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STUMPT issue six
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STUMPT issue six
$6.00 4.25 x 4.5 12 pages with one fold-out sheet rubber-stamped saddle-stitched binding 80 copies A continuation of the STUMPT series, featuring the best of short-form poetry. This issue holds our longest short-poems to date. issue six includes work from: Stuart Ross Marilyn Irwin Bruce Kauffman Jason Camlot |
Blizzard of None
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Blizzard of None
$4.50 4.25 x 5.5 inches 12 pages saddle-stitched binding 80 copies A short series of short, surreal poems by Jason Heroux. 
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STUMPT issue 5
Stumpt issue 5
$4.75
4.25 x 3
6 pages
machine-sewn
67 copies
A further investigation into the realm of 'tiny'-- issue 5 features an array of poets from around the world working within the space of 5 lines or less.
Sarah Das Gupta
David Romanda
C.W. Bryan
Lee Clark Zumpe
Guy Ewing
Rose Maloukis
$4.75
4.25 x 3
6 pages
machine-sewn
67 copies
A further investigation into the realm of 'tiny'-- issue 5 features an array of poets from around the world working within the space of 5 lines or less.
Sarah Das Gupta
David Romanda
C.W. Bryan
Lee Clark Zumpe
Guy Ewing
Rose Maloukis
STUMPT issue 4 the AbcD issue
Stumpt issue 4 the AbcD issue
$3.00
14 x 2.25 inches
tri-folded to fit
4.25 x 2.5 inch manilla envelope
115 copies
Issue 4 continues this journal's preoccupation with tiny poems and features four Canadian poets known for this type of work.
Cameron Anstee
daniel f. bradley
jwcurry
Paul Dutton
$3.00
14 x 2.25 inches
tri-folded to fit
4.25 x 2.5 inch manilla envelope
115 copies
Issue 4 continues this journal's preoccupation with tiny poems and features four Canadian poets known for this type of work.
Cameron Anstee
daniel f. bradley
jwcurry
Paul Dutton
STUMPT issue 3
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Stumpt issue 3
$12.50 (limited stock!) (approx.) 4 x 3 8 pages Rubber-Stamped Hand-sewn binding 70 numbered copies Issue 3 of this rubber-stamped journals features 3 poets, 3 poems, which all work together as if the collaboration had been intentional. Featuring: Allison Douglas-Tourner Amika Caruso Anna Veprinska |
STUMPT issue 2
Stumpt issue 2
$2.50
(approx.) 3 x 2 folded cardstock housed in 3.5 x 2 envelope
Rubber-Stamped
111 copies
This issue features two short poems by Guy Ewing and Marshall Hryciuk.
$2.50
(approx.) 3 x 2 folded cardstock housed in 3.5 x 2 envelope
Rubber-Stamped
111 copies
This issue features two short poems by Guy Ewing and Marshall Hryciuk.
Untitled "All that winter..."
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by Barbara Caruso
$5.00 (approx) 13 x 6.75 pamphlet, tri-folded, with tipped-in original photograph, housed in a 4.75 x 6.75 envelope. Rubber-stamped 34 copies A single, untitled poem about convalescence, time, and nature. Rubber-stamped on paper and envelopes from Barbara's presspresspress collection. Each publication comes with a unique photograph by Michael e. Casteels. |
NOTES IN THE DARK
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by Amika Caruso
$4.00 (approx) 5.25 x 6 with 4.25 x 14 fold-out tipped in 50 copies A selection from Amika's longer series of NOTES in the DARK. These poems were all jotted into a journal on a bedside table. Written without a source of light, the poems are broken across the page, the linearity of the lines are skewed. |
The RAW ID KID #1
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by Michael e. Casteels
$3.25 8 pages 4.25 x 5.5 saddle-stitched binding A cubist meta-western collage comic. Follow the Raw Id Kid as he travels through his unconscious, meeting and facing off with different facets of his personality. A deeply psychological exploration. |
Frontenac, Autumnal Hymns
by Michael e. Casteels
$5.00
28 pages
4.25 x 5.5
saddle-stitched binding
Written during a four-day back country hiking trip with his dog, these poems are haikuish snapshots of autumn. A collection for nature lovers, dog lovers, and folks who love short, observational poems.
$5.00
28 pages
4.25 x 5.5
saddle-stitched binding
Written during a four-day back country hiking trip with his dog, these poems are haikuish snapshots of autumn. A collection for nature lovers, dog lovers, and folks who love short, observational poems.
STUMPT issue 1
STUMPT issue 1
$5.00
12 pages
4.75 x 4 (roughly)
hand-sewn binding w. used envelope as dust jacket.
STUMPT is a new rubber-stamped journal of small poems. Issue one is printed on used envelopes, off cut paper, and housed in a cereal box board cover. Each copy is unique. This issue pays homage to my friend jwcurry, whose own work with this medium has been highly influential. (See an example HERE)
Issue one features poetry by:
Dale Tracy
Bob MacKenzie
Guy Ewing
Jason Heroux
Pearl Pirie
Alicia Hilton
Angeline Schellenberg
& Mark Laba
$5.00
12 pages
4.75 x 4 (roughly)
hand-sewn binding w. used envelope as dust jacket.
STUMPT is a new rubber-stamped journal of small poems. Issue one is printed on used envelopes, off cut paper, and housed in a cereal box board cover. Each copy is unique. This issue pays homage to my friend jwcurry, whose own work with this medium has been highly influential. (See an example HERE)
Issue one features poetry by:
Dale Tracy
Bob MacKenzie
Guy Ewing
Jason Heroux
Pearl Pirie
Alicia Hilton
Angeline Schellenberg
& Mark Laba
illiterature. issue nine. a journal of decomposition.
illiterature. issue nine. a journal of decomposition.
