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Koss (she/they/Aquarian)
@kossworks.bsky.social
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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
Buy my book: https://bit.ly/DANCING-BACKWARDS-TOWARDS-PLUPERFECT-PURCHASE
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Koss (she/they/Aquarian) @kossworks.bsky.social · 12d
I wrote a very short reflection about my first book's first year, partly inspired by @lumchanmfa.bsky.social's talk story updates... Please check it out if you have a moment: koss-works.com/dancing-back...
Dancing Backwards Towards Pluperfect First Birthday
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 lif…
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Thank you @roseknapp.bsky.social and @samrasnake.bsky.social ! Hope you are warm.
November 12, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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#hope, #rejectionletters, #rejection, #unrequitedlove, #poetry, #poem, #visualpoem, #visualpoetry, #erasurepoem, #erasurepoetry, #blackoutpoetry, #redactedpoetry, #literature, #writerslife, #essaywriting, #essay, #poetrycommunity
November 12, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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November 9, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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susanlleary.bsky.social
M. Cynthia Cheung ♥️

from COMMON DISASTER (Acre Books)

I absolutely love this poem!

@acrebooks.bsky.social
Still Life The backyard foxes are lean this winter, and the birds bright. Most days I can't bring myself to do anything but watch the vixen root for something. A run of good days means I'll spend hours rearranging the pantry, as if preparing to paint a Dutch still life. All that's missing is a milkmaid. Or a dead bird. My dress, wrinkled and sleeveless, is nothing like the sky. The foxes grow thinner, and I wonder whether I should feed them, though I don't really know what they eat. Nights stretch and I sleep little, but it's the days, the sun at four o'clock, that are the most difficult-when the movement of clouds appears full of peril. People once drilled holes into other people's skulls, just to let that darkness out.
November 9, 2025 at 5:46 AM
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letitia.bsky.social
“No sibling, no mother. Her / paws were dry magic beads. I touched them.”

bewitched by this poem. Feral, @jessicacuello.bsky.social
November 9, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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vespertine4.bsky.social
I’ve started reading @susanlleary.bsky.social's Dressing the Bear, and it’s nothing short of miraculous.

“Have we not all been crushed
by what shelters us?
By a sun hauled from the sky
& collapsed into rubies, my brother
carrying the wreck of it
in his hands.”
November 9, 2025 at 8:38 AM
kossworks.bsky.social
@susanlleary.bsky.social Thank you kindly!
November 9, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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#rejectionletters, #rejection, #unrequitedlove, #poetry, #poem, #visualpoem, #visualpoetry, #erasurepoem, #erasurepoetry, #blackoutpoetry, #redactedpoetry, #literature, #writerslife, #essaywriting, #essay, #poetrycommunity
November 7, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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jillkitchen.bsky.social
Next time, I'll make you CAKE! Also, can't remember if we've watched this Suzy Eddie Izzard cake bit together: www.youtube.com/watch?v=unkW...
EDDIE IZZARD - DRESS TO KILL - CAKE OR DEATH
YouTube video by Eddie Izzard
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November 7, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Happy Birthday, @majda.bsky.social !!
jillkitchen.bsky.social Jill Kitchen @jillkitchen.bsky.social · 6d
It's the marvelous @majda.bsky.social's birthday! Celebrate by purchasing her brilliant collection "In the House of Modern Upbringing for Girls" if you don't already have this beauty on your shelves! politics-prose.com/book/9798218...
The cover of Majda Gama's book of poems "In the House of Modern Upbringing for Girls"
November 7, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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dawnsteffler.bsky.social
As soon as I wrote this one, I knew where to send it. Ghost Parachute Rules! Happy reading, everyone...

Also, a big thank you goes to @erinvachon.bsky.social who jiggled loose the seed of this triptych in their prose poem webinar. Seriously, what would I do without @smokelong.bsky.social ??
November 1, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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sjane.bsky.social
all mistakes are past mistakes
collage postcard of a sculpture of a saint kneeling, with aphorism
November 6, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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sundresspub.bsky.social
We're now open for applications for our spring internship program! The editorial intern’s responsibilities may include writing press releases, composing blog posts and promotional emails, proofreading manuscripts, assembling press kits, & more! www.sundresspublications.com/openings/
Aply to Sundress Publications Editorial Internship by November 21st!
November 6, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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“Today’s poem unexpectedly merges the playfulness of anagrams with the gravitas of a terminal diagnosis — the weight of reckoning with the end of one’s life," @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social shares in episode 1388.

