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Schuylkill Valley Journal | Dispatches | Publication

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Very happy to have this experimental writing, Because You Are Gone: I Dream You Laughing in Schuylkill Valley Journal Dispatches. When Schuylkill editor Rob Kaniuk wrote me and said it was “kick ass,” it confirmed my suspicion it was finished and gives me the confidence to stay strange (and experimental). Schuylkill’s Dispatches is an online feature where they publish genre-defying writing. They also have online issues, plus they publish a bi-annual print journal. They’ve been publishing for about 30 years.

I wrote this piece in a really great Bending Genre’s workshop with one of my favorite fiction writers, Meg Tuite. I highly recommend their workshops. They usually span two to three days and you post your work (and share feedback) in their proprietary system (it’s not Zoom, so we don’t have to worry about someone stealing our details).

Akashic bits is, I believe, a catchall genre for stories–the dreams, the past, the future, the everywhen–all floating out there in the ether.

dream black snake b&w ink drawing with woman's head eating a bird and her tail curled around a dead rabbit
Schuyllkill Valley Journal Dispatches Publication by Koss, Illustration by Koss

Gone Lawn | Koss | Zuihitsu Poem

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Thrilled to have poetry in Gone Lawn #42. Thank you @OwenKaelan and @amygcb! There are lots of great writers in this issue. This is my third poem about holidays published in 2021, and how fortunate this one comes out on Halloween and as those other holidays come creeping. This piece, “Again, Holidays” is a zuihitsu poem painted with a broad brush. Read more about zuihitsu writing on this site.

Good diving in water with text for poem promotion for Gone Lawn Issue and Koss Zuihitsu
“Again, Holidays,” a Koss Zuihitsu Prose Poem in Gone Lawn

Prelude Magazine – a Koss poem

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Very honored to have this poem, which has had a hard life, in Prelude Magazine. It’s called “Slippery Gods, Not Things” and, well, you just need to click and read it. More art coming soon. Promise. And maybe I’ll even get some up to sell in the near future.

white-out grainy photo of an outhouse in the woods with text about poem in Prelude Magazine
“Slippery Gods, Not Things,” a poem by Koss in Prelude Magazine.

Poem | TV | Rat’s Ass Review

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Happy to have a second poem published in Rat’s Ass Review on 10-27-2021. This issue is full of great writers and has a lovely cover (I’ll update this when I’m not so tired). Read it here, and, of course, here’s an album cover, although I fear I soon won’t have time to make these, half-assed as they might be. Also, check out this other post that includes Cherry Tomatoes in Singing Bowl (the other poem published by Rat’s Ass Review) or just read the poem on their site. Lots of good things happening in October. Peace.

TV, a Poem by Koss in Rat’s Ass Review

Best of the Net 2021

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I’m really touched today that Bending Genres nominated my Toby and Lady piece for fiction for Best of the Net 2021. It means so much coming from such a talented bunch of writers. Other BOTN nominees included Lannie Stabile for poetry, and, well, you can see the Bending Genres Twitter list here. And read “The Fall of Toby and Lady” here.

Fall of Toby and Lady zuihitsu promo photo with multiple black Airdale silohettes on pink background
Best of the Net 2021 Nominee for Fiction from Bending Genres

Poem | A Modern Highway Death | Spillway

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This is throwback Saturday, I guess. This poem was previously published in Spillway 27.

A Modern Highway Death, Poem in Spillway, with snow track explosion in monochrome yellowed gray tones.
A Modern Highway Death, Poem by Koss in Spillway

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