$11.00
5.5 by 8.5
32 pages, 4 color, plus 4.25 by 5.5 leaflet tucked in envelope
hand-sewn binding
edited by Michael e. Casteels
features work decomposed by:
Sacha Archer
Linda Armstrong
Daniel f. Bradley
Timothy Dodd
Elee Kraljii Gardiner
Robyn Groth
Janis Butler Holm
Charlotte Jung
Bob MacKenzie
Rose Maloukis
Michael Marcinkowski
Randee Silv
Hugh Thomas
Katy Wimhurst
$11.00
5.5 by 8.5
32 pages, 4 color, plus 4.25 by 5.5 leaflet tucked in envelope
hand-sewn binding
edited by Michael e. Casteels
features work decomposed by:
Sacha Archer
Linda Armstrong
Daniel f. Bradley
Timothy Dodd
Elee Kraljii Gardiner
Robyn Groth
Janis Butler Holm
Charlotte Jung
Bob MacKenzie
Rose Maloukis
Michael Marcinkowski
Randee Silv
Hugh Thomas
Katy Wimhurst
ecology of my immediate area
by Trevor Root
$7.00
3.5 x 5.5 inches
Rubber stamped chapbook
12 pages, printed rectos only, except final page verso printed with publishing information. Printed covers.
hand-sewn binding
ecology of my immediate area is a chapbook of 6 minimalist poems. These are dense poems with an airy quality that allows for multiple readings and interpretations. Readers who like the work of other minimalist writers such as Mark Truscott or Jack Davis will certainly find pleasure in the highly original poems of Trevor Root.
$7.00
3.5 x 5.5 inches
Rubber stamped chapbook
12 pages, printed rectos only, except final page verso printed with publishing information. Printed covers.
hand-sewn binding
ecology of my immediate area is a chapbook of 6 minimalist poems. These are dense poems with an airy quality that allows for multiple readings and interpretations. Readers who like the work of other minimalist writers such as Mark Truscott or Jack Davis will certainly find pleasure in the highly original poems of Trevor Root.
STAMPED
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by Michael e. Casteels
$4.50 2 1/2 by 2 1/8 6 pages rubber-stamped, rectos only saddle-stitched binding dust cover jacket STAMPED is a minimalist, 5-word essay on the subject of rubber stamped publications. It pays homage to Barbara Caruso's presspresspress books in form and content. Printed on paper and card stock donated to Puddles of Sky Press from the estate of Nelson Ball and Barbara Caruso. |
wind
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by Guy Ewing
$7.00 5.5 by 2.68 12 pages rubber-stamped, rectos only hand-sewn binding In a series of three line, minimalist poems, Guy Ewing observes the natural world hidden in the urban. While walking this fine line between world, he reflects on growing older while being "gently pushed / by wind" An entirely rubber-stamped chapbook, for anyone with a fondness for brief, thoughtful poems. |
FLOWS
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by andrew topel
$4.50 4.25 by 5.5 16 pages hand-sewn binding Flows is a series of visual poems that shift and sway across the page. From the crests to the troughs, these poetic waves crash upon the shoreline of the reader's eyes. |
One Simple Symmetry & Nine Variations
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by derek beaulieu
$8.00 6.75 by 8.25 chapbook housed in rubber stamped envelope 13 printed pages hand-sewn binding One Simple Symmetry & Nine Variations is a suite of visual poems. The original is Letraset on paper and the pieces that follow are photocopy manipulations, each creating a fluid, liquid response to the strict symmetry of the original, moving the formality of Letraset into something amorphous and organic. |
The Man with the Spider Scar
by Michael e. Casteels
$20.00 (includes shipping in Canada)
$22.00 (includes shipping to U.S.A)
$25.00 (includes shipping overseas)
4.25 by 5.5 inches
68 pages
perfect bound
The Man with the Spider Scar is a collage poem sourced from two pocket Westerns by Louis L'Amour. By snagging brief snippets of text the poem was slowly composed over the span of a few years. Broken into fifty minimalist pieces, the poem tells the story of a nameless horse thief and his surreal, and sometimes bloody search for an untouched land.
"Louis L'Amour Westerns are my guilty pleasure reading. They are easily digestible, I can usually polish off an entire book in an afternoon. The main problem I find is that after reading a few they all start to blend together. The main characters are always the same, their thoughts, morals, ethics, and voice all feel like one person. For a while I was hoping to stumble across a story that comes from a villainous point of view, but after reading through a few more books I decided that I'd need to come up with my own. Using the words of Louis L'Amour and my own penchant for surreal poetry I crafted The Man with the Spider Scar."
There was in me
a quality I never trusted.
A dull fury paused
in the prime of its life.
Utterly hackles.
Complete fists.
A quiet sort of man,
no older than myself.
Printed at Coach House Printing, this is the second perfect bound book published by Puddles of Sky Press. Printed on 70lb Zephyr Laid paper, wrapped with a textured 80lb card stock cover, measuring 4.25 by 5.5 inches, and 68 pages in length, The Man with the Spider Scar a small book that packs a big punch.
$20.00 (includes shipping in Canada)
$22.00 (includes shipping to U.S.A)
$25.00 (includes shipping overseas)
4.25 by 5.5 inches
68 pages
perfect bound
The Man with the Spider Scar is a collage poem sourced from two pocket Westerns by Louis L'Amour. By snagging brief snippets of text the poem was slowly composed over the span of a few years. Broken into fifty minimalist pieces, the poem tells the story of a nameless horse thief and his surreal, and sometimes bloody search for an untouched land.
"Louis L'Amour Westerns are my guilty pleasure reading. They are easily digestible, I can usually polish off an entire book in an afternoon. The main problem I find is that after reading a few they all start to blend together. The main characters are always the same, their thoughts, morals, ethics, and voice all feel like one person. For a while I was hoping to stumble across a story that comes from a villainous point of view, but after reading through a few more books I decided that I'd need to come up with my own. Using the words of Louis L'Amour and my own penchant for surreal poetry I crafted The Man with the Spider Scar."
There was in me
a quality I never trusted.
A dull fury paused
in the prime of its life.
Utterly hackles.
Complete fists.
A quiet sort of man,
no older than myself.
Printed at Coach House Printing, this is the second perfect bound book published by Puddles of Sky Press. Printed on 70lb Zephyr Laid paper, wrapped with a textured 80lb card stock cover, measuring 4.25 by 5.5 inches, and 68 pages in length, The Man with the Spider Scar a small book that packs a big punch.
Gordon Downie Pier (winter)
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by Allison Chisholm
$5.50 3 by 4 6 pp machine-stitched binding Written on one of her morning lakeside runs, Gordon Downie Pier (winter) is a minimalist poem of observation by Allison Chisholm. Interpreted by publisher Michael e. Casteels,the poem is spread across four pages to create a poem-object, and reading experience. |
& still
by Jennifer Books & jwcurry & Dorothy Howard
$7.00
4.5 by 3.5
12 pp
Hand-sewn binding
& still is a series of six collaborative haikuish poems, verging on the visual. They are highly succinct and cerebrally-stimulating.
