Performance poet, activist and playwright Penn Kemp is London, Ontario’s inaugural Poet Laureate. Her most recent works are Local Heroes (Poetry, Spring 2018), The Dream Life of Teresa Harris (Drama, 2017) and Barbaric Cultural Practice (Poetry, 2016). She is prolific in many genres, from poetry to essays, drama and multimedia as well as performance and spoken word. Many of her CDs are whet Penn terms “Sound Operas”: dramatic poetic narratives that weave sound, imagery and music in the counterpoint of many voices.

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Todd Boss is a poet, public artist, librettist, and film producer in Minneapolis. His poetry collections are SOMEDAY THE PLAN OF A TOWN (2022), TOUGH LUCK (2017), PITCH (2012) and YELLOWROCKET (2008), all from W. W. Norton & Co. His poems have appeared in THE NEW YORKER, POETRY, NPR, THE LONDON TIMES, and many other publications. His choral collaborations with composer Jake Runestad have premiered at Kennedy Center and elsewhere. His large-scale public artworks include a 2022 augmented-reality "Dakota Spirit Walk" in downtown Saint Paul, a 2012 installation in the Mississippi River in downtown Minneapolis to mark the 5th anniversary of the 35W Bridge collapse, and a 2014 block-wide projection of poetry films onto Saint Paul’s historic Union Depot. He is the founding Executive and Artistic Director of Motionpoems, an initiative that partners with major publishers and film companies to turn great contemporary poems into short films, with 150 in its archive. More at toddbossoriginals.com and motionpoems.org.

John Most, poet, was born in Covington, Virginia on April 11, 1977.

Most attended the University of Virginia before earning a PhD from the European Graduate School in Poetics. 

John has taught courses at Virginia Commonwealth University and the European Graduate School.

John is the author of Atelier, Field, Timetable, and Persephone. His most recent book of poems is What Thoughts.

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