NORMAN KITZMILLER PUBLICATIONS • MEDIA RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: JUNE 27, 2026

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HEADLINE: DAVID KITZMILLER UNVEILS "POEMS FROM THE TOASTER: VOLUME III"—THE UNCURATED "LIMBO BOOK" SHIFTING THE ARCHITECTURE OF VISUAL POETRY

DATELINE: INDIANAPOLIS, IN — JUNE 27, 2026 — Independent imprint Norman Kitzmiller Publications has officially announced the global street release of Poems from the Toaster: Volume III, the darkest and most conceptually distinct installment yet in David Kitzmiller's award-winning visual verse series. Comprising 113 pages of highly immersive fine-art poetry, the collection represents a startling narrative departure for the multi-medium Toaster Universe portfolio, turning the creative lens fully inward to examine the isolated self without the presence of an outside muse.

THE LANDSCAPE OF ACTIVE RECONSTRUCTION

Kitzmiller’s previous collections were anchored by an external romantic relationship or a specific emotional wreckage to write through. Volume III strips away the other person entirely, spending its pages discovering exactly what remains when the equation is restricted to the self. Written as a definitive "limbo book" from the deep interior of active therapy and ongoing emotional reconstruction, these pieces refuse to resolve cleanly because the life they emerged from is still actively being processed.

As with previous volumes, each poem sits against its own striking visual backdrop—marrying bold typographic design, stark photography, and custom illustration to turn every page into an independent, multi-sensory asset. The collection moves without apology, placing deeply confessional pieces about isolation directly beside surrealist fever dreams. The trademark dark midwestern humor that runs through Kitzmiller’s work surfaces here with sharp precision, introducing absurd scenarios where a toaster becomes a therapist and a washing machine becomes a tool for a eulogy.

CATCHING THE CROSS-MEDIA ECHOES

Poems from the Toaster: Volume III serves as a major narrative intersection, functioning as an uncurated live broadcast that directly pairs with Kitzmiller's parallel creative channels. Most notably, a brilliant, atmospheric piece capturing white noise and fading summer titled “Between the Stations” serves as the direct spiritual core, thematic foundation, and namesake for his recently released debut novel, Nameless Cowfish: The Years Between the Stations.

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