C. Kubasta
A poet, fiction writer, & occasional reviewer, Kubasta lives & writes in the Driftless area of Wisconsin.
@CKubastaThePoet
Under the Tented Skin
Forthcoming May 2025
The poems in Under the Tented Skin explore the experiences of women & girls through folkloric history, discursive memory, and spectacle. Visiting and re-visiting situations all-too-common, Kubasta asks the reader to inhabit close quarters, from early socialization of girls to rural teenagerhood, to adult womanhood and its traps. She warns “I don’t throw the skins away / and I’ve been known to gnaw a bone.”
from Unsolicited Press
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A Wisconsin native, C. Kubasta experiments with hybrid forms, excerpted text, and shifting voices –her poetry has been called claustrophobic and unflinching. Her characters are complex, flawed, and she loves them all.
Her next poetry book is Under the Tented Skin, is forthcoming from Unsolicted Press in 2025. Her previous poetry books include the chapbooks, A Lovely Box and &s (both from Finishing Line); the full-length collection All Beautiful & Useless (BlazeVOX [books], 2015), and Of Covenants (Whitepoint Press, 2017).
Her fiction includes the short story collection Abjectification (Apprentice House, 2022), the novella Girling (Brain Mill Press, 2017) and This Business of the Flesh (Apprentice House, 2018), all of which explore the stories of girls and women growing up in small towns.
She is the Executive Director at Shake Rag Alley Center for the Arts, Vice President of the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets, and serves as Assistant Poetry editor at Brain Mill Press.
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