Koss Poetry & Art

Very surprised and grateful for this spicy book review by Jerome Berglund in Heterodox Haiku. It makes me feel good when someone gets pleasure out of reading my work. Here is a little excerpt, but please, if you have a few minutes, check it out here. And check out the ‘zine while you’re there!

Jami Macarty wrote a fabulous review of Dancing Backwards Towards Pluperfect which was published on New Pages today! She expertly wove quotes from the review into an insightful, seamless, and clever. Makes you kind of want to buy it. Find it here on Diode’s site, or purchase a signed copy from me (include a note […]

Welcome to 2025 and the lotta things hanging over us… And David Lynch just died. I hope he went out gently. It’s interesting, sort of, to see what he meant to different people. Blue Velvet was one of the most disturbing movies I’ve ever seen. I felt disturbed for days by the scissors scene… And […]

I’m honored and grateful to receive a Best Small Fictions nomination from Midway Journal for a flash piece, “No One Knew,” one of my most-read pieces, published in 2024. Find the other nominees in this promo…

James Diaz was kind to interview me about my book. We discuss grief, grandmas, metaphors, and humor. Find it here!

Honored to have an interview with Katie Jean Shinkle in Write or Die Magazine. We talk about queerness, Michigan, and grief. Read it here and find out more about Katie Jean and her new book, Tannery Bay (co-authored with Stephen Dunn) on her website.

(6 minute read) Thank you for visiting. I’ve decided to post this early because I’m not expecting to have any more publications this year. Some folks do an “eligibility post” because of nominations. To skip to the link list, click here. Republished pieces are clearly marked with a bold “reprint” and many are new. I’m […]

Today (October 30th) is the birth of my official Scorpio poetry book (I didn’t plan this), Dancing Backwards Towards Pluperfect, published by Diode Editions. It’s now shipping, and if you pre-ordered, you probably already received yours. Note I am a bit late in posting this as I have been giving myself a post-election breather. I’m […]

I’m very pleased to receive this beautiful review of my book, Dancing Backwards Towards Pluperfect by Elaine Fletcher Chapman in MicroLit. Huge gratitude to Catherine Parnell for publishing it and to Elaine for the deep read. Find it here.

September is here, and I thought I’d share a few thoughts as eclipse season approaches. Along with some publications the past few months, I received some finalist news, a couple personal and professional blows, and some Best of the Net nominations for art! As is always the case, success comes in small packets and with […]

It’s a tremendous honor to receive some Best of the Net nominations for the 2025 issue (out next year). Best of the Net is an annual digital anthology of literature and accompanying art published in a one-year period (usually July to June, I believe). Best of the Net is an imprint of Sundress Publications and […]

Very pleased to have this queer, romantic poem in Hyacinth Review. I rarely write romantic or racy poems, so it shouldn’t surprise me that I spent over five years picking at this. I felt sort of like Sylvia Plath, who was known to pick at poems forever. While I do a lot of editing, I’m […]