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Send My Love to Anyone | Issue 15

with Laurie D. Graham & Catherine Graham

Kathryn Mockler
May 1
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Hello friends,

This month for Issue 15 of Send My Love to Anyone, I publish an excerpt from Laurie D. Graham’s latest poetry collection Fast Commute (McClelland & Stewart) and I interview Catherine Graham about her latest novel The Most Cunning Heart (Palimpsest Press).

Check out April’s recommendations below!

On May 4th, I’m moderating the FOLD panel The Truth Behind Climate Fiction, a virtual conversation with Sydney Hegele, Premee Mohamed, and Mary-Lou Zeitoun about their recent novels.

Register for the FOLD here.

Hope you enjoy!

Kathryn


FOLD: The Truth Behind Climate Fiction - May 4, 2022 at 2:00pm EST

The Truth Behind Climate Fiction, a virtual conversation with Sydney Hegele, Premee Mohamed, and Mary-Lou Zeitoun about their recent novels.

Register here.

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Join us Wed. May 4, from 2-3:15pm ET, for THE TRUTH BEHIND CLIMATE FICTION--a conversation with three acclaimed authors who write abt the climate in their work. Feat. @sydneyhegele @premeesaurus & @marylouzeitoun in conv. w/ @themockler--register today!
thefoldcanada.org/register
Session graphic advertising the THE TRUTH BEHIND CLIMATE FICTION discussion panel at the upcoming Festival of Literary Diversity. Graphic shows an image of Earth, with headshots of the panel discussion participants--three women and one non-binary person--overlaid atop it. 

Text: THE TRUTH BEHIND CLIMATE FICTION. Sydney Hegele,, Premee Mohamed & Mary-Lou Zeitoun with Kathryn Mockler. Wednesday, May 4, 2-3:15pm ET. Get a festival pass at thefoldcanada.org.

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April 12th 2022

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My sister’s memoir Fractured is coming out this fall:

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“Somehow it was easier to be inside the injury. Not to see what was visible on the outside. I knew I was still here.”

A collision with a moose on a dark highway left Susan Mockler with an incomplete spinal injury, suddenly compromising her ability to walk and to care for herself. She spent months in a rehabilitation facility learning how to adjust to her new reality, and though her body partially recovered, every aspect of her life changed.

Fractured is a compelling illumination of the challenges of acquired disability and the ways in which people with disabilities are sidelined and infantilised. Mockler, a psychotherapist, speaks with frank honesty about her family and friends’ reactions to her injury, and the hard-won lessons that she and those around her learned from her experience.


Recommendations from Send My Love to Anyone!


Remembering Steven Heighton

I was very sad to learn of the passing of Steven Heighton. He was such a kind and warm persona and I have fond memories of hanging out with him at Banff many years ago.

For a writer so adept at crossing genres, Heighton was also highly attuned to the more difficult aspects of the writing life, which perhaps contributed to the empathy and compassion with which he treated his peers. —Steven W. Beattie

Two moving pieces honoring Steven Heighton:

Steven Heighton remembered by Dan Wells in Quill & Quire

Steven W. Beattie honors Steven Heighton in the Toronto Star


Connecting to Planet Earth Through Poetry by Fiona Tinwei Lam in the Tyee

Verses of love and loss for our endangered flora, fauna and ecosystems, compiled by Vancouver’s poet laureate.

Celebrating Earth Day feels fraught. Increasingly alarming reports by the United Nations about the estimated one million species threatened with extinction and the need for immediate and profound emissions reductions to limit global warming fill us with dread.

The climate emergency is upon us, yet so much more needs to be done. It can feel overwhelming.

But we still must celebrate — and fight — for what we still have. If we all raise our voices, perhaps governments, institutions and corporations will finally hear us.


Danielle Geller’s memoir Dog Flowers:

I just finished Danielle Geller’s Dog Flowers. I highly recommend this beautiful memoir.