Read “When I learn Catastrophically " by the late Martha Silano: bit.ly/43SNIA9
A text graphic featuring a portion of the poem "When I learn Catastrophically," written by the late Martha Silano. It reads: The sky does all sorts of marvelously uncatastrophic things that winter I shimmy between science & song, between widgeons & windows, weather & its invitation to walk. Walking, which becomes my lose less, my less morsels, my lose smile while more sore looms. Sometimes I wander for hours, my mile pace over half an hour, everyone passing the lady at dusk talking to herself about looming rooms, soil lies, ire & else. Chuckling about my mileage gone down the toilet, I plant the rose of before, the oil of after. A photograph of the late poet Martha Silano. She is a middle-aged woman with long, wavy brown-grey hair and clear-rimmed glasses. She is photographed outside, with leaves/trees behind her.
November 4, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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November 4, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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sfwp.bsky.social
In @dawnsteffler.bsky.social's interview w/ @lumchanmfa.bsky.social, they tackle how the title BITTER OVER SWEET came to be, how living in Japan influenced Melissa's writing, & more over on @fracturedlit.bsky.social! buff.ly/6xvbIOc

Get BITTER OVER SWEET: buff.ly/aVGstGt
@susanschulman.bsky.social
“I believe in flash, and I especially believe in microfiction”: An Interview with Melissa Llanes Brownlee | Fractured
by Fractured Lit | Oct 31, 2025
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November 4, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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weekly talk story about my book & zoom launch w/@deeshaphilyaw.bsky.social & @avitusbcarle.bsky.social, @msmagazine.com review & my interview with @dawnsteffler.bsky.social in @fracturedlit.bsky.social...

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www.melissallanesbrownlee.com/talk-story/2...
Bitter Over Sweet Is HERE, Zoom Launch, Ms. Magazine and an Interview by Dawn Tasaka Steffler — Melissa Llanes Brownlee
IT’S FINALLY OFFICIAL!! Bitter Over Sweet is out in the world! Thank you to everyone who have been posting their pics! It makes me so happy! It’s been a long and strange and stressful journey getting...
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November 6, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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Our next four INCH authors have been selected and we can't wait to share these amazing writers with you! SUBSCRIBE to get all four issues for only $16! buff.ly/toHXblk
November 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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cbarbermd.bsky.social
A study of nearly 14 million kids in England found COVID infection—not the vaccine—carries the bigger danger: long-lasting risks of clots, heart inflammation, & immune flare-ups. Vaccine-linked issues were rare & short-term. Facts matter. 💉📊
#BlueSky #MedSky #NewsSky #SciSky #IDSky #PedsSky
Vascular and inflammatory diseases after COVID-19 infection and vaccination in children and young people in England: a retrospective, population-based cohort study using linked electronic health recor...
Children and young people have higher risks of rare vascular and inflammatory diseases up to 12 months after a first COVID-19 diagnosis and higher risk of rare myocarditis or pericarditis up to 4 week...
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November 7, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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#rejectionletters, #rejection, #unrequitedlove, #erasurepoetry, #erasurepoem, #blackoutpoem, #blackoutpoetry, #redactedpoem
November 6, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Check out @iamrabbitnow.bsky.social's gorgeous queer poetry film, The Basin...(scroll down the page). You need it, just as I did. Beautiful work, Elisa. poeticphonotheque.com/events/kbhpo...
POETRY FILMS 2025
A Stone With Moss (Original, Schtei Mit Moos), Jan Mühlethaler, Switzerland Found Poetry Trees, Dmytro Bondarchuk, Ukraine Aviary, Mary Russell, United States The Basin, Elisa Carlsen, United State…
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November 5, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Photo of Japanese maple tree with orange leaves in fall against blue sky. Text: Variant Lit open all November for poetry and prose. Free subs. We pay $10.
November 2, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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jenwithwords.bsky.social
One of my favorite (and FREE!) contests is opening soon…

Get those 100 words ready!!!
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welkinprize.bsky.social The Welkin Writing Prize @welkinprize.bsky.social · 12d
**ATTENTION WRITERS** This is your ONE MONTH warning. Entires open for the #WelkinWritingPrize 2026 on the 1st Dec. 100 words. Rolling subs. Free entry. Publication for shortlistees. Prizes for top 5.
THE WELKIN MINI. For micros up to 100 words. Free to enter. Deadline = 2nd January 2026. 1st prize = £75, 2nd prize = £40, 3rd prize = £25, HC = £10.
November 2, 2025 at 3:12 AM
kossworks.bsky.social
And thank you @samrasnake.bsky.social. Hope you're having a good week!
November 5, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Thank you @ezhang77.bsky.social, @nathanpettigrew.bsky.social, @docsigerson.bsky.social, @rodmannix.bsky.social, @writingcommunity.bsky.social, @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social, @erinvachon.bsky.social for sharing my post!
November 5, 2025 at 1:57 PM