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Koss Interview by Patty Paine of Diode Editions

September 2, 2025 ·

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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 are some bonus photos you might enjoy.

Asemic Art by Koss | MER Literary Feature

June 23, 2024 ·

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Asemic Crow Artwork from MER Literary

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 buy the issue). They are lovely editors to work with. I’ve been published with them a couple of times. One of the poems they published was about abandonment and will be in my forthcoming book from Diode Editions. There have been several different versions of this previously published in Up the Staircase Quarterly and Anvil Tongue.

Diode Poetry | My Therapist Sez Featured Poem

May 1, 2021 ·

Pleasantly surprised to find my poem, “My Therapist Sez” was featured on Diode Poetry’s main page (along with an excerpt. It may disappear by the time you find this, so here’s the link to the entire poem. Patty Paine has been good to me and Diode is publishing some really great work in the journal (and in books and chapbooks).

Update: this poem won the 2021 Wergle Flomp Humor Award. Read about the contest on Winning Writer’s site. Listen to the poem on my audio page.

“My Therapist Sez” on Diode’s main page.

Koss is Featured Poet, Kissing Dynamite Poetry

January 24, 2021 ·

Happy to be Kissing Dynamite’s Featured Poet on this new issue release day. They are one of my favorite inclusive press/journals.

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