Send My Love to Anyone | Issue 36

Hi Friends,

In Issue 36, you’ll find six collages from Kate Sutherland’s series, Exquisite Creatures, a nod and variation on the surrealist game of Exquisite Corpse.

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Saeed Teebi shares an excerpt from his acclaimed story collection Her First Palestinian (Anansi, 2022). “Enjoy Your Life, Capo” is set in Toronto during the early pandemic years and follows a Palestinian software engineer who develops a wireless breathing app in hopes that it will help his chronically ill teenage daughter. After years of work on the app, mounting debt, and little interest from the medical community, he’s forced to accept an offer that not only makes him complicit in the suffering of his own people, but also threatens his relationship with his daughter—a racial justice activist in the #BlackLivesMatter and #FreePalestine movements.

For Words Count, Christine Estima (author of the Syrian Ladies Benevolent Society) writes about how she broke all the rules in her search for a literary agent:

“I have had two literary agents in my career (currently still with the latter), both of whom I secured through unorthodox means. Taking the famed advice of Marilyn Monroe, “if I’d observed all the rules, I’d never have got anywhere,” I applied that ethos to getting an agent, refusing to go the traditional route.”

Also in Issue 36, “The Source of the Singing,” a poem from Julie Paul’s new book Whiny Baby (McGill-Queen’s University Press) and two poems from Cassidy McFadzean’s collection Crying Dress (House of Anansi Press).

In Gatherings, I recommend writing by Ibrahim Nasrallah, Annick MacAskill, Omar Sakr, Jade Wallace, Steven Beattie, Lisa Robertson, and Ross Gay; Kerry Clare’s new literary podcast, Bookspo; and my Capote vs. The Swans rabbit hole.

Hope you enjoy!

Kathryn

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