Koss (she/they/Aquarian)

Thank you to @brettpribble.bsky.social and Ghost Parachute for giving my new story a home. 🩵

Chopped! Flash & Micro writing class, March 6 at 2:30pm EST. Offered on Zoom.

Just a few slots left for this week’s workshop! Registration link here:

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@jackiebrown20.bsky.social Thank you!

@masatokanasashi.bsky.social Thank you for being sharey. Happy Friday!

Thank you, @nathanpettigrew.bsky.social, @samrasnake.bsky.social, @susanbarryschulz.com, @jenwithwords.bsky.social, @rodmannix.bsky.social, @clayrebenz.bsky.social !!! Happy Friday!

A close up of cherry blossoms with pale petals.

A close up of cherry blossoms with pale petals.

A close up of cherry blossoms with pale petals.

Hints of sweetness and spring! 🌸

Days when it's hard to think about anything but chaos and destruction... As much as I'd like to distract myself, things feel so overwhelming and dire... Where is the stop button?

I love this collection so much! Brilliant writing by @sabrinahicks.bsky.social Yay! 🎉💙🎉

KOSS reading their poetry at SoFloPoJo Presents YouTube video by SoFloPoJo South Florida Poetry Journal

If you missed my reading with @soflopojo.bsky.social with @clayrebenz.bsky.social, here is a URL, and go to their main page to find Clayre's reading, interviews, and issue readings! youtu.be/VfbFZji33zU

SoFloPoJo # 40 online now
www.southfloridapoetryjournal.com

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Thank you to all the straight men who have generously supported and shared my writing. I appreciate you. Happy Sunday!

Thank you. Hanging in there!

YW! Hope you are well and having a good weekend!

KOSS reading their poetry at SoFloPoJo Presents YouTube video by SoFloPoJo South Florida Poetry Journal

If you missed my reading with @soflopojo.bsky.social with @clayrebenz.bsky.social , it is on YouTube. Split by reader, so you can find Clayre's reading along with others by going to their page. Thank you Michael Mackin O'Mara for the video work here--and for everything! :-) youtu.be/VfbFZji33zU

Pre-order Dead of Winter IV: An Anthology The fourth anthology in the Dead of Winter series brings the danger and dread of winter cold and the hope that comes with the return and renewal of spring. These poems explore the sublime and uncan…

Thrilled to have three poems in this new anthology from Milk and Cake Press. You can preorder here--plus buy their other books. Also, they have an open call for manuscripts open. milkandcakepress.com/product/pre-...

thank you @birdwriterwrites.bsky.social for sharing my writing and art!

Thanks so much, @melostrom.bsky.social !!

Check out this amazing flash by @kossworks.bsky.social! 🔥

Thank you!

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Happy Wednesday to you, Nathan!

If it is Not Only the Moment of the Event But the Passing Out of it That is Traumatic, Survival Itself Can Be a Crisis No lights on, my Baba sits in her livingroom, telling me about the endof the world. I am alonethere. My father dropped me offtwo hours from home when he went awayto work. July, merciless in the hea…

“… I will grow
my hair like loneliness. Memory

will become the address
lost with my father’s body. If I had loved myself

too? ...”

@chelsdingman.bsky.social in Indianapolis Review theindianapolisreview.com/if-it-is-not...

Congrats, Rose!

“Astro Mischief.” A Poem by Preeti Vangani Not sure what’s more embarrassing, that at fourteen I still lusted for stuffed animals or that mum’s target at the claw machine was way better than mine. Precise as threading a needle, she’d push t…

“Not sure what’s more embarrassing, that at fourteen
I still lusted for stuffed animals or that mum’s target
at the claw machine was way better than mine.”

Read this amazing poem from @preetivangani.bsky.social’s FIFTY MOTHERS (@riverriverbooks.bsky.social) on LitHub today! 🎉🎉🎉

My new poetry collection, Experimental Eclecticisms, is out now!

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#poetry #experimentalpoetry #Dadaism #Surrealism #Avantgarde #micropoetry #haiku

Thank you, @amygrech.bsky.social and @nathanpettigrew.bsky.social for sharing!!!

Thank you, @linecaro.bsky.social, @rodmannix.bsky.social, @susanlleary.bsky.social for sharing my writing and art!

Honored to be included in the current issue of San Pedro River Review. I have this hybrid piece and an art piece (in color--woohoo)! The Alfiers are lovely editors to work with, and I'm so glad they haven't gotten sick of me.

A thickly painted oil of pink foxgloves on a pale blue background with such rich yolk yellow brush marks amongst them

Painting created c.midC20th, in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital in Surrey, by an individual who was compelled to live there, whose identity is currently unknown to us.
This image is taken from art therapist Edward Adamson’s lecture slides & the original is missing presumed lost