Some Highlights from October 2025.

I will be making a zine of vegetable art each month this year. Here is the vegetable artwork for October, pumpkin and the vegetable art zine for October.

This year I’m working on a series of digital paintings made in Inkscape of abstract grids of multi-color squares. Check out the October 2025 paintings and print out a free zine of the series.

Over the last few years I wrote poetry based prompts posted on mastodon by a community of writers who share haiku prompts everyday. Read the haiku here. I just finished putting together a book collection of this poetry, Minor Transient Documents of Everyday Life, three line recipes, short stories, jokes, riddles, science projects, love notes, horrors, confessions, and memories. buy it here through blurb. If you are interested in selling this book in your book store on consignment, please email me at info@katherinemontalto.com.

I’m too much of an introvert to go on a book tour so I’m sending this Haiku Machine out into the world for me. It’s like that Zoltar thing from the movie Big, only instead of granting wishes it just dispenses haiku that gives you a little insight into my strange mind. And a piece of candy for your trouble. If you’ve got a space that can host a residency in Metro Detroit, drop me a line, I’ll split the quarters with you.

The Haiku Machine is doing a residency at Kitty Deluxe (22202 Harper Ave, St. Clair Shores, Michigan 48080) now though the holiday season.

My book, Minor Transient Documents of Everyday Life is available at the Warren Public Library, which means, if you have a library card in the suburbs of metro Detroit, you can check out through the inter-library loan system! Check it out now! It’s coded 811 M in the poetry section of the Arthur J. Miller Branch Library.

This year I thought I might experiment with form, but it turns out, all I’ve written are non-rhyming sonnets. 14 lines, 10 syllables each. 3 Quatrains then end with a couplet. The poem I wrote this month is called Ghosts in the Grey Matter. Print out a free zine of it here.

Zine libraries are welcome to print out my zines and put them in their collections. Please contact me to let me know.

It’s autumn here in the northern hemisphere so Get my art on sweet shirts and hoodies in my redbubble store.

Here are my newest Redbubble designs:

2025 10 sketchbook 01
https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/174791360

2025 10 sketchbook 02
https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/174791513

2025 10 sketchbook 03
https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/174791648

2025 10 sketchbook 04
https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/174791835

2025 10 sketchbook 05
https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/174791991

2025 10 sketchbook 06
https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/174792110

You can also find my art on stuff in my TeePublic store.

Subscription Package

Here is the subscription box for October 2025.

If you’d like to support me on a continuous regular basis you can set up a monthly donation to my art supply fund. There are levels of regular donation you can contribute, everything over a dollar comes with rewards. If you’d like to make a one-time contribution go to PayPal, Ko-fi LiberaPay, Amazon Wishlist

All of my original artwork, writing, and music are available for purchase and for licensing. I am available for other creative services as well. See them here. If interested please contact me here.