Poetry
August’s poetry ranges from lyric to beat, love to hate, humor to heartbreak through deeply personal, witty imagery.
More of his work can be found on Instagram.
Online Publications
The Creative Process
Lothlorien Poetry Journal
The Vagabond’s Verse (Film)
Hare‘s Paw Literary Journal
Readings
Freedom
The Smoker’s Kama Sutra
Frostbitten Friend
Only Lonely Golems
WREATHED: Full Show
THE SMOKER’S KAMA SUTRA
The Smoker's Kama Sutra is an inventive book that fuses poetry and song to explore a loose narrative of surrealist travelogues. The Sutra charts the dreamlike route of a young rambler through natal docks, absurd circuses, seedy city underbellies, soul-searing Wild West encounters to finally rest in the promised land of Los Angeles. It uses wild imagery and rhythm to dissect personal growth, spiritual reckoning and the weight of the self. The Smoker’s Kama Sutra bounces between psychedelia, sleaze and sacrament; painting a sensory voyage across an abstract, stylized version of modern America. Combining music, storytelling and formal poetry, The Smoker’s Kama Sutra is a one-of-one reading experience to be remembered.
REVIEWS:
“I had a blast like a flea riding the back of Noah's dove, soaring through this odyssey of spiritual movement, psychological unraveling, mythic proportions… a skillful, unforgettable fever-dream of a collection.” - Reagan Sova (Author, Wildcat Dreams in the Death Light)
“Well-made, musical, full of imagery, heart-felt lyric poetry that sets [Gladstone] apart from other artists.” - Larry Beckett (Author, Song to the Siren)
IVY
August Gladstone’s poetry manuscript IVY is a journey through a tempestuous love affair. Forty poems are broken into four seasons, each season offering shifts in tone and style as Gladstone details the peaks and valleys of young love. From distant infatuation to fiery passion to vacuous defeat, he fuses weight, wit, pain and charm into uniquely voiced lyrical poetry. Ivy is an inventive romance where tender moments are held under a microscope birthing descriptive songs of truth – alive in personal, piercing elation.
REVIEWS:
“There's music throughout, and it reminds me, many of the poems, of Jim Morrison's work with The Doors, and his poetry. There's such romance here, and wit and wisdom. Took me to Neruda and Whitman... Ivy is a good analogy for the emotional growth and struggle overtly and covertly expressed in the poems.” (John McCaffrey - Author & Writing Professor)
“They all took me to a place or a memory. They all felt relatable in one way or another. I enjoyed each and every one.“ (Angelique Ortiz - 3 Arts Entertainment)