Koss Poetry & Art
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Publications by Koss
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recent poems & FLASH | 2019-2022 publications
11-Month Post-Suicide Vacation Poem | Isacoustic
Airport Meeting | Eunoia Review
Affection *Pushcart nom. | Variant Lit
Again, Holidays, *BotN nom. | Gone Lawn
Aldi: Simple Things | North Dakota Quarterly
All the Dead People on Social Media Haunt You | Lumiere
Alternative Thanksgiving | Lumiere Review
Always Almost | Bull
A Modern Kind of Highway Death | Spillway
And So On in a Week | Entropy (defunct)
Black and White and Red | Anvil Tongue
Colleen Does the DIA | Golden Walkman
Core Values, Interview Poem | Outlook Springs
Dead People Don’t Dream Hamburgers | Eunoia Review
Desk | Spilled Ink
Economies | San Pedro River Review
Dictations of Cabbages *Pushcart nom. | Gone Lawn
Dinner at the Brady’s | Bending Genres
Don’t Call me Noo Noo | Lunch Ticket
Dyke Cowgirl Takes Herself on Taco Bell Date, +BoTN nom. | Kissing Dynamite
Drunk Michigan Mermaid Sings to the Dead | Bending Genres (fc)
Drunk Michigan Mermaid Sings to the Dead | Bone Milk (fc)
Emma Lazarus’ Outing | Sinister Wisdom
Field Days | What Rough Beast
Fire | Alien Buddha Zine
Five for | Feral Poetry
Final Journey: Leaving the Tenement | Anti-Heroin Chic
Flint Girl | SoFloPoJo
Giving Thanks | Spoon River Review
Gratitudes | Scissors and Spackle
Grieving in Tongues | Bonemilk II (fc)
Haibun: Love Song for My Lemon Hare | Entropy (defunct)
Headache | Dreich Magazine
Holy Jesus-free Bingo Hall | Moist Poetry
Hope | Anvil Tongue
Hue Sung | Red Ogre Review
Ice Cream | Anti-Heroin Chic
I Appeared in Your Suicide Dream | Spillway
If William Burroughs Were Your Secretary, *BoTN nom. | Outlook Springs
Imayo: Her Soul Becomes Weary | Harpy Hybrid Review
In Other Countries | Anti-Heroin Chic
I Still Talk to You Two Years Later | Harpy Hybrid Review
I Was Told There’d Be No Service | Harpy Hybrid Review
Kim | Cincinnati Review
Ensnared/Discarded | Kissing Dynamite Poetry
Loss | Rogue Agent
Love Song for a Friend | Scissors and Spackle
Love Songs to My Ancestors | Sinister Wisdom
Magpie Draws its Sorrow Line | Lunch Ticket
Magpies Dazzling | Lunch Ticket
Max, Carrie’s Mother | Anti-Heroin Chic
Max’s Bedroom | Dreich Magazine
Modern Highway Death | Spillway
Molotov Mother | The Racket
Mother, Superego, When You Died, the World | Anti-Heroin Chic
Mourning Aubade | Amethyst Review
My Therapist Sez | Diode Poetry
Myth of the Father | Anti-Heroin Chic
Navigation | What Rough Beast
Not on the Railroad Tracks | Bending Genres
Nowhere Pussy | Filth Lit Mag
November Betrays All Jiltings | Eunoia Review
Opt-Out Mother | San Pedro River Review
Poems White Trash Don’t Write | Anti-Heroin Chic
Ponds | Entropy (defunct)
Repository | San Pedro River Review
Reversals: May 18, Nine Months In | Diode Poetry
Road Trip | Bull
Sad Navigations of Passerines | Isacoustic
Sandwich | Schuylkill Valley Dispatches
Shoulder Story | Rogue Agent
Since You’re Gone: I Dream You Laughing | Schuylkill Dispatches
Sister Story | Bending Genres
Six for (Post-Partum) | Anti-Heroin Chic
Skins | Chiron Review
Slippery Gods | Prelude
Soft Address to the Bottleneck: In Stillpoint Two | Amethyst Review
Soft Address to the Bottleneck: In Stillpoint Two | Hyacinth Review
