PNEWS
Pnews, May 2025
1. Scattershots, my lighter verse collection (Cyberwit, April 2025), is now available. For details, see under PUBLICATIONS; for samples, check the POETRY tab.
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2. Many thanks to Iris Art Studio in Poquoson for inviting me back for another solo reading! May 17, 2025, from 1-3. 501 Wythe Creek Rd #100, Poquoson, VA 23662.
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3. Thanks to all who joined me on Facebook at the PSV Poem Sharing site this April. In honor of National Poetry Month, we once again took on the task of drafting new poems daily. (All of mine are still in pretty rough shape, but there are a number I’m expecting to profitably revisit!)
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4. The annual awards ceremony for the PSV poetry contests is coming up on Sunday, June 1st, at the downtown Richmond Library, from 1-4 pm. I’ll be there!
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5. Virginia Voices is hosting a couple of podcasts devoted to persona poems. On June 18, I’ll be leading a generative workshop. On July 23, there’ll be an open mic. More details as soon as the flyer is ready!
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6. I had a poem in the April edition of Verse-Virtual. Here’s a link: https://www.verse-virtual.org/2025/April/kannemeyer-derek-2025-april.html
Pnews, March, 2025
1. My new chapbook of monologues and tales, FOUND VOICES, was published on February 8 by Clare Songbirds. It's available from all the usual retailers, but why not order directly from the publisher? Just $9.99! Here's the link to the author page: https://www.claresongbirdspub.com/featured-authors/derek-kannemeyer/
2. I've been writing up a storm, and have just begun circulating a new full-length poetry MS called The Language of Belief. A lighter verse collection called Scattershots has also just been taken by Cyberwit. Due out in April!
3. I was a featured reader on the Virginia Voices podcast on March 12. Thanks to the co-hosts, Steve Bucher and Cathy Hailey, and to Terry Cox-Joseph, who shared the hour with me. Here's a link to the hour-long event: https://us06web.zoom.us/rec/play/pqia2Vqu8y_s6w0HyKwxVcfCl8Kto6QMPtZNHyx9vKwNzQplYGtLFU4Wi0x-e_d2beT4DoZgxsc4Inms.kEG0jRQsbtJYaia6?accessLevel=meeting&canPlayFromShare=true&from=share_recording_detail&continueMode=true&componentName=rec-play&originRequestUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fus06web.zoom.us%2Frec%2Fshare%2FLTnipeELUR2Uz9_sLWRc9jltPhjcfMW4AxQu0nxZya2Tv9X_sR9vMjY47MKdH7kG.CtYpe7JK_lN_5c8b
4. A long video interview recorded in February or March of 2024 has just surfaced. I'll add a link at thePraise & Press tab. (Drop down at PUBLICATIONS.)
Pnews, December 2024
1. I have two poems in the December Verse-Virtual. https://www.verse-virtual.org/2024/December/kannemeyer-derek-2024-december.html
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2. I have two pieces in a new anthology: 42 Stories Anthology Presents: Book of 42² (edited by B.A. Mullin). It features 1,764 micro stories of exactly 42 words, circulated through 42 genres. Each has a 42 character title (including spaces), and each author bio is also 42 words long. Too quirky to resist, right? Look for it on Amazon!

A NOTE: PNEWS predating the current year or so, originating from after the creation of this website in the fall of 2021, is eventually moved to PNEWS CREVÉS. (Check it out at the PNEWS dropdown menu up top!) But for visual interest, and nostalgia's sake, plus a certain pinch of je ne sais pourquoi pas packrattitude, permit me to preserve a few past media pieces on the present page, as palimpsest.
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UNSAY THEIR NAMES (2021)
Unsay Their Names is a record, in photographs accompanied by commentary, of the 2020-21 statue removals in Richmond, VA, and of a city's transformation in the context of the BLM protests. It is also an exploration, in commentary accompanied by photographs, of what brought us, locally and historically, to this summer of reckoning. And it becomes a voyage of personal discovery, as I compare the impact of Confederate and Lost Cause history on race relations in Virginia with my own struggles (as a mixed race immigrant) for racial peace and justice.
· ISBN-10 : 1006490183
· ISBN-13 : 978-1006490187
For sample photographs, visit the PHOTOGRAPHY pages.
Available now on Amazon. For more, see the DISTRIBUTION folder below.
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