The original manuscript was completed in August of 1998. After a rejection or two the manuscript got filed away and is only now in print. These poems have simmered for over a decade. They will please anyone with an interest in minimalist poems.
$7.00
4.5 by 3.5
12 pp
Hand-sewn binding
& still is a series of six collaborative haikuish poems, verging on the visual. They are highly succinct and cerebrally-stimulating.
The original manuscript was completed in August of 1998. After a rejection or two the manuscript got filed away and is only now in print. These poems have simmered for over a decade. They will please anyone with an interest in minimalist poems.
A Barely Concealed Design
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by MA|DE $6.50 5.5 by 4 10 pp Japanese binding & rubber stamped cover Kiss lavender, lilac,meadows of sweetgrass; this tryst uncloaking vulgar winter yearnings. MA|DE (est. 2018) is a collaborative writing entity comprising interdisciplinary artist Mark Laliberte (author of asemanticasymmetry – Anstruther 2017) and writer Jade Wallace (author of Rituals of Parsing – Anstruther 2018). MA|DE’s poems have appeared in Poetry is Dead, PRISM International, The Anti-Languorous Project, Trinity Review and Vallum. MA|DE has authored two chapbooks: Test Centre (Zed Press 2019) and A Trip to the ZZOO (Collusion Books 2020) and are currently working on their first full-length collection. Please visit: ma-de.ca |
Words in Place
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by Cameron Anstee $4.50 2.5 by 2.25 6 pages rubber stamped saddle stitched with dust jacket A minimalist poem presented as a microchapbook. |
MicroWestern
by Michael e. Casteels
$4.50
2.5 by 2
6 pages
rubber stamped
saddle-stitched with dust jacket
A minimalist epic western in 4 words.
$4.50
2.5 by 2
6 pages
rubber stamped
saddle-stitched with dust jacket
A minimalist epic western in 4 words.
F(OL)LOW
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by Piotr Szreniawski
$8.00 4.25 by 5.5 7 individual cards in envelope Shipping $1.50 in Canada Shipping $5.00 International F(ol)low is the result of 7 different meta-poems. Piotr provided Michael e. Casteels with instructions towards visual poems, which he then interpreted using rubber stamps and different colored inks. For example: use letters e u g o l a i d, each letter should be pressed twice, overlapping. random places on the page. or: use letter "e". write with ink, do not stamp, but make wavy lines, four to six lines, one under another so that they look more or less like a traditional poem (only not understandable). no spaces between "words", just lines. sometimes the "e" should be readable. |
MBRYO
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by Charlotte Jung
$4.50
3.25 by 2.5
10 pages
Machine-sewn
A chapbook of 5 micro-visual-poems that touch on fertility, conception, pregnancy, the formation of a new life.
$4.50
3.25 by 2.5
10 pages
Machine-sewn
A chapbook of 5 micro-visual-poems that touch on fertility, conception, pregnancy, the formation of a new life.
illiterature. issue 8 & a 1/2
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edited by Michael e. Casteels
$4.50 4.25 by 4 16 pages hand-sewn binding illiterature. issue 8 1/2 includes 7 tiny poems by: Kemeny Babineau David Alexander Cameron Anstee Justin Patrick Angeline Schellenberg Conor Barnes Charlotte Jung |
The Clot Thickens!
By William A. Davison
$5.00
1 by 11
24 pages
Japanese Hand-Sewn Binding
The Clot Thickens! is a collection of one-line poems. Don't let their brevity fool you. These poems accomplish with one-line what other poems need fourteen or more to do. Surreal, funny, mind-altering, and thought-expanding. What this book lacks in height, it makes up for in length.
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Against all better judgement, we decided to eat the sport utility van.
$5.00
1 by 11
24 pages
Japanese Hand-Sewn Binding
The Clot Thickens! is a collection of one-line poems. Don't let their brevity fool you. These poems accomplish with one-line what other poems need fourteen or more to do. Surreal, funny, mind-altering, and thought-expanding. What this book lacks in height, it makes up for in length.
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Against all better judgement, we decided to eat the sport utility van.
ABANDON G*DSPEAK
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By Gustave Morin $5.00 5.5 by 8.5 16 pages Saddle-Stitched Binding ABANDON G*DSPEAK is a collection of visual poems crafted through various means: collage, typewriter, rubber stamp, and sometimes a combination of two or more of these techniques. |
illiterature. issue eight. a journal of rubber-stamped poems.
edited by Michael e. Casteels
$12.00
11 separate publications tucked into
a card stock envelope: 6 by 8.
11 haikuish poems, published as separate booklets, broadsides, envelopes, etc. A continued exploration in fusing a poems with their printed form.
illiterature. issue eight. a journal of rubber-stamped poems. includes work from:
Conor Barnes
Gabriel Bates
Michael e. Casteels
Conyer Clayton
Robin Wyatt Dunn
LeRoy Gorman
Kevin Heslop
Zane Koss
Ben Robinson
Kate Siklosi
Robert R. Thurman
$12.00
11 separate publications tucked into
a card stock envelope: 6 by 8.
11 haikuish poems, published as separate booklets, broadsides, envelopes, etc. A continued exploration in fusing a poems with their printed form.
illiterature. issue eight. a journal of rubber-stamped poems. includes work from:
Conor Barnes
Gabriel Bates
Michael e. Casteels
Conyer Clayton
Robin Wyatt Dunn
LeRoy Gorman
Kevin Heslop
Zane Koss
Ben Robinson
Kate Siklosi
Robert R. Thurman
To My Beloved Puppy
By Brady Kumpf
$3.50
4.25 by 5.5
12 pages
Saddle-stitched binding
As the title suggests, this is a love poem for a dog. Written by 14 year-old poet, Brady Kumpf. At times sweet, funny, and sorrowful. Tonal shifts from formal to playful and back again within a single verse. A little chapbook for those who love dogs and fine poetry.
$3.50
4.25 by 5.5
12 pages
Saddle-stitched binding
As the title suggests, this is a love poem for a dog. Written by 14 year-old poet, Brady Kumpf. At times sweet, funny, and sorrowful. Tonal shifts from formal to playful and back again within a single verse. A little chapbook for those who love dogs and fine poetry.
