Chapbook. Poetry.
5.5” x 8.5”
20 pp.
Printed on vintage Eagle A Agawam Bond paper.
Cover variants in assorted colors.
Hand-stamped with the official seal of Illicit Zines.

The Years is burnout transcendence. The underground giving you a hug. This is pure literary gossip—loser-style. It will make you say YABBA DABBA DOO! and think about all the years. Let’s remember them together. Let’s be sisters in the moonlight. 

Nick Hedtke is a contemporary American poet whose work captures the fleeting experience of digital memory and the surreal beauty of everyday life. His poems invite readers into landscapes that shift between the physical and the virtual, the ordinary and the mythic, creating a body of work that is restless and deeply human. Writing about youth, desire, and the tension between freedom and fragility, Hedtke turns moments of vulnerability into vivid, minimalist snapshots. His language moves like a mixtape of late-night rides, internet ephemera, and half-remembered dreams, offering readers a space where time bends and feeling lingers.