with Kathy Friedman, Caitlin Galway, Jessica Joy Hiemstra, Kirby, Saad Omar Khan, Carrianne Leung, Sina Queyras, and K.R. Wilson.
Send My Love to Anyone | Issue 47
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Issue 47 of Send My Love to Anyone is jam packed!
asks for a different story in “The ripple in your flag.”
Check out the latest I’ve been meaning to ask you interviews with Jessica Joy Hiemstra, Saad Omar Khan, Caitlin Galway, Carrianne Leung, and K.R. Wilson.
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In “You Can’t Ever Get Close” Kathy Friedman writes beautifully on literary tourism, queer identity, love, and art monsters
Jessica Joy Hiemstra treats us to an excerpt from her latest poetry collection Blood Root (Goose Lane Editions) alongside devastatingly gorgeous illustrations and an animation.
shares a playful but biting new poem, “MagAi, or Ai,Ai,Ai,Ai”.
You can read four new chapters from my flash memoir, One of These Days We’ll Both Be Fine.
And I round up my news along with what I’m reading, listening to, and watching in Issue 47’s Gatherings.
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Happy Pride!
Kathryn
The First Time
"The ripple in your flag."
Maybe because it was a flag. Maybe because they were placed pretty much everywhere first to designate gay businesses, then every business wanting gay monies. It was supposed to express support for diversity, the colours of the rainbow (now, even more inclusive, the OG skipped a few hues), at best a designated safe spot: "
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You Can't Ever Get Close
You Can't Every Get Close by Kathy Friedman
On my last afternoon in Prague, I set out for Kafka’s grave. But having misread the guidebook, I ended up stumbling around a muddy cemetery for over an hour before I found someone to ask for directions. The security guard explained that Kafka was buried elsewhere, in the Jewish cemetery. Obviously. I raced up the road, trying to get there before it closed for the day.
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