Send My Love to Anyone | Issue 35

with Mosab Abu Toha, Stephen Collis, Chelene Knight, Emily Austin, and Dale Martin Smith

Mar 28, 2024

Hi friends,

In advance of Poetry Month, Issue 35 of Send My Love to Anyone has lots of poetry for you!

You’ll find “Mouth Still Open,” a heartbreaking poem by award-winning poet Mosab Abu Toha (author of Things You May Find Hidden In My Ear), “The Country of Poets” a moving new poem by Stephen Collis (author of The Middle), an excerpt from Emily Austin’s (author of Everyone in this Room Will Someday Be Dead) stunning poetry book Gay Girl Prayers (Brick Books).

KIRBY

presents an essay by Dale Martin Smith who writes beautifully about his forthcoming book The Size of Paradise.

Chelene Knight (author of Junie and Let It Go) makes the case for letter writing!

In Gatherings, I recommend writing by Saeed Teebi, Sophie Monks Kaufman, Matthew Salesses, Mary Gaitskill, Canisia Lubrin, Lynne Tillman, and more!

Finally I share an old poem and a new dialogue prompt from my sister site Where Do I Start?

Hope you enjoy!

Kathryn

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Mosab Abu Toha | Issue 35

March 17, 2024

Mouth Still Open Mosab Abu Toha is a Palestinian poet from Gaza. His début poetry book, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and won an American Book Award, Palestine Book Award, and Walcott Poetry Prize. His essays have been published in

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Stephen Collis | Issue 35

March 16, 2024

The Country of Poets

The country of poets is
being bombed again

I can see the clouds of word-dust
billowing into the televised air

cries come out of burnt nights
metered but tending towards

a fractured syntax
and the unexpected image

not a dove
but a singing mechanical bird

perched on a tank’s gun
its new rhythms

the staccato of RPGs
the phosphorous of idiot wind

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Chelene Knight | Issue 35

March 16, 2024

Why you should bring back the practice of sending hand-written letters by Chelene Knight In an era consumed by digital communication and the relentless pressure to multitask, it's easy to miss out on authentic moments of connection and reconnection.

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Emily Austin | Issue 35

March 16, 2024

Excerpt from Gay Girl Prayers

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The First Time

the nebulous issue of the 'about'

KIRBY

March 23, 2024

Kirby: I’ve invited Dale here to share a bit more about his writing practice over this decade-long work. Such good fortune.

Dale Martin Smith “Notes On Paradise”

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Gatherings

Gatherings | Issue 35

Kathryn Mockler

March 22, 2024

Gatherings is a recommendation list of what I’m reading, listening to, and watching. In Issue 35 Gatherings you'll find Saeed Teebi, Sophie Monks Kaufman, Octavia Butler, Matthew Salesses, Ampersand Review Bulletin Board, Mary Gaitskill, Canisia Lubrin, Lynne Tillman, and more!

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More Anecdotes

World

Kathryn Mockler

March 18, 2024

World, I’m worried about you. Everything is so sad. I had a dream I died and being dead was like being behind a glass wall where you could see and hear everything but no one could see or hear you like a fly in a jar. When you’re a ghost you are constantly spying, constantly eavesdropping, but you don’t have anyone to tell your secrets to—even if you wit…

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Where Do I Start? | Writing Prompts by Kathryn Mockler

Dialogue Prompt

"Dialogue...grows from the character and the conflict, and, in its turn, reveals the character and carries the action." —Lajos Egri from The Art of Dramatic Writing Where Do I Start? | Writing Prompts by Kathryn Mockler is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support this project, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber…

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From the Archive

Francine Cunningham | Issue 16

June 1, 2022

Asleep Till You’re Awake

I went to the walk-in clinic because I’d started falling asleep in weird places. The first time happened in a grocery store. I was holding two boxes of cereal and I got tired, so I sat down in the aisle. I’d never thought to just sit down in a grocery store, but when your eyes are burning and the blinks come slower and slower, it…

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Lisa Robertson | Issue 20

October 31, 2022

When I was 27 I got fired from my job as a night time office cleaner after being caught using the photocopy machine at 2 am to make the zine (Barscheit) I used to put out with friends before we published anywhere else or even considered that possible. I love trash publishing.

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Send My Love to Anyone | Issue 35

with Mosab Abu Toha, Stephen Collis, Chelene Knight, Emily Austin, and Dale Martin Smith

Mosab Abu Toha | Issue 35

Stephen Collis | Issue 35

Chelene Knight | Issue 35

Emily Austin | Issue 35

the nebulous issue of the 'about'

Gatherings | Issue 35

World

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Francine Cunningham | Issue 16

Lisa Robertson | Issue 20

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