They say that the best way to make God laugh is to tell them your plans. And as the world has seen repeatedly over the last eighteen months, even the most well thought out and well-intentioned plans can be upended in an instant. As was the case for the American poet, Don Agey. In 2004, Agey’s wife, Kerri, died in a car accident on her way to work. And after four years in the navy and nearly twenty years working as a security officer for NASA, Agey was forced to retire early following an injury.
A decade after the end of World War One, a bitter conflict unfolded in a Cobourg courtroom, dredging up memories of one of the darkest periods in Canadian history. The Currie Libel Trial, also known as the Third Battle of Mons, saw General Sir Arthur William Currie sue the Port Hope Evening Guide over a frontpage article it published which claimed Currie was responsible for thousands of casualties on the last day of the Great War. Currie sued the paper for the equivalent of $750,000 in today’s currency.
We featured Kathia’s poem “Fear of the Dark” in our latest anthology Light (The Soap Box: Volume IV), and we absolutely loved it! We decided to sit down with Kathia — from a safe physical distance, of course — to get to know her and her poetry better. Her conversation with Marcus began with what drove her to start writing in the first place.
You get a sense of a person when you read their writing, and here at The Soap Box, we read a lot of submissions. Since we’ve been able to learn a little bit about all of you, we thought it's only fair if you can learn a little bit about us. We created a “get to know you” survey and distributed it to our team. In the survey, we asked about each other’s inspirations, our literary likes and dislikes, as well as why we got involved with The Soap Box Press to begin with. Be sure to check out our responses, especially for questions about what we look for in submissions if you’re interested in getting published.
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