Koss Poetry & Art

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 […]

#CW Suicide – I wrote a poem, Living with Dead Poets, for the talented New Zealand poet, Paula Harris, who died by suicide a year ago. I’m glad it has a home in Anti-Heroin Chic and am grateful to James Diaz for publishing it. Most of the poem is in conversation with Paula’s poems including […]

I’m very honored to be a finalist for the Best of the Net 2024 Anthology. This asemic, mixed-media work was published in Sage Cigarettes as a visual art feature in 2023. It’s ink, acrylic paint, and collaged dots on handmade paper. The judge for art this year was Astri Snodgrass. I’m grateful for the nominations […]

I’m honored to have another preview of poems from my forthcoming chapbook, “Dancing Backwards Towards Pluperfect” in Diode’s Substack newsletter, “All Things Diode.” Also find a cover reveal (cover by Law Alsobrook), and other Diode news, including contest information. You can sign up for their newsletter here also! Also, you can preorder the book now. […]

Happy summer and happy Pride! I hope you’re tan, active, and gay (one way or another). I thought I was finished publishing last report, but I got a second wind and took some workshops, so I will have a few things more in the coming months in addition to my chapbook publication in the fall. […]

It was nice to see my name on the longlist for Wigleaf Top 50. Congratulations to all of the winners and longlisted folks. I see lots of writer friends on the list, and there’s lots to celebrate today. My piece was The Short Lives of Wombats published in MoonPark Review in ’23. Bonus, it’s a […]

Pleased to first have this cobalt blue iteration of my asemic crow in the MER Lit spring print issue. It is collaged over a page from Wuthering Heights and mounted on plywood. They included it in an online selections feature along with another piece of art, plus poetry. Check it out here (you can also […]

Lannie Stabile’s awesome new book, When the Forest Finds You is available for pre-order! I was honored to design the cover for it. Published by Variant Lit, the chapbook follows several of Lannie’s other books including Good Morning to Everyone Except Men Who Name Their Dog Zeus. This book is a unique hybrid of poetry, […]

It has been a very busy month, so I thought I’d do a quick post with some links to things. But along with these publications, I want to share that I’ll be doing more self publishing, along with producing some prints, and further off, some broadsides. Please keep me in mind if you have a […]