Some Highlights from August 2026.

This year I think I’m going to try to make art that will work as static pieces that can be put in zine form but also be looped into a short animation. I’ve been inspired by the work of some paper cut out artists, printmakers, and public domain images of snowflakes and fireworks these French floor tile patterns from the 1940s.

Here is the animation for August 2026. Art made using a grid I put together in Inkscape. GIF made by putting together the finished images together using ezgif. A zine of the animation elements can be printed out for free here. Buy it on stuff in my Redbubble store

The abstract series I’ve been doing every month are called sketchbook because they started out in sketchbooks. So this year I am going to work in a sketchbook again. Check out the August 2026 Series and print out a free zine of the art.

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 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 KatherineMontalto@protonmail.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, You can keep the quarters. Alternatively, I’d like for my tiny zines to go wherever they are invited. Into other capsule machines, candy dishes, little free libraries, or whatever other creative vessels people can dream up. Print out tiny zines for free here or send me an email, KatherineMontalto@protonmail.com, and I will mail you an envelope full of tiny zines ready to go.

The Haiku Machine is currently doing a summer residency at Flourish Books and Plants (17649 US 12) in New Buffalo, Michigan.

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. It’s also available at the Ferndale Public Library  It’s coded 895.61 in the poetry section. Currently it is on the “New Non-Fiction” shelf at the front of the library. Check it out! It is at the Hazel Public Library! It’s coded 895.61 in poetry. It’s on the new books shelf at the front of the library right now. Check it out now!

Starting last 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. Read all the 2026 poetry here.

The poem I wrote this month is called, My Father’s Name is not Katherine Montalto. It’s about the arbitrary origins of family names and the patriarchal structures that uphold them. 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 Summer here in the northern hemisphere so Get my art on Tank Tops in my redbubble store.

Here are my newest Redbubble designs:
Purple Grid
Purple grid with star
2026 08 sketchbook 05
2026 08 sketchbook 06

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

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