Koss Poetry & Art

So happy to have placed 3rd in Midway Journal’s Contest! Congratulations to the other winners and finalists and big thanks to judge, Lee Roripaugh, Ralph Pennel, Suzanne Richardson, and all of the editors of Midway Journal. From their promotions, here’s the complete list: Winners: 1st Prize: “Grooves,” by Jay McKenzie 2nd Prize: “Beak,” by Meggie […]

Honored to have a micro review in Bending Genres written by poet, Matthew Freeman! Check it out here, and find out more about the book on Diode’s site. You can purchase there, or, if you’re in the U.S. I still have some copies as of 9/13/25.

I’m very happy to have this interview by Patty Paine of Diode Editions in their Substack newsletter. Note you can access it here. I’d be really grateful also, if you share this on social. We discuss working-class writing, humor, and talk a bit about my contest-winning and Lammy-shortlisted chapbook, Dancing Backwards Towards Pluperfect. And there […]

Pleased to have work in San Pedro River Review, No. 17, Vol. 3, Fall 2025. This issue has color art pages and work by several artists including JC Alfier. This is a gratitude poem from a series. They are a sort of spiritual pulling oneself up by the bootstraps. Find the issue on Amazon.

I’m humbled and blown away to learn my chapbook, Dancing Backwards Towards Pluperfect is a finalist for the 2025, 37th Annual Lambda Lammy Poetry Awards! The winner has not been revealed and will be announced later in the fall with an online awards ceremony. Read the entire list and find out more about Lambda here. […]

I’m very pleased to have a piece selected for the longlist for the 2025 Wigleaf Top 50. The Wigleaf Top 50 is an annual digital anthology of hand selected short fiction work published online. The 2025 selections are based on the year 2024. This year is the last year Shome Dasgupta will be running the […]

I’m so very honored to have this interview by Hanna Greico about Dancing Backwards (from Diode Editions) in the latest issue of one of my all-time favorite literary zines, Chiron Review! We discuss process, privacy issues, form and more! Thank you, Hannah, Michael Hathaway, and all the editors for publishing it and for this fabulous […]

It’s very pleased to have art in The Pinch Journal, a journal I really admire. Very grateful to Editor-in-Chief, Courtney Miller Santo, Managing Editor, Joshua Carlucci, Art Editor, Isaiah Kennedy and the rest of the staff for putting together such a lovely issue (and for including me). There is lots of great art, poetry, and […]

Carla Sarett wrote a beautiful book review of Dancing Backwards and Trampoline Poetry published it. It is a very thorough and generous review—I’m sure you will enjoy it. Note that their reviews seems to be loaded on one page, one after the other, so if you arrive on my page in the far future, you […]

Very pleased and honored by this very queer book review of Dancing Backwards Towards Pluperfect by Erin Vachon and published in Moist Poetry. Aside from the flattering recommendation, it’s nice to see my work resonating with other queers. And I agree that we need queer poetry right now more than ever as our basic civil […]

Very grateful for this interview in (Re) An Ideas Journal, today. Thank you, Kristine Esser Slentz for your time and thoughtfulness in this interview. And thank you, Felice Neals and H.E. Fisher (editors) for the publication. So honored! We talk about grief, healing, trauma, religion, and writing queer and working class. Be sure to read […]

Pleased and surprised to find this lyrical book review by Barton Smock, a brilliant language-kind-of-poet with a heart. Barton published one of the poems (the last long list poem) in Isacoustic, his journal, a few years ago. Find the review here.