I come to you on the other side of frantic and chaotic wedding planning. On the other side of a few weeks of daily poem writing feverishly to deal with the stresses of that, on a micro level, and the world around us on a macro level. While both the poems and the wedding celebration worked out well (even despite the extreme heat that forced us, very last minute, inside a bar/banquet hall for our woodland whimsigoth vibe picnic) this week has been about resetting, cleaning a chaotic apartment, and trying to get my ducks forever in a row on projects and layouts, as well as charting a path forward through the rest of the summer in terms of timelines.
And since it’s summer officially now, that only means that spooky season, the high holy months of September-November, are right around the corner. which I have many delights planned in the form of New Orleans vampire brides and dystopian robot women. But there is still some spooky left for summer in the form of cursed coastal towns and sideshow horrors in some upcoming e-zine action, so watch for those…
until July….
Kristy
WILDISH
I still have signed available copes of the latest full-length book in the shop HERE. Thanks to all who have picked up a copy and indulged me in my strange little collection that covers a lot of ground between witchy cottages, feral girls wandering the forest, and Alice down under. If you order in the next month, I will also include some bonus postcards from a new set I am working on for the shop.
NEWS & BITS
POEMS ONLINE
I have recently been very good about actually submitting all these brand new poems to journals, which have led to some acceptances for work coming out over the next couple months, the first of which dropped this morning in COLLIDESCOPE. It’s a couple fragments from a brand spanking new series of about swamp bird women. You can read the first couple here, with more to come later this summer over at FANTASTIC OTHER and hopefully some other places.
PATREON
After a couple years languishing, I am relaunching the Patreon, which I’ve simplified considerably from its original version into two tiers…one lower priced option for purely online and digital content and another to get bookish and paper things mailed out on the regular, including some really cool artist book projects. They include a hardcover edition of EXOTICA, which I initially published as an e-zine over the winter, but which was so pretty it needed to be in print (you can get a peek over at IG). I got the proof/prototype last week and will be getting it ready for August for subscribers to that higher-priced tier, which is available for only $11/month. They are a limited, numbered edition, so whether or not some end up in the shop eventually is TBD, so you might want to subscribe to secure one for sure. There are many other things down the pipeline, including some tarot cards and some stereograph prints I’m plotting, plus little papery baubles like prints, postcards, and mini-zines…Also, both tiers come with discounts on shop goods like journals, paper goods, and dgp chapbook series offerings. The lower-priced tier for digital content also has a 7-Day Free Trial opportunity. In addition to sharing work and projects, I am also planning on doing weekly blogs about creating amid chaos called THE TEN-MINUTE POET, with planned articles for July on creative spaces, submitting your work, and advise for young poets.
ON THE BLOG
This past month has bought posts about the in-progress swamp bird women poems , my first experiences reading my work in public, about Greek mythology and horror, and about the 5th anniversary of SEX & VIOLENCE’s release. There will be more coming this month from the memoir project, other kinds of haunting, so keep an eye out for another segment from that.
WORK-IN-PROGRESS
from ALL ALONG THE BALLYHOO*
Picture a diorama in a snow globe,
but instead of snow, a million bits
of glitter. The flutter of moths
above our heads, greasepaint sticky
on our faces and hands. The way
the stage lights caught the shadows
at the corners of the tent. The things
which moved there, frightful.
The things which bred there,
unruly and many-limbed.
The thing with two heads mewled
for days before we bashed in its skulls.
The disembodied hand.
The woman with a shovel for an arm.
The way the dark would call out
and harbor us in hay that smelled
like horse dung and soaked with blood.
(*these are some odds and ends of some more sideshow-themed poems that have been rattling around and are part of the above mentioned stereograph project that is coming towards the end of the year. )
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