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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.
Penn Kemp’s Followers (49)
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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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Barbaric Cultural Practice
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2016
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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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Local Heroes
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Gathering Voice
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2004
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River Revery
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2022
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Poems in Response to Peril: An Anthology in Support of Ukraine
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2022
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2002
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From Dream Sequins
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2012
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Penn Kemp
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The Impossible Fortune (Thursday Murder Club, #5)
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Readers' Favorite Mystery & Thriller
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Opening Round
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2025 Goodreads Choice Awards.
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“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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