Book of Cedar **SOLD OUT **
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By Guy Ewing $7.50 3.5 by 2.5 4 pages Hand-sewn binding Book of Cedar, is a single-poem chapbook by Guy Ewing. The cover is textured card stock, and the interior is fine, rice paper. This publication is entirely rubber-stamped. The binding is hand-sewn. Housed in a manila envelope. Both chapbook and poem speak to each other in this publication, creating a minimalist-poem-object. |
99 cents **SOLD OUT**
By Allison Chisholm
$9.00
2 by 2
4 pages
Machine Binding
99 cents is a mysterious and darkly funny micro-poem by Allison Chisholm. What it lacks in length it makes up for in the many ways it can be read.
Allison Chisholm lives and writes in Kingston, Ontario. Her poetry has appeared in The Northern Testicle Review, the Puddles of Sky chap-poem The Dollhouse, The Week Shall Inherit The Verse, and the Proper Tales Press chapbook On the Count of One. She played glockenspiel in the Hawaiian-dream-pop band SCUB. Her photography has been exhibited in the Tiniest Gallery. Her first full-length collection, On the Count of None will be published by Anvil Press in autumn of 2018.
$9.00
2 by 2
4 pages
Machine Binding
99 cents is a mysterious and darkly funny micro-poem by Allison Chisholm. What it lacks in length it makes up for in the many ways it can be read.
Allison Chisholm lives and writes in Kingston, Ontario. Her poetry has appeared in The Northern Testicle Review, the Puddles of Sky chap-poem The Dollhouse, The Week Shall Inherit The Verse, and the Proper Tales Press chapbook On the Count of One. She played glockenspiel in the Hawaiian-dream-pop band SCUB. Her photography has been exhibited in the Tiniest Gallery. Her first full-length collection, On the Count of None will be published by Anvil Press in autumn of 2018.
DuD
By Michael e. Casteels
$4.00
4.25 by 5.5
7 pages
Stapled Binding
DuD is a series of five visual variations on a three-letter poem, composed with dry-transfer lettering.
$4.00
4.25 by 5.5
7 pages
Stapled Binding
DuD is a series of five visual variations on a three-letter poem, composed with dry-transfer lettering.
Wet Cement
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By Michael e. Casteels
$12.00 5.5 by 4.25 hand-stamped envelope containing: 3 hand-stamped envelopes: 2.5 by 4.25 1 instruction page/Canvas: 5.5 by 8.5, folded Wet Cement is a series of concrete poems that have yet to set. Each copy contains 3 unique poems, punched from paper samples from the Strathmore Paper Company. The poems themselves are separated into three categories. A. is a text-based poem. In some cases, a visual haiku. In other cases, a one-word poem. B. is a poem based on texture. In some cased the texture might be color, in other cases, the shapes of the letters. Sometimes the texture is a combination of the two. C. is a minimalist visual poem. Part chapbook, part poetry-object, Wet Cement is a collection for anyone interested in composing/re-composing their own visual poems. |
snowfall **SOLD OUT**
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By Michael e. Casteels
$10.00 4.25 by 4.25 1 card (and colophon) in printed envelope A minimalist poem-object. Envelope and poem hand-struck on a Hermes 3000 typewriter. Colophon hand-stamped and included in envelope. Published in an edition of 20 numbered copies. |
EARTHQUACKS & Other One-Word Poems **Limited Stock**
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By Michael e. Casteels
$8.50 4.5 by 3 Envelope 10 Cards An entirely hand-stamped publication of 11 one-word poems, each printed on an individual card. What kind of images can be created with the use of a single word? Can a one-word poem create movement? How many ways can you read a one-word poem? How deep into each word can you venture? These are some of the questions Michael e. Casteels attempts to answer with this series of poems. A truly tactile experience. |
ocean in a cell **Limited Stock** (only two available)
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By Guy Ewing $12.00 3.5 by 3 20 pages Hand-Sewn Binding ocean in a cell is a collection of minimalist, two-line poems. Read through the changing seasons, the shifting light & shadow, and the intermingling of nature and city life. Rubber-stamped chapbook in a limited run of 80 copies. |
Lagoon. Still Lagoon.
By Michael e. Casteels
$5.00
4.25 by 5.5
24 pages
Saddle-Stitched Binding
A mix of surreal prose and lyric poems, featuring the bizarre and the everyday.
My Departure from Gallantry
The day began with a stone hefted through the lake’s window. There was no piecing back my reflection. I was lagoon. Again and again I was lagoon. Nothing would change the simple fact that nothing would the simple fact. It was very simple: everything had changed, and I was still lagoon.
Review by rob mclennan
The Vispo Bible: The Book of Esther
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By Amanda Earl $4.00 4.25 by 5.5 16 Pages Saddle-Stitched Binding Each piece in this little collection represents one chapter from the Book of Esther, Old Testament. The text is taken from the King James Version, and then altered, manipulated, and poetisized into these lovely little visual poems. |
Lazing West No. 1 *Out of Stock**
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While we only have a copy or two left for sale, the chapbook is available to be read at: MONOSKOP.org
By Michael e. Casteels $15.50 8 pages, card-stock covers, full color hand-sewn binding Lazing West No. 1 is a collection of comic-poems borrowing from Golden Age comics that are now in the public domain. The source material 'Blazing West' was originally published by American Comics Group in 1948-1951. These comics have been broken apart and re-assembled frame by frame. Rather than focusing on narrative or character or plot, these comics focus on shape, color, texture, repetition. This process has created these surreal-western-visual poetry-comics. |
illiterature. issue 7. a journal of found poetry.
edited by Michael e. Casteels
$12.00
46 pages
Two glued-in envelopes. One contains a mini 8-page chapbook in full color. The other includes a unique found poem in the form of a dictionary page fragment.
Includes Found Nor Lost a supplemental chapbook by John M. Bennett, loosely tucked into the issue. It's meant to get lost and be found again.
issue 7 of illiterature. investigates the possibilities of found poems. Inside you'll find facebook mis-translations, collage, black-out poems, oddball Wikipedia articles, erasure poems, screen shots from kids television shows, overheard conversations, and a whole lot more.
Featuring poems discovered by:
Cameron Anstee
Sacha Archer
Nelson Ball
Gary Barwin
Michael e. Casteels
jwcurry
JM Francheteau
David Fujino
LeRoy Gorman
Wharton Hood
R. Keith
Lorette C. Luzajic
Bob MacKenzie
Lori Propheter
Sandra Ridley
Elisha Rubacha
Fraser Sutherland
andrew topel
$12.00
46 pages
Two glued-in envelopes. One contains a mini 8-page chapbook in full color. The other includes a unique found poem in the form of a dictionary page fragment.
