📬 Send My Love to Anyone with Janis Bridger & Lara Jean Okihiro and Annick MacAskill
Send My Love to Anyone | Issue 42
Hello Friends,
For Issue 42 of Send My Love to Anyone, I share an excerpt from Obasssan’s Boots by Janis Bridger & Lara Jean Okihiro and two poems from Annick MacAskill’s new poetry book Votive.
Kirby answers the question How are you? and I launch my Onion Man 2.0 podcast.
For Where Do I Start? I share a Last Person on Earth prompt in an attempt to prove that you can take any concept and make it your own.
Thanks to Erica McKeen and Susan Sanford Blades for Including Anecdotes in their gift guides for All Lit Up.
Also Susan Sanford Blades is running a lecture/workshop course called How to Be a Writer, and I’m going to be doing a guest spot on literary newsletters.
Hope you enjoy Issue 42!
Kathryn
There’s nothing left to do but pack. I can’t put it off any longer.
Haunted by the image of the Ishii family’s things being carried out of their home while they were driven away, we stuff everything into a few rooms in the house and put locks on the doors. The kitchen table and chairs and all the furniture, the lamps, our pots and pans, our gramophone and records, all Koichiro’s books, and our bed. We cram things into attic spaces and under porches. We put our dishes and valuables in cabinets built into the walls and then plaster them over to camouflage them. We pack things in sturdy trunks and bring them to the Japanese Language School or the Buddhist Church. Surely the church is safe.
Read Excerpt from Obasssan’s Boots by Janis Bridger & Lara Jean Okihiro
How are you? I’ve never liked the question.
🧅 —It’s because you work in the warehouse, Clinton says. Bud’s old school; he thinks only men should work here.
A friend of mine is a dear friend to Yousef in Gaza, and she has been trying to help him come to Canada so he can study at the University of Ottawa. Please consider donating if you are able.
