Caketrain
"Nursing gelatinous language monsters since 2003."

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28 years old
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
United States



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HeroesOur contributors and readers, of course. It sounds cheesy, yeah, and it kind of is, but it's true.

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Status:Single
Here for:Serious Relationships
Body type:0' 0"
Zodiac Sign:Capricorn



Caketrain makes books.

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2007 Chapbook Competiton Results  (view more)

Five Arrives  (view more)

Issue 05 now up for pre-order  (view more)

Grayson on Whalen  (view more)

Dolls Now Available  (view more)

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New Titles (buy some and help us keep the train running!):

afterpastures, by Claire Hero

afterpastures
Poems by Claire Hero

Released May 2008

"These strange, moving, passionate, and crystalline poems form a fable where the animal world, under our mesmerized gaze, becomes the mirror it always was." --Mary Jo Bang

$8.00 US


Caketrain Issue 05

Caketrain Issue 05

Released November 2007

Now bigger and with more gunbirds! New work from Alan DeNiro, Lisa Jarnot, Blake Butler, Angela Woodward, many more

$8.00 US


Dolls, by Tom Whalen

Dolls
Prose Poems by Tom Whalen

Released April 2007

"Tom Whalen is a virtuoso of personification (the sacred purview of the prose poet) and a sadist of playthings. Dolls is an entrancing and playfully disquieting collection." -- Peter Conners

$8.00 US


See more at the store...

Caketrain (primarily located at www.caketrain.org) is a literary journal and press based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Our interest is in bringing you, reader, the very best in contemporary creative writing, full stop. Our goals are for each issue of our journal to submerge you in a birthing tank for young masses of tentacular foci undulating as directed (in all, at once) by our eclectic stable of contributors; for each new book we publish to seduce and ensnare you, sometimes intangibly, always undeniably; and for you, reader, to be able to draw at least one passage from our banks that prods your mind with such precision and power that it feels as if it was written for your eyes alone.


Who I'd like to meet:
Everybody, by all means, come and say hello.

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Savannah Schroll Guz





Apr 10 2008 4:55 AM

The cover is amazing--so strangely beautiful. Can't wait to read the stories inside....
Brooklyn the Benny





Jan 27 2008 10:35 AM

So, thanks for finding me! :-)
William Walsh





Jan 16 2008 8:40 AM

Hey, Caketrain. Just stopping by to direct your attention to “Potato I Have” at ELIMAE. It’s a derived text that tracks Joyce’s use of the potato - a talisman for Bloom - in Ulysses.
girlie pains





Jul 24 2007 8:38 PM

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William Walsh





Jan 2 2008 7:24 AM

Read “Gate. Safe!” at Admit Two.
FUTURE TENSE BOOKS





Dec 14 2007 11:43 PM

That new Caketrain is hot stuff!
Derek





Nov 30 2007 9:22 PM

The latest issue is simply spectacular. Thank you.
Audio Page Heather Fowler





Nov 21 2007 6:55 PM

Well, hello, Caketrain! :)

Thanks for the friendship.

Warmest,
H
Robert





Nov 17 2007 9:10 AM

Congratulations on the new issue!
de Vie





Nov 13 2007 6:31 AM

_________ i am one with this sensation ____________
claire





Nov 4 2007 7:26 AM

SOS: Caliban is officially sold out of all Caketrain books!
Alan





Nov 3 2007 10:11 PM

thanks for the add!
Shawn Sturgeon





Nov 2 2007 7:57 AM

Thanks, Caketrain!
Paul Elwork





Oct 30 2007 6:37 PM

Fill with mingled cream and amber,
I will drain that glass again.
Such hilarious visions clamber
Through the chamber of my brain —
Quaintest thoughts — queerest fancies
Come to life and fade away;
What care I how time advances?
I am drinking ale today.
-attributed to Edgar Allan Poe

Here's to clambering visions, and happy Halloween!
Teresa





Oct 14 2007 8:29 AM

I love the new cover.
Blake





Oct 13 2007 2:43 PM

lookin bitchin. can't wait to see this fat five.
William Walsh





Oct 5 2007 11:42 AM

Heckuva Question at J. Robert Lennon’s LitLab
Lorelei Loveridge





Sep 26 2007 1:54 AM

Hooray to all writers and publishers of all kinds everywhere. It colors up our world and blows away reality TV. xo
claire





Sep 24 2007 1:06 PM

Caketrain! I saw you in Poets & Writers, too. Warm fuzz inducing. Two other things: 1) I'm excited to read #5, AND, perhaps more importantly, have you visited this link: http://www.myspace.com/caketrain . . . ? Whoa! Get ready to bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce.
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Sep 14 2007 11:03 PM

thanks for the add. I appreciate it. I want to board your Caketrain and read your instructional labels. That sounded more sensual than I wanted it to.
William Walsh





Aug 29 2007 7:20 AM

Congrats on the coverage in this issue of Poets & Writers. You guys are players!
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Sep 2 2007 7:57 AM

Caketrain is powerful...and delicious!
paulina





Aug 17 2007 11:27 AM

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EllaRegina





Aug 9 2007 10:17 PM

Thank you very much for the add!

xoxo

ER
Kemal





Jul 16 2007 2:46 PM

Thanxs Caketrain
Amelia Gray





Jul 15 2007 8:19 PM

Hi Caketrain! You are on the top twenty of my heart.
The Species Crown





Jul 14 2007 6:00 AM

Hello Caketrainers -- I would love to climb aboard sometime. Much Pennsylvania love to you and yours.
Elizabeth Harper, Chicago Poet





Jul 12 2007 12:37 AM

Hey, I loved Dolls by Tom Whalen. It was a very happy purchase. Thanks for finding me. Thanks for the add. For someone who is interested in dolls and prose poetry the book is perfect. I have a poem in my blog on MySpace called "If I Didn't Have Dollies." Rock on with your bad dolly poetry self. Elizabeth Harper
Dave Clapper





Jul 10 2007 12:20 PM

Thanks for the birthday wishes!
Paul Lisicky


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Jul 10 2007 4:48 AM

Hey Caketrain,

Thank you for finding me. I'm looking forward to getting to know yr press & journal.

Take care,
Paul
Eckhard Gerdes





Jul 1 2007 3:22 PM

Thanks for the add. Your press looks very cool. I'll make sure to check you out. Best wishes!
a-n-d-r-e-a





Jul 1 2007 1:58 PM

Thanks for wishing me happy birthday, Caketrain!
William Walsh





Jun 12 2007 12:39 PM