Penn Kemp

Poet, performer and playwright Penn Kemp has participated in cultural life for 52 years, writing, editing, and publishing poetry, prose and plays as well as editing anthologies. Chosen as the League of Canadian Poet’s Spoken Word Artist (2015) and Life Member, she has published 30 books of poetry, prose, drama, and multimedia, much of which is devoted to ecopoetry. She was London, Canada's inaugural Poet Laureate (2010-13) and Western University’s Writer-in-Residence (2009-10). Out now is POEMS IN RESPONSE TO PERIL: an anthology for Ukraine. Penn’s new collection, INCREMENTALLY, is up as e-book and album on https://www.hempressbooks.com/authors/penn-kemp.