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Koss December 2020 Publications

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Poem in Golden Walkman Response Issue

As an artist, I have to admit feeling extra disappointed at getting rejected from ekphrastic magazines and calls. Was pleased to get chosen by guest editor, Trish Hopkinson for the Golden Walkman Magazine “In Response” theme. My piece is located at about 12:58. I have another art related poem in Filth that includes Andy Warhol and Joseph Bueys. Neither are strictly ekphrastic.

north dakota quarterly cover art and poem by koss
Poem in North Dakota Quarterly

North Dakota Quarterly published a double issue, which I received in early January. This piece is about love and the simple joys in life, which, at times like these, are important to pay attention to. Love NDQ’s 70’s retro/Art Nouveauish logo. I feel in many of these publications I’m spreading Max’s ashes and maybe mine too.

Diode Publication | My Therapist Sez

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Very thrilled to have this poem published in Diode–the only poem in the galaxy that includes papaya salad, kundalini awakenings, and bad therapy. Lots of good writing in this issue and an interesting Diane Seuss conversation/interview where she aptly talks about the differences between poetry and art.

This is an excerpt. Link to read the entire poem.

New Publications | Poetry | Koss | November 2020

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Was pleased to get this copy of Spillway #28 in the mail a couple days ago. Lots of good poetry on the inside . . . This is a dream poem from my forthcoming book, One for Sorrow. I’ve been told it’s cheap to write about dreams, but I rather think of dreams as poems we write when sleeping. This particular one was somewhat nightmarish. I had another dream poem, “Dead People Don’t Dream Hamburgers” (keep reading) published this month in Eunoia Review.

Eunoia Review is an online journal based in Singapore with a large readership, and I was very grateful they accepted these three poems, including a prose poem, “Dead People Don’t Dream Hamburgers,” also from my book. Please click on the links to read the poems, and check out my main page for links to many of my online pieces.

Dead People Don’t Dream Hamburgers, a prose poem
November Betrays All Jiltings, a poem
Airport Meeting, a poem

Amethyst Review also published some poems this month, two mystical pieces.

What Becomes, the Hawk, a poem

I make these half-assed promos for social, but decided I could share them full-sized here, and generally, when someone goes to a blog, they need something to look at. The only thing they all have in common is I try not to spend too much time on them. Most are cobbled together from my own photos, but I have been known to tinker with stock photos. I think if I could say one true thing about death, this passage about absence is IT.

Mourning Aubade, a poem

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