Space Changes | What Rough Beast
Space Mermaid | Chiron Review
St. John’s Visitations | Alien Buddha Zine
Still Life w/Cherry Tomatoes and Singing Bowl | Rat’s Ass Review
Suicide Suit | Anti-Heroin Chic
Telemother | Schuylkill Valley
Ten Things to Remember About Me When I’m Dead | Rat’s Ass Review
The Dating Game | The Racket
The Fall of Toby and Lady, *BotN nom. | Bending Genres
The General’s Daughter | Bull
The Hudson Looks Different | Petrichor
The Sounds of the NIght Instead | Boats Against the Currents
The Tourists | Westchester Review
Things Without You | 433
Things to Do When An Abuser Dies | Spilled Ink
Through the Body’s Bramble | Feral Poetry
TV | Rat’s Ass Review
Twelve Past Dead | Lumiere Review
Unbearable Inertia of Clothes | Bending Genres
Untitled (Earth) | Mom Egg Review Online Portfolio
What Becomes, the Hawk | Amethyst Review
What Max Said Before Climbing into her Spaceship | Feral
Where Art Came From | Filth Lit Mag
W. Marx Performs John Cage’s 4’33: YouTube | 433
Without You | Dreich Magazine
Write Like Them | What Rough Beast
You, Drawing | Bending Genres (fc)
You, Drawing (revised) | Bonemilk II (fc)
You, Earth | Up the Staircase Quarterly
You Kant Take it With You | Five Points
You, Me and Matthew Arnold | Dreich Magazine
You Told Me He Threw Paint on the Building | Alien Buddha Zine
Your Voice, Ours (Seven for) | Dreich Magazine
Mentions, Features, Art & Visual Poetry
Koss Five-Part Interview | Mini Interviews
Amuse Bouche | Lunch Ticket
Featured Poet | Kissing Dynamite
Dead People on Social | F(r)iction
Discussion on Writing | Harpy Hybrid Review
Wattenberg “Failure Poetics” | C-Review
Main page feature | Diode
Podcast Reading | Eat the Storms
Visual Poetry x 5 | Diode
Visual Poetry x 4 | Up the Staircase
Suite of Paintings | Michigan Quarterly Mixtapes
Cover Art | Michigan Quarterly Mixtapes
Visual Poetry | Anvil Tongue
Photograph/I Still Talk to You | Harpy Hybrid
Photograph/I Was Told | Harpy Hybrid
Photograph/Imayo | Harpy Hybrid
Snake Drawing | Schuylkill Valley Dispatches
Caged Angel Photo | Bonemilk II (fc)
Tornado Art | Eat the Storms Inaugural Issue
Tornado Art | Inspired poem on Dan Cyran’s site
Cover Art | Gone Lawn
Five Photos | Hyacinth Review
Three Crossword Poems | Harpy Hybrid Review
Visual Poems x12 | Kissing Dynamite (fc-’23)
Five Asemic Pieces | Diode (fc Dec.)
Erasure Poem | (Re) Ideas (fc)
Anthologies, Contests & NOMINATIONS
Fucked Up History | Punk Anthology Kissing Dynamite
Kim | Best Small Fictions 2020
Postcard to Ms. Liberty | Diode’s Beyond the Frame (2023 Spring)
My Therapist Sez | Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Award 2021
Through the Body’s Bramble | Finalist in Diode Chapbook Competition, 2021
Best of the Net 2022 Nominee for Fiction | Bending Genres
Best of the Net 2022 Nominee for Poetry | Kissing Dynamite
Best of the Net 2023 Nominee for Poetry | Gone Lawn
Best of the Net 2023 Nominee for Poetry | Outlook Springs
Hue Sung | Red Ogre Review Anthology 2022
Grieving in Tongues + | Bone Milk II Anthology | 2023
The Fall of Toby and Lady | 2023 | Get Bent by Bending Genres
Affection | CNF Pushcart Nomination from Variant Lit, 2022
Dictations of Cabbages | Pushcart Nomination from Gone Lawn, 2022
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