Includes Found Nor Lost a supplemental chapbook by John M. Bennett, loosely tucked into the issue. It's meant to get lost and be found again.
issue 7 of illiterature. investigates the possibilities of found poems. Inside you'll find facebook mis-translations, collage, black-out poems, oddball Wikipedia articles, erasure poems, screen shots from kids television shows, overheard conversations, and a whole lot more.
Featuring poems discovered by:
Cameron Anstee
Sacha Archer
Nelson Ball
Gary Barwin
Michael e. Casteels
jwcurry
JM Francheteau
David Fujino
LeRoy Gorman
Wharton Hood
R. Keith
Lorette C. Luzajic
Bob MacKenzie
Lori Propheter
Sandra Ridley
Elisha Rubacha
Fraser Sutherland
andrew topel
Tusk-a-Loose'a
By Mark Laba
$5.00
4.25 by 8.5
24 pages
saddle-stitched binding
A long poem in 18 parts. Each poem is a sentence that stretches like a scenic highway, taking you along for the ride.
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Lately I've thought about the narwhal tusk
As a navigation device for my mini-van
A way to breeze along through the bi-ways and highways
Of a nation I just invented that I call well I forget
What I called it
But you can bet your bottom dollar
It was one hell'uva nation
Before it sank into the ocean
Which wasn't my fault
As I was at the orthodontist
And my second-in-command
Was crushed under an avalanche
Of packing peanuts.
$5.00
4.25 by 8.5
24 pages
saddle-stitched binding
A long poem in 18 parts. Each poem is a sentence that stretches like a scenic highway, taking you along for the ride.
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Lately I've thought about the narwhal tusk
As a navigation device for my mini-van
A way to breeze along through the bi-ways and highways
Of a nation I just invented that I call well I forget
What I called it
But you can bet your bottom dollar
It was one hell'uva nation
Before it sank into the ocean
Which wasn't my fault
As I was at the orthodontist
And my second-in-command
Was crushed under an avalanche
Of packing peanuts.
Yesterday is on the Way
By Jason Heroux
$4.00
Tri-fold pamphlet in hand-stamped envelope.
Three poems by the everyday surrealist, Jason Heroux. Themes include: uncertainty (I thought clouds/ were white maps/ in heaven's glove-box), following rules (Our wild leader/said you have to play/ if you want to be a kid), and flip-flopping (I walked down to the lake/ there was no lake/ I became the lake).
$4.00
Tri-fold pamphlet in hand-stamped envelope.
Three poems by the everyday surrealist, Jason Heroux. Themes include: uncertainty (I thought clouds/ were white maps/ in heaven's glove-box), following rules (Our wild leader/said you have to play/ if you want to be a kid), and flip-flopping (I walked down to the lake/ there was no lake/ I became the lake).
rained, and
By Phoebe Tsang and John Riegert
$4.00
8 pages
8.5 by 11
stapled binding
Newspaper articles turned into black-out poemsnd turned into visual poem drawings.
4 pieces from an ongoing collaboration between poet Phoebe Tsang and artist John Riegert.
$4.00
8 pages
8.5 by 11
stapled binding
Newspaper articles turned into black-out poemsnd turned into visual poem drawings.
4 pieces from an ongoing collaboration between poet Phoebe Tsang and artist John Riegert.
framework
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By andrew topel $7.00 40 pages 4.25 by 5.5 saddle-stitched binding In this collection of visual poetry by andrew topel we are introduced to pieces centering around the use of a frame. A frame appears in each piece, but the poems themselves never feel constrained. While it's true a few of poems exist within the boundaries of the frame, most pieces break through the four walls leaving the reader's mind to think outside of the box. |
Dishwashing Event Part Two: Ontario
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By Sacha Archer
$5.00 20 pages 5.5 by 8.5 Hand-Sewn Binding The poems, included in Dishwashing Event, Part Two: Ontario, Canada, are the linguistic offshoot of daily dishwashing. A speech recognition program translated and transformed the noise of dishwashing into words recorded by the speech recognition program into a document in Microsoft Word. Each poem records one day’s bout of washing. When the scrubbing and rinsing had finished and the dishware was found clean and stacked in the dishrack, a poem had accumulated, had accrued. And an event had ended. Concrete poetry featured on the cover and throughout the book by Jess Rowlands |
illiterature. issue six. a journal of one-word poems.
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Edited by Michael e. Casteels
$12.00 54 pages 5.5 by 8.5 Stapled Binding Shipping in Canada $2, Shipping to U.S.A $3, Shipping overseas $5 a journal of one-word poems featuring work from: Cameron Anstee Sacha Archer Jennifer Baker Gary Barwin Sidney Bending Barbara Caruso Ron Chase Amanda Earl David Fujino Scott Keeney LeRoy Gorman Jason Heroux Mark Laliberte Robin McLachlen Pearl Pirie Dale Tracy Margaret Rutley Eric Schmaltz Carl Watts |
illiterature. issue v. the graphic novel
Edited by Michael e. Casteels
$25.00
Shipping: In Canada $2; Shipping to the U.S $4; Overseas Shipping $12.00
76 pages
7 by 8.5
Perfect Bound
illiterature. issue v. is a graphic novel of collaboration. Part visual poetry, part comic book, the work of fifteen contributors is meshed together into a seamless, abstract narrative.
Featuring:
Nelson Ball, Gary Barwin, derek beaulieu, Amanda Earl, Claudio Ghirardo, Faye Harnest, Gene Kannenberg, Jr., Mark Laba, Mark Laliberte, Chris Piuma, sven staelens, Lin Tarczynski, andrew topel, Dale Tracy, & Nico Vassilakis.
$25.00
Shipping: In Canada $2; Shipping to the U.S $4; Overseas Shipping $12.00
76 pages
7 by 8.5
Perfect Bound
illiterature. issue v. is a graphic novel of collaboration. Part visual poetry, part comic book, the work of fifteen contributors is meshed together into a seamless, abstract narrative.
Featuring:
Nelson Ball, Gary Barwin, derek beaulieu, Amanda Earl, Claudio Ghirardo, Faye Harnest, Gene Kannenberg, Jr., Mark Laba, Mark Laliberte, Chris Piuma, sven staelens, Lin Tarczynski, andrew topel, Dale Tracy, & Nico Vassilakis.
