Send My Love to Anyone | Issue 36
with Kate Sutherland, Saeed Teebi, Christine Estima, Julie Paul, and Cassidy McFadzean
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.
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
Saeed Teebi | Issue 36
Excerpt from “Enjoy Your Life, Capo” from Her First Palestinian and Other Stories What you have to do is silence the world. You have to tell the world to quit wailing, to calm itself, to let you think. Just as important: you have to pick one world, and listen only to that world’s wailing, that world’s screams. Nothing else. Otherwise, you will be like al…
Christine Estima on Rule Breaking
When it comes to getting a literary agent, if you play by the rules, you’ll never get anywhere There are very few gatekeepers left in most artistic disciplines. Gone are the days when you needed your fledgling band to tour dinky dives across the country before getting a record deal. Now you can record an entire album from home, upload in seconds to Spoti…
Julie Paul | Issue 36
The Source of the Singing © 2024 “The Source of the Singing” by Julie Paul from Whiny Baby published with permission of McGill-Queen’s University Press. Julie Paul’s second book of poetry, Whiny Baby (2024), follows the 2017 release of the poetry collection
Cassidy McFadzean | Issue 36
Crying Dress
I said you could trace thought processes
like a series of intersecting bridges
imagining each fragment opening up the text
Support Send My Love to Anyone
Support Send My Love to Anyone by signing up for a monthly or yearly subscription, liking this post, or sharing it!
Big heartfelt thanks to all of the subscribers and contributors who make this project possible!
Connect
Bluesky | Instagram | Archive | Contributors | Subscribe | About SMLTA