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Koss (she/they/Aquarian)
@kossworks.bsky.social
Poet, artist, writer. Dancing Backwards Towards Pluperfect, Diode Editions. Lammy Poetry Finalist '25, BSF '20, Wigleaf Top 50 longlist. Granta Memoir
Website: https://koss-works.com
Book: https://koss-works.com/dancing-backwards-towards-pluperfect/
Happy to have work forthcoming in @stanchion.bsky.social ! Thank you, Jeff!
January 24, 2026 at 10:57 AM
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My first story of 2026 is up in Necessary Fiction! Thank you so much EIC @shimmer.bsky.social Himmer and guest editor @nicholas-claro.bsky.social for picking my story.
This week's fiction is "Just Another Saturday Night" by @dawnsteffler.bsky.social, selected by guest editor @nicholas-claro.bsky.social. necessaryfiction.com/stories/just...
January 23, 2026 at 6:21 PM
Thanks, kindly, @rodmannix.bsky.social !!
January 23, 2026 at 2:22 PM
This is soon, 7 PM Eastern Time. Hope to see you!
Reminder, this is coming up. Hope to see you there with a poem for Open Mic! Register here:
January 22, 2026 at 10:19 PM
I no longer have crushes on human beings, only people's dogs, but not to worry, they are platonic crushes... This is better, really.
January 22, 2026 at 1:42 AM
Reminder, this is coming up. Hope to see you there with a poem for Open Mic! Register here:
January 20, 2026 at 4:31 PM
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January 18, 2026 at 10:37 PM
2 small art pieces for $ if you are interested. Having surgery and will be laid up for awhile--trying to generate some $ to tide me over... 1 cradled piece and 1 paper with glass + handmade frame (maple ebonized). I used to build frames for galleries. DM #artwork, #worksonpaper
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January 19, 2026 at 6:19 PM
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Deep gratitude to the poet @hanvanderhart.bsky.social for curating a series that reinforces what a mighty cultural movement poetry is!
January 19, 2026 at 3:20 PM
This. Book. Is Gorgeous. Thank you, @susanlleary.bsky.social for your words! You can preorder and have in your hands soon here: triohousepress.myshopify.com/products/mor...
January 19, 2026 at 3:45 PM
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book mail! thrilled to dig into the wondrous poems of @susanlleary.bsky.social 🌷
January 18, 2026 at 4:41 PM
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DIODE
Reading for our 19th Anniversary Issue!

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November 27, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Absolutely loving @mrmandell8.bsky.social 's latest poetry book about the life passages and resilience of girls, of THESE girls. It's raw, intelligent, and full of wisdom. I highly recommend it! Buy here:

www.finishinglinepress.com/product/the-...

#poetry, #girlhood, #chapbook, 📚❣️
January 19, 2026 at 1:59 AM
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Not much writing this week. I am doing this thing tho where I pretend my window is an etch-a-sketch and I write poems in the sky and shake the window when a bird comes into frame.
January 18, 2026 at 4:06 PM
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Sharing one of mine for this week’s installment of #smallpoemsunday!

🌸 MORE FLOWERS 🌸 out in 2 weeks with @triohousepress.org!

@tomsnarsky.bsky.social
January 18, 2026 at 4:12 PM
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I'm pleased to add these authors (and a few of their credits) to the Highly-Rated Authors page on the Literary Retweet website.
@dnschmidt.com
@jarnopp.bsky.social
@mikesahno.bsky.social
@d2montgomery.bsky.social
@glcharleboisbks.bsky.social
www.literaryretweet.com/highly-rated...
January 18, 2026 at 6:33 PM
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Pleased to have new work in Through the Looking Glass - An International Portraiture of Mothers (Ballerini Book Press)

"'Don’t let the world pass you by,' she always told me, and each time I’d imagine myself to be a planet or moon or comet..."

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Ballerini Book PressSlender. Never Spineless.Through The Looking Glass – New Release
Through The Looking Glass. An International Portraiture of Mothers ISBN: 978-3-9526204-2-7 A glimpse into the lives and passions of the imperfect, but central women in our lives, who shape us, as m…
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January 18, 2026 at 8:53 PM
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Only one more week to enter the Memoir Excerpt & Essay Contest at CRAFT! Roxane Gay judges this year. See details here: www.craftliterary.com/craft-memoir...
January 18, 2026 at 9:54 PM
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The first official review of my NiF is out in the world! Thanks @ninamiller.bsky.social and @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social! US orders: jakethemag.com/books/

Non US or signed copies (I only have 2 left until I restock) docs.google.com/forms/u/1/d/...
January 18, 2026 at 9:46 PM
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weekly ukulele video 🥰❤️

youtu.be/j_NmcFi2oZ8
weekly ukulele video 🥰❤️ (January 19, 2026)
YouTube video by Melissa Llanes Brownlee
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January 18, 2026 at 9:49 PM
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“even though to imagine it / all at once is lonely”

~ @isaacpickell.bsky.social from his @blackoceanbooks.bsky.social collection “It’s Not Over Once You Figure It Out” for #smallpoemsunday

Cc @tomsnarsky.bsky.social
January 18, 2026 at 4:19 PM
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HAPPY NEWS! I am grateful to the amazing Eugenia Leigh for choosing my manuscript SENTENCE to win the 2025 Nine Syllables Press Chapbook Contest! These poems are as much my brother’s as my own & I am thankful to everyone at Smith College for believing in them! Coming fall 2026!

Image: 9SP IG page
January 16, 2026 at 12:47 AM
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Congratulations @susanlleary.bsky.social !!!!
And for me another reading pleasure to look forward to 😍
HAPPY NEWS! I am grateful to the amazing Eugenia Leigh for choosing my manuscript SENTENCE to win the 2025 Nine Syllables Press Chapbook Contest! These poems are as much my brother’s as my own & I am thankful to everyone at Smith College for believing in them! Coming fall 2026!

Image: 9SP IG page
January 16, 2026 at 1:12 PM
Thank you, @susanlleary.bsky.social and @kathyfish.bsky.social for sharing my posts!
January 18, 2026 at 1:49 PM
January 18, 2026 at 1:48 PM