The Hopeful Barnacle New & Selected Poems 2005-2015
By Andrew Nurse
$10.00
44 pages
5.5 by 8.5
Stapled Binding
A culmination from the last 10 years of travel, performing, social vortexes, making music, sitting on a bench, and hiding from the world.
Monuments
the places of my youth walk through me like busy ghosts
discard the memories like photos burning to dust
“there is signal fire
through the fog”
hope my eyes
this is just another ship
sinking
i wake up in a circle of my own footprints
no tide, no
soggy space
just a mind pecking
out of its skull
how do you like your eggs?
$10.00
44 pages
5.5 by 8.5
Stapled Binding
A culmination from the last 10 years of travel, performing, social vortexes, making music, sitting on a bench, and hiding from the world.
Monuments
the places of my youth walk through me like busy ghosts
discard the memories like photos burning to dust
“there is signal fire
through the fog”
hope my eyes
this is just another ship
sinking
i wake up in a circle of my own footprints
no tide, no
soggy space
just a mind pecking
out of its skull
how do you like your eggs?
check engine. rhinoceros. tungsten.
By Michael e. Casteels
$5.00
32 pages
5.5 by 8.5
Hand-Sewn Binding
Check Engine Sonnet
The irises arrive, serene and swallowing
the orchard, the sultan seated beneath harvest.
Pupils dilate and ripen in this hinterland, this
salubrious work-in-progress. A pheasant
integrates from treetop to treetop; the curtains
part and there she is, oh trembling heart,
oh hyperventilation! If I were a horse I’d
equilibrate, if a rhinoceros I’d radiate
tungsten. But I am only a salvaged typewriter
draped in seaweed; my bell no longer dings.
She is one dozen donuts. To blink would obliterate.
To drown in the ordnance of her synaesthesia,
I’d punctuate this moment with a phalanx of ampersands,
I’d lasso that golden sphere you sometimes see in the sky.
$5.00
32 pages
5.5 by 8.5
Hand-Sewn Binding
Check Engine Sonnet
The irises arrive, serene and swallowing
the orchard, the sultan seated beneath harvest.
Pupils dilate and ripen in this hinterland, this
salubrious work-in-progress. A pheasant
integrates from treetop to treetop; the curtains
part and there she is, oh trembling heart,
oh hyperventilation! If I were a horse I’d
equilibrate, if a rhinoceros I’d radiate
tungsten. But I am only a salvaged typewriter
draped in seaweed; my bell no longer dings.
She is one dozen donuts. To blink would obliterate.
To drown in the ordnance of her synaesthesia,
I’d punctuate this moment with a phalanx of ampersands,
I’d lasso that golden sphere you sometimes see in the sky.
Hallelujah
By Christine Miscione
$5.00
12 pages
4.25 by 5.5
Hand-Sewn Binding
A single short story by Christine Miscione.
$5.00
12 pages
4.25 by 5.5
Hand-Sewn Binding
A single short story by Christine Miscione.
Two Chapters Toward an Epic
By Michael e. Casteels
$2.00
8 pages
4.25 by 5.5
Saddle Stitched Binding
Two prose poems from a work in progress.
$2.00
8 pages
4.25 by 5.5
Saddle Stitched Binding
Two prose poems from a work in progress.
illiterature. issue iv.
illiterature. issue iv.
edited by Michael e. Casteels
$10.00
36 Pages, plus 12 page mini-chapbook
4.5 by 5.5
hand-stamped cover
hand-sewn binding
Features poetry by:
Cameron Anstee
Sarah Burgoyne
Jaime Forsythe
Phil Hall
Marshall Hryciuk
Chris Michaud
Gustave Morin
Stephen Nelson
Brent Raycroft
Stuart Ross
Robert Swereda
edited by Michael e. Casteels
$10.00
36 Pages, plus 12 page mini-chapbook
4.5 by 5.5
hand-stamped cover
hand-sewn binding
Features poetry by:
Cameron Anstee
Sarah Burgoyne
Jaime Forsythe
Phil Hall
Marshall Hryciuk
Chris Michaud
Gustave Morin
Stephen Nelson
Brent Raycroft
Stuart Ross
Robert Swereda
The Magistrate's Glass Figures & Other Tales
By Katherine Romba
Illustrated by Heather Smith
$10.00
20 Pages
7 by 8.5
hand-sewn binding
This chapbook collects seven short stories from Kingston writer Katherine Romba. Each story reads like a fairy tale, or a fable. A town is haunted when dead relatives return from the sea. A city is thrown into turmoil when glass figures are broken. An inn is visited by a wolf. There are many wonderful, frightening, and magical moments in these stories. Beautifully illustrated by Heather Smith, The Magistrate's Glass Figures & Other Tales is a perfect book for anyone who has an affinity for fairy tales.
Chicken Scratch
By David Alexander
$5.00
24 pages
4.25 by 5.5
saddle-stitched/glued into cover
A chapbook of chicken poems. Poems that translate other poems in the book. Poems in which language takes flight. Poems in which language rattles the bars of its cage. Funny poems. Serious poems. Poems that will make you question. This chapbook has it all.
$5.00
24 pages
4.25 by 5.5
saddle-stitched/glued into cover
A chapbook of chicken poems. Poems that translate other poems in the book. Poems in which language takes flight. Poems in which language rattles the bars of its cage. Funny poems. Serious poems. Poems that will make you question. This chapbook has it all.
aftermaths
By LeRoy Gorman
$5.00
20 pages
4.25 by 5.5
hand-sewn binding
Part minimalist, part visual, and part mathematical equation.
$5.00
20 pages
4.25 by 5.5
hand-sewn binding
Part minimalist, part visual, and part mathematical equation.
Nice Haircut, Fiddlehead
By Stuart Ross
$5.00
20 pages
5.5 by 8.5
hand-sewn binding
A real surprise bag of a chapbook. Inside you'll find a sonnet, a prose poem, a list poem, a poem with a single word for each line, an elegy, a lament, a translation of a translation, and a whack of other wonderful poems.
a review by rob mclennan
Find Stuart at: http://bloggamooga.blogspot.ca/
$5.00
20 pages
5.5 by 8.5
hand-sewn binding
A real surprise bag of a chapbook. Inside you'll find a sonnet, a prose poem, a list poem, a poem with a single word for each line, an elegy, a lament, a translation of a translation, and a whack of other wonderful poems.
a review by rob mclennan
Find Stuart at: http://bloggamooga.blogspot.ca/
illiterature. issue three.