A daughter returns home to the Navajo reservation to retrace her mother’s life in a memoir that is both a narrative and an archive of one family’s troubled history.

You can read an excerpt at Penguin Random House.

Dog Flowers

Naben Ruthnum’s new horror novella is out:

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I have now dispatched all pre-orders of @NabenRuthnum's HELPMEET. Happy to ship more if you'd like to order this novella of bodily horrors and love.
undertowpublications.com/shop/helpmeet
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April 12th 2022

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Deadline September 21, 2022 for the Banff Centre’s Winter Writers Residency

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Apply today for @banffcentre's WINTER WRITERS RESIDENCY (Jan 2023) and spend 2 weeks with mentorship from Lisa Robertson, Nasser Hussain and Holly Melgard!:
banffcentre.ca/programs/winte… @nassershussainWinter Writers Retreat 2023A self-directed program that offers time and space for writers to retreat, reconnect, and re-energize their practice.banffcentre.ca

April 13th 2022

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Write with Yvonne Blomer:

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come to Shawnigan Lake on Vancouver Island this summer, and write poems with me in the community of other artists #missa
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April 21st 2022

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Some excellent advice:

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To avoid straining your eyes when you're continuously working, follow the 20-20-20 rule. After 20 minutes of work, look at something 20 feet away, then spend 20 years in the forest.

March 26th 2022

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9 Ableist Tropes In Fiction I Could Do Without by Margaret Kingsbury, Book Riot

After talking with publishers, reviewers, writers, and readers about disability, I decided that it wasn’t enough to say there needed to be more disability representation in publishing. People in the bookish community need concrete examples of problematic portrayals to understand how and why these portrayals are harmful to the disabled community. At the same time, disability is not a monolith. Our experiences and personalities vary, of course! This is what makes it challenging to write a list of disability stereotypes, because there should be — must be — nuance in the way disabled characters are written. This list isn’t meant as a set of rules so much as a list of things to think about and problems disabled readers frequently find in fiction. I used my own knowledge as a disabled reader combined with discussions in some of the disabled groups I’m in to come up with these nine ableist tropes most frequently seen in books for all ages. As a warning, while I try to be vague about the ableism in books, I do list some spoilers.

Read more.


Kim Fahner on Bronwen Wallace:

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I’m really excited to have my review of Collected Poems of Bronwen Wallace in the current issue of @arcpoetry. I first “met” her work as a grad student at Carleton U in the early 1990s. Her poems helped me to grow as a poet & feminist. Life changing poetry, for me. @carolynsmart
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March 29th 2022

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Samantha Jones has a new chapbook:

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Excited to announce that my strange little #OCD chapbook project called “Site Orientation” will be coming to you via @theblastedtree this spring. If you like #poetry or #WHMIS (or both!) this is just the thing for you. #MentalHealth #Neurodiversity #IndiePress #ExperimentalPoetry
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April 3rd 2022

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A reading by Caroline Bergvall:


Kim Fahner’s Covid Diary, from The Republic of Poetry:

I promised to write something ‘other,’ afterwards. Sometimes, ‘afterwards’ is overwhelming, and can’t be shared right away. It takes time to process major losses in a life, a grief that digs deep to root into your own body. Sometimes, ‘afterwards’ is about pretending or imagining that you are a turtle, and pulling into your shell and building strong walls so that you know you are strong enough on your own, without anyone else to lean on.

Read more


A first look at Victoria Mbabazi’s new KFB chapbook:

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First look. @vicmbabazi #VMBx2 #FLIP #KFB
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April 10th 2022

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A great webinar from Jael Richardson on how to moderate:


Stop Telling Women They Have Imposter Syndrome by Ruchika Tulshyan and Jodi-Ann Burey

For many women, feeling like an outsider isn’t an illusion — it’s the result of systemic bias and exclusion.

Read more.


Issue #15 of Send My Love to Anyone

Interview with Catherine Graham

Excerpt from Fast Commute by Laurie D. Graham

April 2022 Recommendations

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