Penelope Rosemont

Penelope Rosemont

Penelope Rosemont (born 1942 Chicago, Illinois), attended Lake Forest College. She has been a painter, photographer, collagist (having invented a number of surrealist collage methods including the "landscapade" and "insect music" [in which cut-out shapes are placed on the background of a musical score] .) [cite web|author=G. Jurek Polanski|title=SURREALIST EXPERIENCES: 1001 Dawns, 221 Midnights.: By Penelope Rosemont, Foreword by Rikki Ducornet (Book Review)|url=http://www.artscope.net/VAREVIEWS/SurrealistExper0800.shtml|accessdate=2007-06-21] and writer, and "graphic designer for ["Arsenal/Surrealist Subversions"] and other publications," [Cite book|first=Marie Jo|last=Buhle|title=Women and the American Left: A Guide to Sources|year=1983|publisher=G.K. Hall|pages=243] Her painting "The Night Time is the Right Time" "was selected by the Chicago Jazz Insitute for the 2000 Chicago Jazz Festival t-shirt". [cite book|first=Franklin|last=Rosemont|title=Revolution in the Service of the Marvelous|publisher=Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company|year=2003|id=ISBN 0-88286-350-9|pages=49]

Rosemont is the editor of "" (University of Texas, 1998) and "The Story of Mary Maclane & Other Writings" by Mary Maclane, and the author of "Surrealist Experiences: 1001 Dawns, 221 Midnights" (Black Swan Press, 2000), and a book of poetry, "Beware of the Ice". She wrote a forward to "Crime & Criminals: Address to the Prisoners in the Cook County Jail & Other Writings on Crime" by Clarence Darrow.

In 1983 she and her husband Franklin Rosemont became managers of Charles H. Kerr & Company, a publisher of radical books in Chicago; [cite book|first=Allen|last=Ruff|title="We Called Each Other Comrade": Charles H. Kerr and Company, Radical Publishers|publisher=University of IllinoisPress|id ISBN=0252065824|year=1997|pages=206] she also directs Black Swan Press/Surrealist Editions with him.

The Alternatives in Publication Task Force of the Social Responsibilities Round Table of the American Library Association awarded the Rosemonts and Carlos Cortez the 2001 Jackie Eubanks Memorial Award "recogniz [ing] outstanding achievement in promoting the acquisition and use of alternative materials in libraries." [cite web|title=Jackie Eubanks Memorial Award|url=http://libr.org/amtf/eubanks.html|accessdate=2007-06-21]

She later served as Co-President of the Movement for a Democratic Society (MDS). [cite web|title=MDS Denounces Actions of Pace University|url=http://karmalised.com/?p=1692#more-1692|accessdate=2007-06-21]

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