well hello there

welcome! you can find links to download the PDF book layouts and/or listen to the audiobook versions of all 7 of my poetry collections here! they might be considered poetry projects as well. all are FREE!

if you like or dislike strange noise and found sounds then you will really like or dislike my audiobooks. i like (but do not dislike) concocting my own soundscapes alongside my wordscapes.

i really, really hope that something catches your ear or eye in the best possible way here.

thank you for taking a look or listen,
k weber

A SUM OF OUR POETIC PARTS: VOLUME 1 (2022)

A SUM OF OUR POETIC PARTS: VOLUME 1 is my latest collaborative poetry project! This collection features 19 poems that incorporate 226 words donated by over 100 people! These donated words poems were written between April 2018 and February 2022 but were not featured in TEAMWORDK or THIS ASSEMBLY. This project was self-published in June 2022.

– PDF book layout
– Download MP3 directly

TEAMWORDK (2021)

TEAMWORDK is another collaborative poetry project I created! This collection features 62 contributors. I wrote 8 new poems using 59 donated words (and more)! TEAMWORDK also features one poem that contains 60 donated words. This project was self-published in August 2021.

– PDF book layout
– Download MP3 directly

I am so grateful to have been doing various donated words projects and collaborative poetry since 2018. This document includes quotes and blurbs from participants about their experiences with these poems!

– Donated Words Poems & Projects – Quotes from Participants

THIS ASSEMBLY (2019)

THIS ASSEMBLY is a collaborative poetry project. I wrote 21 poems using 160 words donated by 160 people. Additionally, there are bonus poems featuring other poets’ writing, unique additions to poems, poets reading their work in the audio, and more! Project was reviewed by a team of readers. Cover and interior art by Greg Lawhun incorporated color palette that won a poll open to the public. In total, 165 people participated in my latest effort!

– PDF book layout
– Download MP3 directly

cling as ink (2018)

August 30, 2018, found me unveiling this 20th anniversary project!

cling as ink includes 45 poems by me that each use a title corresponding to poetry, short fiction, and visual art from the 1997-1998 issue of my college literary magazine, Inklings. This particular volume was published when I was the editor. My poems are next to my writings about the original works that had the title I used as well as the authors and artists behind them. There is a fair amount of reflection on my time on the staff of Inklings and at Miami University.

This is a large body of work. You can download the audiobook for free. A carefully-created downloadable PDF contains the visual book layout (also free!).

– PDF book layout
– Download MP3 directly

i should have changed that stupid lock (2014)

This one’s a bit bleak in places, but I am always thankful when I can write for therapy and posterity.

I don’t even know what more to say about i should have changed that stupid lock because it really howls and cries out for itself. It’s not overly dramatic – much of it was written from a deep pit of feeling still stirring, raw, in a very numb place.

Download:
– PDF book layout
– Download MP3 directly

bluest grey (2012)

It took 9 years for me to put together a follow-up to midwestern skirt. I decided at the time, with all the technology pulsing around me, to approach my collection as a digital project. I was able to incorporate more poems, dabble in music, have my poems heard by my own voice, and countless other multimedia opportunities.

I had a lot of fun writing these poems and finding a new way for readers to access and enjoy them.

View and/or listen to bluest grey online…
– PDF book layout
– Download MP3 directly

midwestern skirt (2003)

For the first time, midwestern skirt is available digitally. Enjoy these poems in both the downloadable PDF book format and the MP3 audiobook!

This was my first collection of poems and was originally presented in a small run of print copies I collated on my floor. Small but mighty, these 18 poems mostly encompass a year off the rails with a foot still in nature, a heart trapped in hard lessons, and a brain trying to find balance.

This is the only poetry compilation of mine that does not feature any sort of music or sounds in the audiobook. As this book was very bare bones at the time, I wanted to keep the audiobook a bit scant.

As with all my online book project pieces: enjoy midwestern skirt entirely free:
– PDF book layout
– Download MP3 directly