Timothy Gager News: July 2021

Wednesday, July 21, 2021

15 minute reading with WANA live from June 30, 2021

I was posting a lot of video readings so I held back on posting this one (bottom of page), but it's a good one for short attention spans, clocking in at 16:26.

WANA (Writers Association of Northern Appalach) hosts a reading interview often and the hosts Damian Dressick, and Christina Fisanick are energetic and professional.

HERE IS the show:

Monday, July 19, 2021

I'm in Surviving Suicide Anthology, (it may save a life) but better yet, I've included the toll free Suicide Prevention Hotline Number

SOS, Surviving Suicide: a collection of poems which may save a life, was released by Dean Stalham (Nirala publication,New Delhi ) It is a collection which includes my poem Deathiversary, A Year and a Day Later, and all of the people you can see beneath the book cover. Yuyu Sharma, my friend from Nepal was kind enough to ask me to contribute.

This is all pretty great, and maybe it will save a life---as many of us have been touched by a suicide or have considered it ourselves.

Let me tell you though, that's a powerful ass poem if it'll cure depression and get someone off the ledge. I'd like to recommend counseling and a psychiatrist for mental health needs, and also to know this number, which is the Suicide Prevention Hotline :

800-273-8255

Contents

Foreword Carlotta Allum / 9

RAVI SHANKAR The Great Sun / 17

dPART Rope / 20 BANU ERCON That Day /

21 DANIELLE BUTTERS I nearly said goodbye / 23 CHRISTOPHER SOUTHGATE Sestina / 25

ROY BARKER I have a choice / 27

BENJAMIN ZEPHANIAH You can hold your head high / 28

The Angry Black Poet / 29

TIM TOMLINSON Multiple Attempts on Dark Hollow Road, Friday Nights in Winter / 31

Last Words / 32

Godless / 33

KAREN LITTLE Along the river / 34

SADIE MASKERY No one can tell you / 35

ANON Suicide Roulette / 37

WENDY YOUNG Don’t judge/38

MIKE GRAVES Stairway / 42

SOPHIE CAMERON I love you always / 43

ALBY STOCKLEY Grenade / 45

KAREN CORINNE HERCEG Down from the Ledge / 48

EVE MCDOUGALL TIK, TOK / 49

MEGAN GARRETT-JONES Aladdin Trousers / 51

MAT LLOYD Blokes 2020 / 54

CAROL LYNN STEVENSON GRELLAS A Daughter’s Project / Getting over a Suicide / 58 To the Year of Unknowing / 59

CARRIE MAGNESS RADNA People with Sad Eyes / 61 Family Sorrows / 63

MARTIN HEAD What Could I Have Done? / 66

JASON WISTERIA ‘A catch from above’ / 68

JEREMY REED Dead Number, for Matthew Lewis / 71 Do Ya / 72

ANNE CASEY She understood/ 73

AGNES MARTON Time to Destination: Unknown / 76

SUZANNE FRENCH There’s always another day / 77

PAT LEACOCK AKA PDLpoet Strength in Numbness / 78

MADELEINE F. WHITE One for Sorrow… / 80

HENRY MADD Extraordinary Creatures / 82

PATRICK LYONS Mirrors of the Dead / 85

RORY PADDLE AKA RAWBYNATURE It’s Just the Face / 86

DAVID NO ONE Wounded / 88

SAM RAPP I Survived / 89

AGNES MEADOWS Yellow / 91

GIL DE RAY Erasing Awareness / 92

SIMON MILES On Chelsea Bridge / 97

DAVID ERDOS Let’s play these words as Ace / 98

DAVE MANKIND Let’s All Hang Together / 101

GILL FEWINS The Day After I Kill Myself / 103

KIRSTY ALISON Install the Update / 105

JUDITH MOK The Whetter of the Knife/ 108

DAVID AXELROD Nothing Monumental/ 109

BILL WOLAK Lost in Darkness/ 110

JAMES RAGAN To a Mother and Child at the LA Mis- sion Shelter / 112

CATHERINE ALICE WOODS Rocket Ships and Fireworks / 113

FERN ANGEL BEATTIE Mining Rubies / 114 A

MAR AAKASH Messiah Puppy / 115

TIM KAHL The Fermata / 117

GERARD BEIRNE Ways of Survival / 118

TIMOTHY GAGER Deathiversary: Years and A Day Late/119

SANDRA YANNONE Grief / 120

YOGESH PATEL Hofstadter’s Strange Loop / 122

ANNA HALBERSTADT A Warm Weekend In May / 123

MEGHA SOOD The Note / 125

PATRICIA CARRAGON Just Say I Love Him / 127

DARIUSZ TOMASZ LEBIODA The Last Letter Of Romek Jaskier / 128

AMANDA GOVAN Life Drawing / 129

JOHN PRASTITIS Light Pours Out / 131

LUKE SULLIVAN I Stand on the Quay / 132

YUYUTSU SHARMA You see it coming, Lincoln Centre / 134

CARLOTTA ALLUM We Watched Her / 136

DEAN STALHAM Daddy Duties/ 138

The Poets Of SOS Surviving Suicide / 145

Acknowledgments / 153

Friday, July 2, 2021

Fiction from the Summer Issue of Wilderness House Literary Review

Happy to announce the Summer fiction I was honored to read for Wilderness House Literary Review. To read the ENTIRE ISSUE, click the link

WHLR 62st Issue (Volume 16, no 2)-July 2021

David P. Ervin - The Bus Driver
G. D. McFetridge - Joker and the Drunk
Gresham Cash - That Man We All Pass
Joe Grantham - Sunflowers
Judith Goode - Remembering
Linda McMullen - In the Red
Mattia Ravasi - In the Event of the Zombie Apocalypse
Michael Cooney - The Perfect Babysitter
Shannon O’Connor - Caffeine Headache
Tess Brewer - Private and Confidential
Zach Murphy - 437 Wilton Street (A Brick Story)

Three Flash Fictions published in Punk Noir Magazine

How do I fit into this? Here's their description. I fit most under "punk." looking at the world in its most askew. Thanks to Editors BF Jones and Stephen J. Golds

Punk Noir Magazine is purportedly an online arts and entertainment magazine that looks at the world at its most askew, casting a bloodshot eye over films, music, television and more. There are interviews, reviews, news, poetry, fiction, micro fiction, and flash fiction. And some other stuff too, I’m sure. Indeed, a veritable cornucopia of carryings on.

Both punk and noir are words that have been so overused and misused that they pretty much mean nothing now. They’re random adjectives that are regularly added in a scattershot way, so combining them allows a lot of scope for the site. No sense? Nonsense!

Anyway, I love their sensibility, and love that they picked three of my flash fictions. It's nice to get some new flash out in the world, the first of 2021, and first since October 2020.

Here's the story behind the stories. Iope you have fun reading these---they go from heavy to real, and then ridiculous (but is it really that much so?).

1) Disremembering

Is about how times go when you either forget or decide to not take needed medication

2) How You Met Your Husband

This story is actually about how a friend of mine met her husband. This though is fiction, but I won't tell anyone what's real or not.

3) Poke

Poke is a fun one about someone who missing the old Facebook "poke" and would like to bring it back as a dating app.