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
Buy my book: https://bit.ly/DANCING-BACKWARDS-TOWARDS-PLUPERFECT-PURCHASE
Website: https://koss-works.com
Buy my book: https://bit.ly/DANCING-BACKWARDS-TOWARDS-PLUPERFECT-PURCHASE
#hope, #rejectionletters, #rejection, #unrequitedlove, #poetry, #poem, #visualpoem, #visualpoetry, #erasurepoem, #erasurepoetry, #blackoutpoetry, #redactedpoetry, #literature, #writerslife, #essaywriting, #essay, #poetrycommunity
November 12, 2025 at 6:09 PM
#rejectionletters, #rejection, #unrequitedlove, #poetry, #poem, #visualpoem, #visualpoetry, #erasurepoem, #erasurepoetry, #blackoutpoetry, #redactedpoetry, #literature, #writerslife, #essaywriting, #essay, #poetrycommunity
November 7, 2025 at 6:30 PM
#rejectionletters, #rejection, #unrequitedlove, #erasurepoetry, #erasurepoem, #blackoutpoem, #blackoutpoetry, #redactedpoem
November 6, 2025 at 5:10 PM
If you're on the fence about buying my hybrid collection from @diodeeditions.bsky.social, check out @erinvachon.bsky.social 's fabulous review in @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social
. Note you can purchase on my site or thru Diode! moistpoetryjournal.com/2025/02/25/a...
. Note you can purchase on my site or thru Diode! moistpoetryjournal.com/2025/02/25/a...
November 4, 2025 at 2:08 PM
If you're on the fence about buying my hybrid collection from @diodeeditions.bsky.social, check out @erinvachon.bsky.social 's fabulous review in @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social
. Note you can purchase on my site or thru Diode! moistpoetryjournal.com/2025/02/25/a...
. Note you can purchase on my site or thru Diode! moistpoetryjournal.com/2025/02/25/a...
Today is my books one-year birthday and I nearly missed it. If you haven't read it, it's a darkly funny hybrid book about grief, loss, suicide, friendship, and the shit that happens to us. Get a signed copy on my site or buy one directly from @diodeeditions.
www.diodeeditions.com/product-page...
www.diodeeditions.com/product-page...
October 30, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Today is my books one-year birthday and I nearly missed it. If you haven't read it, it's a darkly funny hybrid book about grief, loss, suicide, friendship, and the shit that happens to us. Get a signed copy on my site or buy one directly from @diodeeditions.
www.diodeeditions.com/product-page...
www.diodeeditions.com/product-page...
October 28, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Where I'm at with submitting...
#rejectionletters, #rejection, #unrequitedlove, #retirement, #passages, #selfpublishing
#rejectionletters, #rejection, #unrequitedlove, #retirement, #passages, #selfpublishing
October 27, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Where I'm at with submitting...
#rejectionletters, #rejection, #unrequitedlove, #retirement, #passages, #selfpublishing
#rejectionletters, #rejection, #unrequitedlove, #retirement, #passages, #selfpublishing
@variantlit.bsky.social wants to read my work. Shall I send something?🤠
October 21, 2025 at 4:19 PM
@variantlit.bsky.social wants to read my work. Shall I send something?🤠
last narcissism poem for now... published in San Pedro River Review.
#narcissism, #narcissisticabuse, #narcissist, #poem, #poetry, #toxicpeople
#narcissism, #narcissisticabuse, #narcissist, #poem, #poetry, #toxicpeople
October 20, 2025 at 12:34 PM
last narcissism poem for now... published in San Pedro River Review.
#narcissism, #narcissisticabuse, #narcissist, #poem, #poetry, #toxicpeople
#narcissism, #narcissisticabuse, #narcissist, #poem, #poetry, #toxicpeople
Since I'm posting narcissism poems, here is another. Kissing Dynamite published it in 2020. I can't believe how time passes. Still saddened by the way Kissing Dynamite dumped the site and broke promises to writers...
#narcissism, #narcissist, #poetry
14s
#narcissism, #narcissist, #poetry
14s
October 19, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Since I'm posting narcissism poems, here is another. Kissing Dynamite published it in 2020. I can't believe how time passes. Still saddened by the way Kissing Dynamite dumped the site and broke promises to writers...
#narcissism, #narcissist, #poetry
14s
#narcissism, #narcissist, #poetry
14s
#CW piece... Very honored by this win and pub, and thank you again, @artichokeheart.bsky.social , @oozannesay.bsky.social and Ralph Pennel.
midwayjournal.com/how-to-avoid...
Thank you @grantamag.bsky.social and @marinabenjamin.bsky.social for the great memoir workshop that birthed this.
midwayjournal.com/how-to-avoid...
Thank you @grantamag.bsky.social and @marinabenjamin.bsky.social for the great memoir workshop that birthed this.
October 17, 2025 at 1:58 PM
#CW piece... Very honored by this win and pub, and thank you again, @artichokeheart.bsky.social , @oozannesay.bsky.social and Ralph Pennel.
midwayjournal.com/how-to-avoid...
Thank you @grantamag.bsky.social and @marinabenjamin.bsky.social for the great memoir workshop that birthed this.
midwayjournal.com/how-to-avoid...
