Kristy Bowen
A writer & book artist, Kristy Bowen lives in Chicago, where she creates a variety of hybrid works and experiments that enfold text, collage, printmaking, painting, zines, installation, performance, film, and more. She is the author of numerous books, chapbooks, zines, and artists books, including CLOVEN, an upcoming collection of poems and collages centered around the Greek figure of Iphigenia. For the past two decades, she’s blogged about writing, art, horror films, thrifting, and other miscellany at DULCETLY: NOTES ON A BOOKISH LIFE. She also runs DANCING GIRL PRESS & STUDIO, where she makes and sells all manner of art, books, paper goods and accessories. Raised in the wilds of northern Illinois, she inhabits a beautiful, but drafty, art deco building near the lake with her cats, her husband, too many books, and a vast collection of thrifted finds–only some of which are haunted.
Poetry by Kristy Bowen
Hazards Continue reading
It’s a vocabulary of old country
songs, unfaithful women
and open roads, a scratchy
vinyl itching in her thighs.
This fear of swimming pools
and gas station bathrooms.
house of strays Continue reading
This tiny thing breathing between us that aches something awful.
By summer, I am slipping all the complimentary mints in my coat pockets
while you pay the check. Gripping the railings on bridges to keep
diving over. Some dark dog in my throat when I say hello.