Poetry Chapbooks
1994 "Blessings of Madness" (26 Books)
1995 "Jane's Bonnets" (Craftsmen Printers)
2002 "Kiss of the Apocalypse" (Unimpressed Press)
2003 "Cannonball Buttcrack" (Unimpressed Press)
2004 "Not Afraid of Freud" (Unimpressed Press)

Poetry Readings (among several hundred others)
	1988, 1994 - Portland Poetry Festival
	1989 - Artquake
	2002 - Seattle Poetry Festival
	2003 - Mt. Writers Series

Poems published in many Portland and other West Coast based publications including: 
NRG, Takeout, Plazm, tight, Adragtul, Portland Lights, Stanza, The Temple,
Pacific Northwest Spiritual Poetry, and Fireweed, among others.  

Review of Pacific NW Spiritual Poetry in the Bloomsbury Review (7-8/99): "Casey Bush's 
"Kiss of the Apocalypse" makes no use of open space, but is set up in a single 25-line block, 
largely devoid of caps and punctuation.  Part of the "art" here is to repudiate what some poets 
would call "line integrity", to explode the line by way of forced enjambment, which strands 
function words like articles and conjunctions at the end of the line…Question: Do the apocalyptic 
context and lashing out against materialism make this a "spiritual" poem.  Answer: There is
nothing especially spiritual about rant."

Described as "A pyromaniac in an asbestos world.  An anarchist employed as a bureaucrat.
"Casey Bush is also the author of chess biography "Grandmaster from Oregon: The Life and Times
of Arthur Dake" (1991, Portland Chess Press).

POEMS:
CANNONBALL BUTTCRACK
DAMN TRICKY SOCRATIC METHOD
URANIUM CRANIUM

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