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Asemic Art by Koss | MER Literary Feature

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black crow with asemic writing and asemic text over a wuthering heights page carrying a baby sack. cobalt background. collaged.
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.

Harpy Hybrid Review | Visual Poetry

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Honored to have some visual poetry in Harpy Hybrid Review (three pieces included). This is my second publication with them, so I’m thrilled to be invited back. They include questions for the artists to complete describing their process, so I did my best to shed some light. This is a great issue with lots of visual poetry as well as writing. I love this ‘zine. Find my work here, and read about my other Harpy Hybrid publications here.

Visual Poetry by Koss using Crossword Puzzle pages with a Harpy Hybrid header.
Harpy Hybrid Review, Koss Crossword Visual Poems

Asemic Writing, Erasure Poetry | Up the Staircase Quarterly

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Grateful to be in Up the Staircase Quarterly #57. This issue is full of great poetry and art. Poetry by these people included:

  • Quinn Forlini | “Attenuation”
  • Sanvitti Sahdev | “I fill up”
  • Fiona Lu | “hunting”
  • Oluwafisayo Akinfolami | “Semantics”
  • Satya Dash | 2 poems: “Elasticity” and “Two Deaths”
  • Jill Khoury | “Subjective Units of Distress Scale 1-10”
  • Ran Zhao | “floodpath”
  • Olivia J. Kiers | “Shower: Arc de Triomphe”
  • Anaïs Deal-Márquez | “Gringa.”
  • Jace Raymond Smellie | “for my grandma doris almost four years after”
  • Chase Dimock | “Contaminants”
  • Kolbe Riney | 2 poems: “sexy villain” and “voyager”

and artwork by:

  • Sara Louise Wilson | Haunt Me + more
  • Elizabeth Wing | Blüd Rites
  • jw summerisle | Strangers
  • Shelbey Leco | Blue.
  • Koss | Wuthering Heights 1, Magpie +more
  • Tomislav Silipetar | WHAT IS LEFT

Emanuela Iorga is the issue illustrator with multiple bullet-riddled images in a starkly graphic (not literal) style.

Also, reviews by:

  • Tyler Friend | Him or Her or Whatever
  • Jasmine Elizabeth Smith | South Flight
  • ​L.E. Bowman | What I Learned from the Trees

I have four pieces from a magpie/hare series slated for my book, plus one visual poem that utilizes text from a poem, “Shoulder Story,” originally published in Rogue Agent. The other pieces reference or erase passages of Wuthering Heights. Find my page here, and read the whole issue here.

I’ve been taking a break from writing poetry and doing visual word art, including asemic writing/recycling from journals, crossword poems, and uncategorizable stuff, but I have lots of work coming out in the next few months, including some difficult abuse writing and some more visual poetry in Diode. It feels good to get back to painting and drawing.

Magpie asemic art piece with writing and Wuthering Heights erasure poetry text in and surrounding black magpie.
Up the Staircase Visual Poetry, Asemic Writing, and Erasure Poetry by Koss

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