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Koss

Koss (she/they/them) is a queer mixed-race poet, writer, and artist with publications in Chiron Review, Michigan Quarterly (Mixtapes), Cincinnati Review (miCro), Spillway, diode, Five Points, Spoon River Poetry Review, MoonPark Review, Gone Lawn, Anti-Heroin Chic, San Pedro River Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Bending Genres, Prelude Magazine, and many others. Anthologies include Get Bent, Beyond the Frame, and Punk. They’ve received numerous award nominations and won the Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry contest. Find links to their work at: https://koss-works.com. Connect on Twitter @Koss51209969.


Koss
Illustration courtesy of the author

Books

Dancing Backwards Towards Pluperfect

Publication Date:

fall 2024

Dancing Backwards Towards Pluperfect is a poetic assemblage of a life sown outside the predictability of middle-class, straight America, one where the aftermath of repeated trauma and loss is allayed by unexpected moments of connection, empathy, and love.


Koss pens inventive textual routes through life transits, forging head-on through the debris with unflinching vision and grit in a timbre that shifts from existential dread to dark comedy. Part dirge and part survival story, Dancing Backwards transmutes the rubble of trauma, abandonment, grief, and suicide loss into a queer, hybrid elixir, their lived story worthy of telling.


This collection of poems is for trauma and suicide survivors, grievers, straight and queer people alike, and anyone interested in how one navigates chaos, loss, and victimization through memoir and poetry writing.

Dancing Backwards Towards Pluperfect

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