A Journal of Minimalist Poetry
Edited by Michael e. Casteels
$22.00
49 pages
5.5 by 8.5 inches
stapled binding
This issue features minimalist poetry by:
Nelson Ball
Gary Barwin
derek beaulieu
Judith Copithorne
jwcurry
Amanda Earl
Jesse Patrick Ferguson
David Fujino
Geof Huth
anatol knotek
Nicholas Papaxanthos
Aram Saroyan
Gerry Shikatani
Sandra Stephenson
George Swede
Mark Truscott
Edited by Michael e. Casteels
$22.00
49 pages
5.5 by 8.5 inches
stapled binding
This issue features minimalist poetry by:
Nelson Ball
Gary Barwin
derek beaulieu
Judith Copithorne
jwcurry
Amanda Earl
Jesse Patrick Ferguson
David Fujino
Geof Huth
anatol knotek
Nicholas Papaxanthos
Aram Saroyan
Gerry Shikatani
Sandra Stephenson
George Swede
Mark Truscott
Strange Roads
By Howie Good
$5.00
28 Pages
5.5 by 8.5 inches; saddle stitched
a book of prose poems where humorous & haunting images meet within the same sentence. Sorrow meets laughter meets confusion but somehow all makes perfect sense. Here's a brief taste:
Desecrations
I wonder how that can be. The recipe calls for a pinch of sorrow, the clouds beyond the rain-smeared kitchen window like the gloomy thoughts of stranded whales. I try to remember the last time honesty was the best policy. The autobiography of a lipstick-stained cigarette filter I consult is no help. So many people stumble out of their mothers with drought-stricken faces, all crooked lines and lumpy shadows, that I don't know where to look first. Someone suggests the waiting area, slumped on a molded plastic chair.
$5.00
28 Pages
5.5 by 8.5 inches; saddle stitched
a book of prose poems where humorous & haunting images meet within the same sentence. Sorrow meets laughter meets confusion but somehow all makes perfect sense. Here's a brief taste:
Desecrations
I wonder how that can be. The recipe calls for a pinch of sorrow, the clouds beyond the rain-smeared kitchen window like the gloomy thoughts of stranded whales. I try to remember the last time honesty was the best policy. The autobiography of a lipstick-stained cigarette filter I consult is no help. So many people stumble out of their mothers with drought-stricken faces, all crooked lines and lumpy shadows, that I don't know where to look first. Someone suggests the waiting area, slumped on a molded plastic chair.
Cemantics, minimalist, found & concrete poems
By Michael e. Casteels
$5.00
18 pages
5.5 by 4.25 inches; saddle stitched
This chapbook features poetry that has been cut down to its bare minimum. Short poems that refer to rain, pigeons, clocktowers and bike riding. Two pages fold out to reveal larger visual pieces.
$5.00
18 pages
5.5 by 4.25 inches; saddle stitched
This chapbook features poetry that has been cut down to its bare minimum. Short poems that refer to rain, pigeons, clocktowers and bike riding. Two pages fold out to reveal larger visual pieces.
illiterature. issue two.
a journal of surreal & visual poetry
$5.00
32 Pages
5.5 by 8.5 inches; saddle stitched
illiterature. issue two. features poetry by:
rob mclennan
Ashley-Elizabeth Best
Jesse Patrick Ferguson
Natalie King
Howie Good
Andrew Topel
Michael Nelson
Kevin Spenst
Sarah Richardson
James J. Stevenson
Darius Kinney
Derek Russel
Bob MacKenzie
Dustin Unger
Domenico Capilongo
&
Gary Barwin
$5.00
32 Pages
5.5 by 8.5 inches; saddle stitched
illiterature. issue two. features poetry by:
rob mclennan
Ashley-Elizabeth Best
Jesse Patrick Ferguson
Natalie King
Howie Good
Andrew Topel
Michael Nelson
Kevin Spenst
Sarah Richardson
James J. Stevenson
Darius Kinney
Derek Russel
Bob MacKenzie
Dustin Unger
Domenico Capilongo
&
Gary Barwin
illiterature. issue 1.
$5
32 pages
5.5 by 8.5 saddle-stitched
card stock cover
illiterature. issue 1. features poetry by Conor Barnes, Bruce Kauffman, Derek Beaulieu, Sarah Tsiang, Andrew Nurse, along with an interview with & poetry by Jason Heroux.
edited by Michael e. Casteels
32 pages
5.5 by 8.5 saddle-stitched
card stock cover
illiterature. issue 1. features poetry by Conor Barnes, Bruce Kauffman, Derek Beaulieu, Sarah Tsiang, Andrew Nurse, along with an interview with & poetry by Jason Heroux.
edited by Michael e. Casteels
The Robot Dreams-- Limited Stock!
By Michael e. Casteels
$25.00 - Only one copy left!
28 pages
5.5 by 8.5 Inches
Saddle Stitched Binding
A series of prose poems that read like fables or parables, that float out of the ordinary and into the surreal. Here's a brief taste:
The Aftermath
We’re backed up against a brick wall. The General, still seated on his white horse, demands the one responsible. My comrades remain silent, but their eyes shift in my direction. My breath hastens, I perspire. I notice a lemon, wobbling beside me. I point at the lemon and shout, “that pock-marked fiend instigated the riots!” The crowd erupts. They hurl stones at the lemon, scream profanities. A sickly young boy breaks through the rabble, and they cease. He falls to his knees, and holds the lemon in his trembling hands; pulp drips from his fingers. “Papa!” he cries, “Oh Papa, what have they done?” A gazelle glares at me from the gazebo. Fifty-two playing cards, scattered by wind.
$25.00 - Only one copy left!
28 pages
5.5 by 8.5 Inches
Saddle Stitched Binding
A series of prose poems that read like fables or parables, that float out of the ordinary and into the surreal. Here's a brief taste:
The Aftermath
We’re backed up against a brick wall. The General, still seated on his white horse, demands the one responsible. My comrades remain silent, but their eyes shift in my direction. My breath hastens, I perspire. I notice a lemon, wobbling beside me. I point at the lemon and shout, “that pock-marked fiend instigated the riots!” The crowd erupts. They hurl stones at the lemon, scream profanities. A sickly young boy breaks through the rabble, and they cease. He falls to his knees, and holds the lemon in his trembling hands; pulp drips from his fingers. “Papa!” he cries, “Oh Papa, what have they done?” A gazelle glares at me from the gazebo. Fifty-two playing cards, scattered by wind.
