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Penn’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Penn’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Penn Kemp
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Books I read and recommend 2025
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2025 saw two new collections of poetry out… thanks to above /ground press and silver bow publishing! And many publications/ readings: details on www.pennkemp.weebly.com. A special shoutout to www.publicreverie.com for their support! I was surprised to be awarded the League of Poets’ inaugural Lifetime Achievement Aw Read more of this blog post »
https://pennkemp.wordpress.com/2025/1...?
2025 saw two new collections of poetry out… thanks to above /ground press and silver bow publishing! And many publications/ readings: details on www.pennkemp.weebly.com. A special shoutout to www.publicreverie.com for their support! I was surprised to be awarded the League of Poets’ inaugural Lifetime Achievement Aw Read more of this blog post »
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Jack Layton: Art in Action
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2013
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Fox Haunts
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2018
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Barbaric Cultural Practice
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2016
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Local Heroes
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Gathering Voice
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2004
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River Revery
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Poems in Response to Peril: An Anthology in Support of Ukraine
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2022
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Sarasvati Scapes
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2002
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From Dream Sequins
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2012
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Penn’s Recent Updates
"Ben Lerner’s intricate novella contains traces of John Berger’s short story “Woven, Sir” - later republished as “Madrid” alongside similar pieces. Although their perspectives diverge, like Berger, Lerner’s interested in the spectral, the interplay be"
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"There isn’t another writer quite like Lerner, who works on another intellectual level from most of the rest of us. There’s so much happening in this tiny little book, which feels disjointed as you read it, and yet somehow flows together in the end. I"
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"Katya Balen is a phenomenal writer and over the last few years has captivated younger readers( and adults) with her magical, sometimes ethereal, moving and sensitive tales of young lives going through periods of challenge and transition.
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| Thanks to The Seaboard Review of Books and Antoinette Voûte Roeder for this sumptuous review https://www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/or... now up... ...more | |
“Earth's crammed with heaven,
And every common bush afire with God,
But only he who sees takes off his shoes;
The rest sit round and pluck blackberries.”
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And every common bush afire with God,
But only he who sees takes off his shoes;
The rest sit round and pluck blackberries.”
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“If you are a real writer, then just surrender to the writer's life, all of it, even the bad stuff. When you do that, the beauty appears: the peace, the meaning, the joy, the fulfillment, the sense that you are doing what you were born to do and what could be better, in the end, than that?”
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“Writing, for me, makes the world shiver and flame with meaning.”
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“He found he was a man who repented almost everything, regrets crowding in around him like moths to a light. This was actually the main difference between twenty-one and fifty-one, he decided, the sheer volume of regret.”
― Station Eleven
― Station Eleven
“The human face has limited space. If you fill it with laughter there will be no room for crying.”
― A Fine Balance
― A Fine Balance
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