Castagraf was an online poetry magazine published by me, Scott Gilbertson, and Laura Solomon, who was its editor and all around brilliant leader. I just wrote the code.
Castagraf put out six issues (maybe seven?) between roughly 2000-2002. At some point between then and 2009 I forgot to renew the domain name and some domain squatter swiped it. I managed to get .net back and continued to host the old issues there for a while longer.
Unfortunately Castagraf was published using Flash, which no longer works in any web browser.
Castagraf took shape back in the days when CSS was just getting off the ground. Web browser support for CSS was hit or miss. I was a perfectionist about layout and typography so I used Flash for pixel-perfect results. It’s easy to see how that was a bad decision now, but at the time it made sense.
Castagraf magazine, like Flash itself, is lost to time at this point. Still it deserves some placeholder for its existence. Life moves on, this page is all that remains.
Laura Solomon is now co-executive director of Wisconsin’s Woodland Pattern. I currently (2020) write for Wired Magazine and my own website, the one you’re on right now.
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