mythic zine (issue #1)

the hymns for all ends sound the same.

It’s my 29th birthday! Enjoy a small gift from me to you.

I’ve spent a good while now telling myself I am going to create a zine for my poetry. I keep putting it off because I want it to be perfectly curated and created (despite being terrible at graphic design and other artistic mediums). I finally said fuck that and decided to just make something without worrying about whether it’s perfect or amazing or even good. So I opened up Canva, played around a little bit, and created a mid-to-low average but acceptable eight-page PDF for your enjoyment! I know, I’m really selling it here, but I feel like I need to really emphasize that I did my best and that is enough.

It turned out a little bit different than I originally planned. For one, instead of featuring full-length poems, I wanted to keep it short and sweet with snippets from my poetry that I’m really proud of. To me, this zine is just a sampler of my writing (which is all readily and freely available on my substack). Two, as far as art, I can’t create anything visually stimulating like so many other people seem able to do, so all of the art I used used is Open Access from The Art Institute of Chicago.

You can download the PDF on my ko-fi (default price is free) if you’re a physical zine person or you can just enjoy it here as is.

Poems featured:

medea (poem)

bloodsongs (poem)

iphigenia at the altar (poem)

fatale (poem)

bloodletting (poem)

wolf song (poem)

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violent ends is a completely free publication! the best thing you can do to support my work is to share it with others and interact with it. if you want to go the extra mile, you can also use my link to buy me a coffee.