Send My Love to Anyone | Issue 5

with June Pak and Concetta Principe

May 30, 2021

Send My Love to Anyone is a newsletter on all things writing (and sometimes art and film) by Kathryn Mockler & guests. Subscribe here.

Hello friends,

Welcome to the fifth issue of Send My Love to Anyone.

This month’s micro interview features poet and essayist Concetta Principe who shares her first memory of writing creatively and tells us about her new essay collection, Stars Need Counting (Gordon Hill Press, 2021).

Visual artist June Pak examines art and labour in her project Invisible Labour - 보이지 않는 노동.

I write about coping with rejection.

ICYMI here are the May Recommendations which includes a grab bag of calls, events, recommended reads, and links.

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Micro Interview: Concetta Principe

Trigger warning: This interview discusses suicide and suicide ideation.

Kathryn Mockler: What is your first memory of writing creatively?

Concetta Principe: I remember the first poem I wrote was short, almost a haiku, though I didn’t know it as such at the time. I was in Grade 6 and based on a ‘project’ I did on modern art, I discovered Gertrude Stein. My poem had been inspired by my reading of Gertrude Stein’s Tender Buttons. This was the second book I’d read by her. The first book I read by Stein was What are Masterpieces. And how I came to read it at all seems, in retrospect, a complete accident.

On Rejection: Kathryn Mockler

Dear Guidance Counsellor, Thank you for telling me I’m nothing

Nothing prepared me more for the life of a writer dealing with rejection and setbacks than being told by the Grade 8 guidance counsellor that I wasn’t “university material.”

Guest Artist: June Pak

This project Invisible Labour came about when I was invited to a group exhibition called Art_Bop* in Korea, Dec. 17, 2020 - Feb. 17, 2021. The exhibition is the first stage of a larger project that questions the value of art and labour, initiated by an artist collective by the same name based in Mullae Artist Village in Seoul.

Check out the Invisible Labour - 보이지 않는 노동 here.