Nobuo Kubota & Penn Kemp in Performance

Nobuo KubotaNobuo Kubota, winner of a 2009 Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts, is a multi-media artist whose work includes sculpture, installations, video, music, and sound poetry. In the early 1980s, he was introduced to sound poetry by the legendary Four Horsemen. He is the author of Deep Text and Phonic Slices both published by Coach House Books. He has also won an Allied Arts award from The Royal Architectural Institute and has received the Victor Martyn Lynch Award for Visual Art.

Penn Kemp
Photo courtesy of Charles EarlPenn Kemp was appointed London, Ontario's first ever poet laureate on September 24, 2010. She has published twenty-five books of poetry and drama, had six plays and ten CDs produced as well as a DVD, Canada's first poetry CD-ROM and several award-winning videopoems. She performs in festivals around the world. Her Muse News is renewed monthly on Penn Letters and on Facebook. Penn can also be heard on MySpace and mytown.ca. Penn was the Canada Council Writer-in-Residence at the University of Western Ontario for 2009-10. She hosts Gathering Voices on CHRW 94.9 FM, archive on Gathering Voices. Penn will launch Luminous Entrance: a sound opera for climate change action in The A B Series on October 1st. Videos of Penn can be seen at House of Anansi Press and Poetry Visualized.

See this video of Penn Kemp interviewed by James Reaney from the London Free Press on the occassion of Kemp's appointment to the position of poet laureate.