Koss Poetry & Art

Honored to have a personal essay about abandonment in Five Points, a journal I very much admire. Grateful to Megan Sexton, Olivia Ivings, Erin Carlyle, Eve Clark, Courtney Causey, Elizabeth Garcia, Kelly Kurtzhals, Ian Lindsay, Redd Long, Nathaniel Meals, Sung-June Park, Rachel Pitmann, Victoria Pitter, Merrick Preti, Alicia Raines, and Isaiah Underwood for all of […]

Honored to have asemic writing and abstract art included in Midway Journal, Volume 20, Issue 1. They do a great job of displaying it. This is a fabulous issue and includes work by Kelly Gray, Jennifer Maritza Macauley, Ryan Russell, Sean Thomas Daugherty, Bethany Cutkomp and many other familiar faces. Please check it out here. […]

Very honored to receive this poetry book review for Dancing Backwards Towards Pluperfect from Jenny Wong in Sinister Wisdom’s Wild Shrew Literary Review online magazine. Grateful to Jenny and Chloe Berger and Julie Enszer! Find it here and check out their other reviews and magazine subscription information while you’re there. Sinister Wisdom has been publishing […]

Happy to have received this Monarch Queer Literary Awards nomination. Thank you, Rogan Kelly and Fifth Wheel Press. Congrats and good luck y’all. Check out the finalist page and the beautiful session (issue) here!

I’m very pleased to have work in the latest issue of Chiron Review, one of my favorite magazines. It’s a dream poem that includes Max, Helen Reddy, and a Harold and Maude reference. It first appeared online in Moist Poetry a few years back. I’m glad it also has this paper life. I see lots […]

2025 was not a prolific publishing year for me. However, I turned a funk into a gardening adventure, and that was life changing. What did get published, with the help and talent of some very generous people, were some interviews, plus some great book reviews for Dancing Backwards Towards Pluperfect were also published, which I […]

Today is my chapbook, Dancing Backwards Towards Pluperfect’s first birthday. The year has flown by quickly and much has happened both in my book life, my real life, and in America’s life, not to mention the upheaval everywhere. There were high notes and disappointments, one of the highs being it was shortlisted for a Lammy […]

Sharing several poems about narcissism, some previously published, some not. This is a poem/work in progress about narcissism that I pulled to contemplate more fully, but also just because submitting feels like such a drag lately. Have you ever been in a relationship with a narcissist (or born to one)? Or had a narcissistic boss? […]

Very honored to have this #CW piece win third in Midway Journal’s contest. Lee Horikoshi Roripaugh was the final judge of the contest, and I’m grateful to Suzanne Richardson, Ralph Pennel, and the rest of the editors for all of their work. Read the piece here, and be sure to check out the other contest […]

Humbled and honored to get a Best of the Net Nomination for this micro fiction/prose poem piece, “The Theft,” about my ass published in Ran Off with the Star Bassoon. Thank you Rogan Kelly and staff, and congrats and good luck everyone! Read the piece here:

This spring and summer, instead of writing, I retreated from lit, (except for a thin online presence) and grew a garden. I was feeling tired, had a very difficult ’24 fall and winter with things going wrong on all fronts, expensive home and now auto repairs, and clients and friends blowing me off, causing hardship […]

So happy to have placed 3rd in Midway Journal’s Contest! Congratulations to the other winners and finalists and big thanks to judge, Lee Roripaugh, Ralph Pennel, Suzanne Richardson, and all of the editors of Midway Journal. From their promotions, here’s the complete list: Winners: 1st Prize: “Grooves,” by Jay McKenzie 2nd Prize: “Beak,” by Meggie […]