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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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kristy bowen | writer & book artist @kristybowen.bsky.social · 14h

#31daysofhalloween

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...

kristy bowen | writer & book artist @kristybowen.bsky.social · 1d

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.)

kristy bowen | writer & book artist @kristybowen.bsky.social · 1d

#31daysofHalloween
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...

kristy bowen | writer & book artist @kristybowen.bsky.social · 3d

#31daysofhalloween

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...

kristy bowen | writer & book artist @kristybowen.bsky.social · 3d

#31daysofhalloween
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...

kristy bowen | writer & book artist @kristybowen.bsky.social · 4d

#31daysofhalloween
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...

kristy bowen | writer & book artist @kristybowen.bsky.social · 5d

kristy bowen | writer & book artist @kristybowen.bsky.social · 7d

#31daysofhalloween

DAY 5

some fun cryptid zines from a few years back...

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kristy bowen | writer & book artist @kristybowen.bsky.social · 7d

They're a little wrinkly just outta the box, but they're HERE! Word witch totes...

find them :
dulcetshop.myshopify.com/products/wor...

kristy bowen | writer & book artist @kristybowen.bsky.social · 7d

kristy bowen | writer & book artist @kristybowen.bsky.social · 8d

#31daysofhalloween
DAy 4:
from THE WOODS series...

read the free e-zine HERE:
heyzine.com/flip-book/84...

kristy bowen | writer & book artist @kristybowen.bsky.social · 8d

The latest book bundle shipping soon includes a premium Patreon print edition of EXOTICA, postcards, and a new art print...you can still join the $13/month tier to get in on the action... patreon.com/kristybowen

kristy bowen | writer & book artist @kristybowen.bsky.social · 8d

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kristy bowen | writer & book artist @kristybowen.bsky.social · 8d

#31daysofhalloween

DAY 3

dark country
Kristy Bowen
(dancing girl press & studio, 2021)

116 pages.

order a signed copy here:

dulcetshop.myshopify.com/products/dar...

kristy bowen | writer & book artist @kristybowen.bsky.social · 9d

#31daysofhalloween

DAY 2

A video poem from MEMOIR IN BONE & INK...

kristy bowen | writer & book artist @kristybowen.bsky.social · 10d

#31daysofhalloween

DAY 1

Halloween Postcards, circa 2020

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kristy bowen | writer & book artist @kristybowen.bsky.social · 10d

kristy bowen | writer & book artist @kristybowen.bsky.social · 11d

this little sideshow September zine with poems and fauxtographs has dropped into the world...am hoping to create more free monthly zines again more regularly...

this one you can find here:
heyzine.com/flip-book/3e...

Online Flipbook

Created with the Heyzine flipbook maker

heyzine.com

kristy bowen | writer & book artist @kristybowen.bsky.social · 12d

Sneak peek of this month's Patreon perk...a deluxe print edition of EXOTICA..
patreon.com/kristybowen

kristy bowen | writer & book artist @kristybowen.bsky.social · 14d

#collage #digitalcollage

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kristy bowen | writer & book artist @kristybowen.bsky.social · 14d

I have been working on creating Amazon editions of my more recent titles...which are a little trickier to firm at than for my usual printer but so far so good as long as they don't have internal artwork that needs to reformatted...

You can find them here:
www.amazon.com/stores/Krist...