Available at the Feminist Center for Creative Work and Everywhere Shop !
“I Cut My Nails For You, again, proves that women invented poetry. KD Sims’ debut collection smears Persephonic perversity with buoyant, babyish puppy play, settling like honey at the bottom of the teacup. Her poems drip Call Me By Your Name levels of nectar, but her directives are dry as the family bone I keep in a jar. If you’ve ever wondered what Schiele’s painted women might be whispering to each other, this book is for you. Sims is a triple sexed Edna St. Vincent Millay, the cool Carrara marble of Patricia Cronin’s Memorial to a Marriage. She writes tight words for loose girls. Let yourself be gayly pollinated. Get your mind topped by the velveteen. Cut your nails and use this book to masturbate. Hell, enjoy something! KD Sims sure is.”
—L Scully
“KD Sims’ poems move from the mouth downward, through strata and sea, toward an accumulation of depth, not climax. The mouth is dominant and unstable, where language exposes the vulnerability of naming, a theology re-rooted in a desire that organises power, gender, and animal life. Thinking occurs with the teeth and nails, committed to remaining in the abyss long enough to be eaten by it (as ‘The apple [itself], never Eve’).”
—Erin Honeycutt
Published by Discount Guillotine, 2026
About the Artist
KD Sims is a smut poet. Her work is featured in Stone of Madness Press, Dream Boy Book Club, Hooligan Magazine, and elsewhere. Sims’ first book, I Cut My Nails for You, is published by Discount Guillotine. She lives in Kingston, New York.
Available at the Feminist Center for Creative Work and Everywhere Shop !
“I Cut My Nails For You, again, proves that women invented poetry. KD Sims’ debut collection smears Persephonic perversity with buoyant, babyish puppy play, settling like honey at the bottom of the teacup. Her poems drip Call Me By Your Name levels of nectar, but her directives are dry as the family bone I keep in a jar. If you’ve ever wondered what Schiele’s painted women might be whispering to each other, this book is for you. Sims is a triple sexed Edna St. Vincent Millay, the cool Carrara marble of Patricia Cronin’s Memorial to a Marriage. She writes tight words for loose girls. Let yourself be gayly pollinated. Get your mind topped by the velveteen. Cut your nails and use this book to masturbate. Hell, enjoy something! KD Sims sure is.”
—L Scully
“KD Sims’ poems move from the mouth downward, through strata and sea, toward an accumulation of depth, not climax. The mouth is dominant and unstable, where language exposes the vulnerability of naming, a theology re-rooted in a desire that organises power, gender, and animal life. Thinking occurs with the teeth and nails, committed to remaining in the abyss long enough to be eaten by it (as ‘The apple [itself], never Eve’).”
—Erin Honeycutt
Published by Discount Guillotine, 2026
About the Artist
KD Sims is a smut poet. Her work is featured in Stone of Madness Press, Dream Boy Book Club, Hooligan Magazine, and elsewhere. Sims’ first book, I Cut My Nails for You, is published by Discount Guillotine. She lives in Kingston, New York.
