@kristybowen.bsky.social
DARK & POEMISH THINGS | ZINES & ART EXPERIMENTS | VINTAGE, THIRIFTING, & DIY | ASSORTED SPOOKINESS What I'm writing, reading, making, listening to, working on, watching, & inspired by... http://www.kristybowen.com
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#31daysofhalloween
Day 18
THE SUMMER HOUSE, a little series of collages and prose poems was published as a virtual chapbook, which you can peruse freely HERE...
thesummerhousepoems.blogspot.com
Some interior spreads of the forthcoming CLOVEN, due out January 2026...
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Day 17
This is an oldie from my very first chapbook, but a goodie...
youtu.be/wXvFa6eKc2o?...
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A handful of years back, this little book was set to be published but sadly the press shuttered before it could be released. As I was making Amazon editions available for my self-issued titles,
I figured what the hay and added this one too...
You can order it HERE:
www.amazon.com/Little-Apoca...
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Day 16
A few years back, @evildolleyes.bsky.social and I did a collab project with my poems and her images devoted to the infamous Wisconsin Slenderman stabbings that became both a zine and an art installation...
you can read the zine, HERE:
heyzine.com/flip-book/47...
15.10.2025 19:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This month's Patreon mailing...
patreon.com/kristybowen
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Day 15
On the blog, I mull over fragmentation and horror in poetry and elsewhere...
kristybowen.blogspot.com/2025/10/31-d...
a new piece from THE MIDNIGHT GARDEN just went up over on Patreon, available to subscribers (even the free one!)
find it here:
www.patreon.com/posts/from-m...
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just ordered the first proof copy of CLOVEN...
#selfpublishing #poetrybook #poetry
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Day 14
My collection, published in 2022, is full of delightfully creepy Victorian vibes by way of famous serial killers, spiritualists, and all other variety of oddities all in one place. You can pick up a signed copy @
kristybowen.blogspot.com/p/automagic....
#collage #digitalcollage
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Day 13
This project from NAPOWRIMO efforts a few years back looks at these strange and detailed dioramas from the p-o-v of their taxidermied inhabitants. You can read the e-version HERE:
heyzine.com/flip-book/0e...
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DAY 12
Some fun and spooky fauxtograph experiments from a couple years back....
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Day 11
SWALLOW was a series of short video poems that I initially imagined as a video chapbook of sorts, with 12 different videos created in the fall of 2021. You can see the entire set of them HERE:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNna...
This week, over on Patreon, we tackle the imposter syndrome monster that hides under our beds...
www.patreon.com/posts/10-min...
(get in on the action with either the digital or printed goods subscription tier.)
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day 10
During the strange months of pandemic lockdowns, I started a series of poems based on The Shining (both King's book and Kubrick's movie adaptation.)
You can read the full zine that came a couple years later for free HERE:
heyzine.com/flip-book/7c...
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Day 9:
UNUSUAL CREATURES was a project that was over a decade in the making, starting with a cache of old family cabinet cards that eventually became a set of framed collages, a library installation of objects and ephemera, and later, a zine: heyzine.com/flip-book/70...
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Day 8
The first summer that I was making video poems, I had no idea what i was doing and the program I was making them in kept crashing my computer. But they didn't turn out half bad and this may be my favorite, created as a trailer/promo for SEX & VIOLENCE...
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DAY 7
Since later this month brings the zine project release of my series of poems based on the NOLA casket girls, it seemed fitting to use a day to post some pretty cemetery photos I took at Lafayette cemetery a decade or so back on a trip down south...
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DAY 5
some fun cryptid zines from a few years back...
They're a little wrinkly just outta the box, but they're HERE! Word witch totes...
find them :
dulcetshop.myshopify.com/products/wor...
