Castagraf was an online poetry magazine that ran for six issues back in roughly 2000-2003. At some point I forgot to renew the domain name and some domain squatting bastard swiped it. Said bastard still controls castagraf.com (grrr), but I managed to get .net back and decided, because much of what we published was frankly, awesome, to put the old issues back online.
Without further ado, here are the old issues of Castagraf:
A few things to keep in mind: we were, at the time, quite enamored with Flash, which ironically, now drives us crazy. So yes, all the issues are Flash movies. Sorry, that's how it was. Back in those days CSS 2 was just getting off the ground and browsers largely sucked. We were prefectionists about layout and typography issues so we used Flash. A thousand apologies.
Castagraf was founded by me, the editorish person as I chose to call myself at the time, but would never have been possible without Laura Solomon, who served as editor and put in the endless, and largely thankless, effort of tracking down the poems and stories so see here.
I like the writing, where can I find more by these authors?
Many of the authors published in castagraf were at the time otherwise unpublished. We're very happy to say that many of them have since put out some excellent books and albums. Try plugging their names into Amazon or Google and, in most cases, you'll find links to their books. Sadly, so far as we know, one of our favorite bits, The Whalebone Essays, which span four issues of Castagraf, have never been gathered up and published separately.
Why did you stop?
Quite frankly because Castagraf stopped being fun and became a whole lot of work. And then, just when we had decided we couldn't keep going, the bastard mentioned above snatched up the domain name, and, well, that pretty much put an end to it.
Are you going to bring it back?
No. Castagraf was what it was and we're proud of it, but it will remain in the past tense