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Outlook Springs Best of the Net Nominations 2023

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Very pleased and surprised to be among Outlook Springs Best of the Net nominees for 2023. My poem, if William Burroughs Were Your Secretary, published in Outlook Springs print journal and online, was nominated. There’s lots of great poetry and fiction you can find on their site. Check out the print issue and my sound file on my audio page. Also, another funny poem about job interviews, “Core Values,” was published on their site and there’s also an audio file here on my website. I love Outlook Springs and am grateful to Jeremy John Parker, Andrew R. Mitchell, Jayce and Al Mitchell and the other editors for this honor (and for having a sense of humor).

Outlook Springs Best of the Net 2023 Nominations Promo

Mom Egg Review | Eco-Poetry Folio

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Surprised and happy to be included in Mom Egg Review’s online eco-poetry-themed folio. It includes a great selection of poets, so be sure to read the whole issue here, and find my work here. The poems in this portfolio, curated by Cindy Veachy and Jennifer Martelli, are mother-ecological pieces with a range of poetic expressions.

red cliff photo with an excerpt of an eco-poem by koss in Mom's Egg Review
Untitled (Earth), a poem by Koss in Mom Egg Review’s poetry portfolio: Eco-Poetry: Nature Thru the Lens of the Mother (photo courtesy of Lubo Minar)

Rat’s Ass Review Fall & Winter 2022 | List Poem

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Happy to have a list poem included in Rat’s Ass Review’s Fall/Winter 2022 issue, “Ten Things to Remember About Me When I’m Dead,” a darkly funny piece that shares a few special things about me. I love list poems (also called inventory or catalog poems), which, in many cases, are zuihitsu poems with constraints. One of my favorite pieces I’ve written, in fact, was a very long list poem published in Isacoustic. Note I have two more list poems coming out this month in Spilled Ink, a project of Hooligan’s Magazine, so look for website updates or follow me on social using one of the provided links. Dark humor poems are my forte, and I always feel lucky when I come across a lit journal editor who appreciates dark, humorous poetry. Find this and other poems in my list poem post covering a range of list poetry-related topics.

black and white photo with feet and promotional red text announcing a dark humor list poem by koss published in Rat's Ass Review Fall Issue 2022
Ten Things to Remember About Me When I’m Dead, a list poem by Koss in Rat’s Ass Review
Photo courtesy of Danie Franco @danie__franco

Schuylkill Valley Journal | Koss Telemother Poem

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So grateful for this publication in Schuylkill Valley Journal, Volume 54, Spring Summer 2022, of “Telemother,” a mother poem I wrote in my twenties (it has been refined). This is such a handsome issue. When humans kill themselves off and the apes learn to read, they’ll find this in an abandoned used bookstore and love it. So much to love about print.

Schuylkill Valley Journal Poem by Koss, “Telemother”

San Pedro River Review | Poems About Ancestors

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Honored to be included in the latest San Pedro River Review (Vol. 14 No.2) in the company of some great poets. This is a long poem about my great-grandmother, West Virginia logging, labor, and my southern roots. I will update this with the actual poem in the near future, but here’s the link to buy it on Amazon.

Photo of San Pedro River Review, Volume 14, No. 2 with man looking over water, standing at the end of a wooden beach walk
San Pedro River Review, Volume 15, No. 2
photo of an axe in wood with an excerpt from a poem
“Economies,” an Excerpt from the poem by Koss in San Pedro River Review

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