural life for six decades, writing poetry, fiction and plays. The League of Canadian Poets celebrated Penn with the Inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award. Her news is up on http://pennkemp.weebly.com.
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