Garbage City Poems

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About Garbage City Poems

Garbage City Poems is a cramped and hidden mental cavity. Angsty, youthful quips directed at a maestro of heart-centered fowl play. It is a mastery of individual growth; loss of power, the realization that restoration of said power is necessary. A stunning debut chapbook.

"I’ll leave the book on your dresser. 

Slide this poem under your door. 

I’ll never hear from you again 

but for now, you go home to your woman. 

I go home to my pen."

The Blooming Series

The 2025 goal for TW is the nourishing of our roots: hand-bound chapbooks. With our new, runic colophon as a compass, we wish to embrace the natural world, channel the sublime beauty of classical art, develop three debut poets into world-class authors, and craft the most artisanal chapbooks in our catalog. This is The Blooming Series.

38 pgs, 5.0” x 7.0”

Cover design by Josh Dale

Edited by Josh Dale

Jacket Artwork: The Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum (1822) a painting by John Martin

Released on 5-9-25

For international orders greater than 2 units: please email us before ordering so we can calculate shipping, thanks!

Edition Information

Standard edition comes in a crisp, perfect-bound glue binding. For bookshelves.

Budget edition comes in a hand-folded, saddle-stitch staple binding. For trading.

Limited edition comes in a nuanced, hemp cord binding of 20 copies. For special collections.

About Garbage City Poems

Garbage City Poems is a cramped and hidden mental cavity. Angsty, youthful quips directed at a maestro of heart-centered fowl play. It is a mastery of individual growth; loss of power, the realization that restoration of said power is necessary. A stunning debut chapbook.

"I’ll leave the book on your dresser. 

Slide this poem under your door. 

I’ll never hear from you again 

but for now, you go home to your woman. 

I go home to my pen."

The Blooming Series

The 2025 goal for TW is the nourishing of our roots: hand-bound chapbooks. With our new, runic colophon as a compass, we wish to embrace the natural world, channel the sublime beauty of classical art, develop three debut poets into world-class authors, and craft the most artisanal chapbooks in our catalog. This is The Blooming Series.

38 pgs, 5.0” x 7.0”

Cover design by Josh Dale

Edited by Josh Dale

Jacket Artwork: The Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum (1822) a painting by John Martin

Released on 5-9-25

For international orders greater than 2 units: please email us before ordering so we can calculate shipping, thanks!

Edition Information

Standard edition comes in a crisp, perfect-bound glue binding. For bookshelves.

Budget edition comes in a hand-folded, saddle-stitch staple binding. For trading.

Limited edition comes in a nuanced, hemp cord binding of 20 copies. For special collections.

About the Author

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Rayni K. Wekluk is the author of the debut chapbook, Garbage City Poems (Thirty West Publishing, 2025.) Her poetry and nonfiction is published in Folio, The Linden Review, Collision, 13th Floor Magazine, The Oakland Arts Review, & more. Primarily a poet, Wekluk will graduate in Fall 2025 with a BFA in Creative Writing (Poetry) and a BA in English (CNF) from The University of Nebraska Omaha. She holds the honor of having served as a manuscript reviewer for the Ex Ophidia Press 2024 Richard Gabriel Rummonds Poetry Contest. Wekluk explores the human condition through a strong feminine lens within her work & hopes to publish a full-length collection of poetry in the coming years.

Reviews

“Bruising and tender, inventive and controlled, Rayni Wekluk’s Garbage City Poems is an intimate debut, illuminating decay and relief. A moment of this is in 'You Were Right to Call Me Kid' where she writes, 'violence throttles my inner child, / She’s the smallest of the Russian dolls I house'. Each poem is in relentless pursuit to capture this thorned beauty, which will remain with readers long after their walk through her world.”

—Luke Koesters, writer and poetry editor of 13th Floor

“Rayni Wekluk’s debut is at mile marker ‘1’. Garbage City Poems personifies angst, lust, melancholy, and enlightenment at every intersection. Poetry as roadside daffodils. Don’t litter in this city or you’ll end up in the yellow pages.”

 —Josh Dale, publisher and author of Duality Lies Beneath