Zillennial Panic is a collection of poetry spanning the author and illustrator’s life from ages ten to twenty-four. Verse and illustration are woven together into a surreal autobiography, each contextualized by the author.
Organized chronologically into four broad movements, each page – rhyme, free verse, un-interpreted dreams, and vivid drawings – become a bizarre coming of age story.
The title describes a feeling of entrapment between generations, entangled in invisible boundaries. It is a lyrical attempt to capture the human experience – loneliness, trauma, the doom of the future – yet always clinging to hope and to creation in the storm.
Zillennial Panic
The Dreams and Ramblings of An Artistic Failure
K. Weary is an author, illustrator, and poet.
“It is a distinctly human instinct to fling our words into the void, to beg for connection in a time when it has been all but stripped from us. We all have the capacity for art, but some of us need it. And as a queer, neurodivergent, Midwestern American teacher in late stage capitalism…I need it.”