Thank you @grantamag.bsky.social and @marinabenjamin.bsky.social for the great memoir workshop that birthed this.
Check out the latest issue of Midway Journal with Contest Results (my #CW crocodile piece placed third! woohoo!) Thank you, @oozannesay.bsky.social, @artichokeheart.bsky.social and Ralph Panell, and congrats everyone who won and is in the issue! midwayjournal.com/how-to-avoid...
October 16, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Check out the latest issue of Midway Journal with Contest Results (my #CW crocodile piece placed third! woohoo!) Thank you, @oozannesay.bsky.social, @artichokeheart.bsky.social and Ralph Panell, and congrats everyone who won and is in the issue! midwayjournal.com/how-to-avoid...
October 15, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Elegy for Jennifer Martelli
October 14, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Elegy for Jennifer Martelli
Requiem: This Is Where My Childhood Dog is Buried
#pencil, #digitalart, #abstractart, #griefart, #doglover, #requiem, #remembrance
#pencil, #digitalart, #abstractart, #griefart, #doglover, #requiem, #remembrance
October 13, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Requiem: This Is Where My Childhood Dog is Buried
#pencil, #digitalart, #abstractart, #griefart, #doglover, #requiem, #remembrance
#pencil, #digitalart, #abstractart, #griefart, #doglover, #requiem, #remembrance
October 11, 2025 at 9:11 PM
October 7, 2025 at 7:30 PM
#wutheringheights, #emilybronte, #erasurepoem, #erasurepoetry, #blackoutpoetry, #penandinkartist, #inkdrawing, #quillpen, #ink
Thanks, @beavermagazine for publishing this
Thanks, @beavermagazine for publishing this
October 5, 2025 at 8:31 PM
#wutheringheights, #emilybronte, #erasurepoem, #erasurepoetry, #blackoutpoetry, #penandinkartist, #inkdrawing, #quillpen, #ink
Thanks, @beavermagazine for publishing this
Thanks, @beavermagazine for publishing this
Dirge
#drawing, #pencil, #art
Am going ahead with an archival print project this winter. If you see any images, asemic, drawn, or erasure here or on my Insta or website you would like a print of, please send me a DM. I'm thinking I'll sell them for 25-50, depending on the size.
#drawing, #pencil, #art
Am going ahead with an archival print project this winter. If you see any images, asemic, drawn, or erasure here or on my Insta or website you would like a print of, please send me a DM. I'm thinking I'll sell them for 25-50, depending on the size.
October 2, 2025 at 3:38 PM
#wutheringheights, #emilybronte, #erasurepoem, #erasurepoetry, #blackoutpoetry, #inkdrawing, #inksketch, #poem, #poetry
Thank you, @sageciggs.bsky.social and editors for publishing this a couple years ago!
Thank you, @sageciggs.bsky.social and editors for publishing this a couple years ago!
October 1, 2025 at 2:34 PM
#wutheringheights, #emilybronte, #erasurepoem, #erasurepoetry, #blackoutpoetry, #inkdrawing, #inksketch, #poem, #poetry
Thank you, @sageciggs.bsky.social and editors for publishing this a couple years ago!
Thank you, @sageciggs.bsky.social and editors for publishing this a couple years ago!
Really thrilled to get a Best of the Net Nomination for this piece about my ass published in Ran Off with the Star Bassoon. Thank you Rogan and staff, and congrats and good luck everyone! Read it here: ranoffwiththestarbassoon.com/koss/
#botn, #nomination, #fiction, #microfiction, #flash
#botn, #nomination, #fiction, #microfiction, #flash
September 30, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Really thrilled to get a Best of the Net Nomination for this piece about my ass published in Ran Off with the Star Bassoon. Thank you Rogan and staff, and congrats and good luck everyone! Read it here: ranoffwiththestarbassoon.com/koss/
#botn, #nomination, #fiction, #microfiction, #flash
#botn, #nomination, #fiction, #microfiction, #flash
#wutheringheights, #erasurepoem, #erasurepoetry, #collage, #drawing, #digitalart, #bronte, #emilybronte, #blackoutpoetry, #oldbooks, #folly
September 30, 2025 at 1:45 PM
tomatoes are so photogenic
September 29, 2025 at 11:01 PM
tomatoes are so photogenic
Loving Door of Thin Skins, an amazing hybrid, experimental book by @shirad.bsky.social about a therapist who violates a client's boundaries. Beautifully made with Shira's artwork, really brilliant, still available.
#badtherapy, #badboundaries, #predator, #metoo
cavankerrypress.org/products/doo...
#badtherapy, #badboundaries, #predator, #metoo
cavankerrypress.org/products/doo...
September 27, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Loving Door of Thin Skins, an amazing hybrid, experimental book by @shirad.bsky.social about a therapist who violates a client's boundaries. Beautifully made with Shira's artwork, really brilliant, still available.
#badtherapy, #badboundaries, #predator, #metoo
cavankerrypress.org/products/doo...
#badtherapy, #badboundaries, #predator, #metoo
cavankerrypress.org/products/doo...