Gatherings | Issue 7
Books, chapbooks, writing prompts, poetry, essays, films and more!
Hello friends,
Welcome to Send My Love to Anyone’s July Recommendations.
In this issue, you’ll find book and chapbook recommendations, links to essays, poems (lots of poems this month!), videos, a writing prompt, and more!
My husband David Poolman and his Never Met a Stranger collaborator Jeremy Drummond have released their book and CD, As Has It, which is now available for order.
If you have something cool you’d like to share, post it here, and I may include it in the next month’s recommendations.
Hope you enjoy.
Kathryn
Never Met a Stranger’s As Has It: Book & CD Release!
My husband David Poolman and his Never Met a Stranger collaborator Jeremy Drummond have released their book and CD, As Has It, a collection of interviews, photographs, and field recordings captured throughout central Appalachia between May 2015 and July 2019. These documents explore the connections between vernacular culture, landscape, and contemporary life in central Appalachia.
NMAS 008: AS HAS IT, IS NOW AVAILABLE FOR ORDER!
CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE YOUR COPY
As Has It features interviews with Kelley Breiding, Dom Flemons, John Haywood, Billy C. Hurt Jr., Erynn Marshall & Carl Jones, Frank Newsome, Kinney Rorrer, Ada Smith, Emily Spencer, Martha Spencer, Betty Vornbrock and Earl White; and is accompanied by two CD’s of field recordings by Josh Bearman, Bonnie Bond, Eddie Bond, Debbie Bramer, Kelley Breiding, Karen Carr, Wayne Dye, Dom Flemons, Trish Fore, Russell Griswald, John Haywood, Wayne Henderson, Donald Hill, Kevin Howard, Billy C. Hurt Jr., Chris Johnson, Minnie Lou Johnson, Carl Jones, Erynn Marshall, Rich Miller, Tom Mylet, Frank Newsome, Ethan Pardue, Hazel Pasley, Lucas Pasley, John Perry, Kinney Rorrer, Kyle Dean Smith, Emily Spencer, Kilby Spencer, Martha Spencer, Thornton Spencer, Robert Stowe, Kirk Sutphin, Janet Turner, Betty Vornbrock, Peco Watson, Earl White, and Chris Wolf.
Never Met A Stranger serves as a collaborative platform for the production of art and experimental media, a publisher of vernacular arts and culture, and an ongoing archive of field recordings, interviews, and documentary resources that collectively explore relationships between perception and representation, industry and environment, and landscape and culture that exist beyond the confines of mainstream media.
Never Met a Stranger is a collaboration between artists Jeremy Drummond and David Poolman.
29th Croatian One-Minute Film Festival
My short film “How’s It Going” is playing in the 29th Croatian One-Minute Film Festival.
The program is online until July 15, 2021. My film is at the 31:21 minute mark.
It’s a great line up of films! Hope you enjoy!
Grandma Cooper’s Corpse by Michael V. Smith
I received a post on my SMLTA Q&A about long poem writers. And it so happens I just wrote a blurb for Micheal V. Smith’s new chapbook Grandma Cooper’s Corpse from Broke Press, which is a terrific long poem!
So here’s one I obviously recommend!
“In this stunning, genre-bending poetic monologue, Smith uses his expert narrative skills to recount the hilarious yet heartbreaking family tale of trying to locate his estranged grandmother’s corpse. Smith moves easily between tragedy and comedy creating a dynamic and complex portrait of a family who—despite living in close proximity in their small Ontario town—are torn apart by rivalry, resentment, poverty, and mental illness.”
Poetry book covers as Lady Gaga by David Ly
I absolutely adore this!
Rita Wong: How to face a crisis with courage—Fairy Creek’s lessons
From The Georgia Straight:
“Despite nice-sounding announcements, the clearcutting of Canada’s last old growth forests continues unabated as we face a killer heat wave this June and early July.
How do I know this? Recently, I was on the unceded Pacheedaht territories also known as Fairy Creek, and made a two-hour hike up to Eden, where I heard chainsaws, and dynamite blasts for road building so that some of the last giants on Turtle Island can be logged by Teal-Jones for short-term profit. As the Rainforest Flying Squad reminds us, these thousand-year-old trees are worth more standing. They draw people to come visit the area, but beyond that economic incentive, they have intrinsic value. You cannot put a price on your mother, and you should not put a price on these ancestral trees that are being slaughtered by colonial forces.”
In response to “What’s new?” by Julie Cameron Gray
Read this excellent poem by Julie Cameron Gray in the League of Canadian Poet’s Poetry Pause series.
“The Man: A Compilation” by Rebecca Hazelton
Here’s another excellent poem by Rebecca Hazelton from The Kenyon Review.
“A Song Near the End of the World” by Sharon Olds
New poem by Sharon Olds in the New Yorker.
Baseline Press: New Chapbooks
Check out the 2021 poetry chapbooks from Baseline Press:
Poets include Alycia Pirmohamed & Pratyusha, Jenny Berkel, Dave Hickey, Jason Dickson, David Janzen, Arleen Paré, and Cornelia Hoogland.
Never Aired: Profile on James Baldwin ABC’s 20/20
How to Give Feedback, BBC
There are some great tips here for how to give feedback.
“Cavity” by Danielle Geller
This is a moving and beautiful essay by my colleague at UVic Danielle Geller:
“The saltwater aquarium in my new dentist’s office is its best feature. My favorite fish is a red fish with big eyes and a black stripe along its back. He has a generally grumpy demeanor, and I cannot help but feel a friendship form between us. I take photos of him and sometimes post them to Instagram. (“This red fish is my favorite fish, he is a total weirdo.”) He is popular among my friends.”
Read more here.
Bramah and the Beggar Boy Virtual Book Launch by Renée Sarojini Saklikar
Register here.
Reading: Draft 16
Draft 16.6 Sunday, July 18th, 3 p.m. on zoom.
Please register through Eventbrite. You can find more details on the Draft website.
This very special event includes spoken word, visual art, improvised music, all together in a literary sphere. Featured writers are
Andrea Thompson, poet, novelist, editor and educator
Jennifer Hosein , writer, visual artist, and educator
Gloria Blizzard, poet and essayist with saxophonist Michael Arthurs
We will also be joined by four additional very talented writers: Robin Pacific, H. Nigel Thomas, Carol B. Duncan and Eleni Gouliaras.
The Giller Book Club: Watching You Without Me
A conversation with Lynn Coady and Ian Williams for the Giller Book Club. Lynn is the author of WATCHING YOU WITHOUT ME which was longlisted for the 2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize and Ian won the 2019 Scotiabank Giller Prize for his novel REPRODUCTION.
Kathy Friedman and InkWell Workshops offer struggling writers a chance to turn the page
“InkWell Workshops offers a safe space for writers who have experienced mental health and addiction issues to hone their craft—and to connect with Toronto’s literary community.” from the Toronto Star
July Writing Prompt
July’s writing prompt brought to you by the climate crisis:
Drafts in the Notes App
This is a fun thread!
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