Kathryn Gahl shares The Yellow Toothbrush at the Tarlton Theatre
Category: Event Calendar
Date and Time for this Past Event
- Thursday, Sep 8, 2022 6pm - 7:30pm
Location
The Tarlton Theatre
405 W Walnut St
Details
Doors open at 5PM
Refreshments available for purchase at the Theatre
About the book:
Seven years ago writer, mom, and oma Kathryn Gahl found herself on a train she didn’t want to be on, with a ticket she didn’t buy. The Yellow Toothbrush is her journey of mercy. From her daughter’s father’s mother, pregnant in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands, to falling in love with her daughter’s father in Greenwich Village in the 70s, to raising her daughter in a farmhouse with a garden in Wisconsin, to visiting her daughter in prison and what happens after that, Gahl connects the dots of trauma and shows us over and over again the light of love and not giving up.
About the author:
Kathryn Gahl, who holds dual degrees in English and nursing, is a brightly lit performer whose use of language reaches out and grabs an audience. She thinks her focus on language began as a child, eating alphabet soup. Her multi-genre writing, deeply rooted in everyday life, combines a certain human pathos with quick wit and smile-worthy lines. Her works appear in three anthologies, four ekphrastic art shows, and over fifty journals, with awards from Glimmer Train, Margie, Chautauqua, Rosebud, The Mill, Talking Writing, The Hal Prize for Fiction and Poetry, New Millennium Writings, and Wisconsin People & Ideas.
A Pushcart nominee, she served as Writer-in-Residence at Lakeland University. In 2019, The Council of Wisconsin Writers presented her the Lorine Niedecker Poetry Award and in 2021, THE VELOCITY OF LOVE (Water’s Edge Press, 2020) received an Outstanding Achievement Award from the Wisconsin Library Association. Future releases include HARD LIFE, HARD LOVE (Dancing Girl Press, forthcoming 2022), THE YELLOW TOOTHBRUSH (Two Shrews Press, forthcoming 2022), and MESSENGERS OF THE GODS (Cornerstone Press, 2022).
An avid ballroom dancer, she believes in the power of dark chocolate, deep sleep, and red lipstick.
A note from the publisher:
We never thought we’d want to publish this story. It sounded too heartbreaking to read, let alone sell; it turned out to be too big, too truthful, and too beautiful to put down. How do you get people to read something they think they don’t want to know? How do you get people to care about the consequences of legal inequality and postpartum mental health? Knowing we must, we are trying to figure out how. We invite you to join us.
Kathryn Gahl’s heart shows us what’s possible when people choose compassion, and her words show us how.
The Tarlton Theater
405-409 West Walnut Street
Green Bay, WI 54303