In Defence of the Attacked Center Pawn-- Limited Stock!
By Jason Heroux
$25.00-- Only one left!
28 Pages
5.5 by 8.5 inches; hand sewn binding
These 'pawn-sized' poems are filled with post-war restaurants, cobwebs and hospitals, garbage bags and lemonade stands. Come hop on the bus. With Jason Heroux at the driver's seat, it's bound to be a scenic ride.
You can listen to Jason reading from this chapbook on Finding a Voice on CFRC 101.9fm. Many thanks to Bruce Kauffman for the interview and for hosting the reading.
$25.00-- Only one left!
28 Pages
5.5 by 8.5 inches; hand sewn binding
These 'pawn-sized' poems are filled with post-war restaurants, cobwebs and hospitals, garbage bags and lemonade stands. Come hop on the bus. With Jason Heroux at the driver's seat, it's bound to be a scenic ride.
You can listen to Jason reading from this chapbook on Finding a Voice on CFRC 101.9fm. Many thanks to Bruce Kauffman for the interview and for hosting the reading.
Cave Paintings of the 21st Century-- Limited Stock
$25.00 -- Only 1 left!
48 pages
5.5 by 4.25 inches; hand-sewn binding
card stock cover
This book combines the various characters of punctuation to create 23 different animals of varying complexity & simplicity. Everything from bumble bees to elephants are featured. Check out Puddles of Sky Press on Facebook to see a few of the species.
48 pages
5.5 by 4.25 inches; hand-sewn binding
card stock cover
This book combines the various characters of punctuation to create 23 different animals of varying complexity & simplicity. Everything from bumble bees to elephants are featured. Check out Puddles of Sky Press on Facebook to see a few of the species.
sorrow is to row --OUT OF STOCK
By Michael e. Casteels
$20.00
4.25 by 5.5
A single typewritten poem with hand-stamped covers. After bpNichol.
see more photos HERE
$20.00
4.25 by 5.5
A single typewritten poem with hand-stamped covers. After bpNichol.
see more photos HERE
In This Light-- SOLD OUT
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By Guy Ewing
$10.00 28 pages 7 by 8.5 Saddle-Stitched Binding- Minimalist poetry bridging the themes of nature and city life. |
untitled (for Billy Mavreas) -- OUT OF STOCK
By derek beaulieu
$5
20 pages
5.5 by 8.5 inches, saddle-stitched binding
A series of eight visual poems by one of the Canada's best-known visual poets.
$5
20 pages
5.5 by 8.5 inches, saddle-stitched binding
A series of eight visual poems by one of the Canada's best-known visual poets.
Post Script, a book of afterthoughts OUT OF STOCK
By Michael e. Casteels
Poetry & Artwork
$20.00
5.5 by 8.5 saddle-stitched
While anchored in the everyday, these poems strive to peel back the layers of reality to show what is really going beneath the surface. The borders between the commonplace and the surreal are blurred and what comes to the surface are the sometimes haunting, sometime humorous images of the world that surrounds us, but we usually fail to notice.
The Dancer
Late into the night she glides
across the black floor.
The mirror, a window to an empty street.
A yellow leaf stirred by the breeze.
High above, in the great
silence of autumn,
a constellation scrolls across the sky.
One of the stars, snuffed out years ago.
Poem for Kingston
Welcome to this quiet afternoon
the frozen lake
a single leaf clinging, the shuffle of boots
the slow falling snow.
The bell tower tolls
it’s four o’clock.
In the park the statues groan
and shift their weight to the opposite foot.
Poetry & Artwork
$20.00
5.5 by 8.5 saddle-stitched
While anchored in the everyday, these poems strive to peel back the layers of reality to show what is really going beneath the surface. The borders between the commonplace and the surreal are blurred and what comes to the surface are the sometimes haunting, sometime humorous images of the world that surrounds us, but we usually fail to notice.
The Dancer
Late into the night she glides
across the black floor.
The mirror, a window to an empty street.
A yellow leaf stirred by the breeze.
High above, in the great
silence of autumn,
a constellation scrolls across the sky.
One of the stars, snuffed out years ago.
Poem for Kingston
Welcome to this quiet afternoon
the frozen lake
a single leaf clinging, the shuffle of boots
the slow falling snow.
The bell tower tolls
it’s four o’clock.
In the park the statues groan
and shift their weight to the opposite foot.
Greetings, Human. Hello, Traveler. -- OUT OF STOCK
Collaborative Poetry By Nicholas Papaxanthos & Michael e. Casteels
$5.00
8 pages
5.5 by 8.5 saddle-stitched
Cut up Poems, Collage, Collaborative Centos and List Poems.
$5.00
8 pages
5.5 by 8.5 saddle-stitched
Cut up Poems, Collage, Collaborative Centos and List Poems.
The Rain Wet Concrete haiku-induced poetry-- OUT OF STOCK
By Michael e. Casteels
Traditional and Non-Traditional haiku, haiku-inspired concrete and visual poetry.
$15
Traditional and Non-Traditional haiku, haiku-inspired concrete and visual poetry.
$15
Run on sentence, run on!
Out of Stock
By Michael e. Casteels
48 pages
$5
life with a dog
I am the one who stops
to smell the flowers
my dog is the one who stops
to smell other dogs pee
on the flowers
I am smelling
every evening
the windows
are the sun
setting behind them
the sky,
a vial of dark ink
spilling onto a tablecloth
a man kneels
at a park bench
his hands busy
an empty bag,
a needle,
a lighter and a spoon
the statue
looks and listens
his lips are sealed
every evening
the lamppost
has a brilliant idea
By Michael e. Casteels
48 pages
$5
life with a dog
I am the one who stops
to smell the flowers
my dog is the one who stops
to smell other dogs pee
on the flowers
I am smelling
every evening
the windows
are the sun
setting behind them
the sky,
a vial of dark ink
spilling onto a tablecloth
a man kneels
at a park bench
his hands busy
an empty bag,
a needle,
a lighter and a spoon
the statue
looks and listens
his lips are sealed
every evening
the lamppost
has a brilliant idea