Kent Kosack
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I have a few short poems converging today @bulbregion.bsky.social. Many thanks to Sarp for publishing them. bulbregion.com/Three-Poems-...
Three Poems, by Kent Kosack — The Bulb Region
Three Poems — Kent Kosack As the Crow Flies Home is 364 miles away as the crow...
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I have a new short story in issue 8 of @lespritlit.bsky.social lespritliteraryreview.org/2026/04/22/m...
Modell’s
If only the team could see Luke now: Jenny naked under him, her clothing a crumpled ball on the dashboard, her body naked and trembling because it’s cold in the back of his Explorer, he feels it to…
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I have a very short little essay up today over @short-reads.org www.short-reads.org/calling-from...
Calling from the Slopes
by Kent Kosack | United in our descent.
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I have some very short essays/stories out today in @farewelltransmiss.bsky.social farewelltransmission.net/2026/03/two-...
Two Stories - Farewell Transmission
by Kent Kosack Zuidema When I was a kid, David Zuidema would pump our septic tank. Each lawn in our neighborhood had a container full of sewage buried in it. He told my mother to get my sisters to sto...
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Issue No. 7 of The Argyle is now LIVE!!! www.theargylelitmag.com
The Argyle Literary Magazine
The Argyle seeks to blur the lines between genres and strips the labels off your “little darlings,” offering an immersive experience of words and images that feeds the mind, stirs the soul, and distur...
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I have a new little poem popping up in the discussion board @somewordslit.bsky.social somewords.boards.net/thread/95/ke...
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Monthly Dispatch #32 — ft. @yanisiqbal.bsky.social Michael Templeton, @niamhmaccabe.bsky.social @farsouthproject.bsky.social @djamelbouchenaki.bsky.social @kentkosack.bsky.social @stuhennigan.bsky.social @badaude.bsky.social @raviddice.bsky.social & more ... out now: minorlits.substack.com
ALSO! Monthly Dispatch #32 — ft. @yanisiqbal.bsky.social Michael Templeton, @niamhmaccabe.bsky.social @farsouthproject.bsky.social @djamelbouchenaki.bsky.social @kentkosack.bsky.social @stuhennigan.bsky.social @badaude.bsky.social @raviddice.bsky.social + out Friday sign up: minorlits.substack.com
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ICYMI — last week @ minor lits ... — @kentkosack.bsky.social on reading and vision minorliteratures.com/2026/02/17/r... — an extract from KESHED by @stuhennigan.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2026/02/18/k... — new fiction from @farsouthproject.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2026/02/19/b...
Billy Sticks — Des Barry
Hello my name is Billy Sticks Tar baby stuck in the mud, cloying shit, time to get out from under the English oak transplanted here, 14,000 miles from home soil. Or thereabouts. I was born in the g…
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New story out today @magazine1.bsky.social Love, a tandem bicycle, and Heidegger www.magazine-1.com/kent-kosack-...
Kent Kosack - Being Towards — Magazine1
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"Tar baby stuck in the mud, cloying shit, time to get out from under the English oak transplanted here, 14,000 miles from home soil. Or thereabouts. I was born in the gutter. No, really ..." Billy Sticks — @farsouthproject.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2026/02/19/b...
Billy Sticks — Des Barry
Hello my name is Billy Sticks Tar baby stuck in the mud, cloying shit, time to get out from under the English oak transplanted here, 14,000 miles from home soil. Or thereabouts. I was born in the g…
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"Left eye: sun through the window, bare branches, a Pittsburgh December sky. Right eye: The Matisse print on the wall lopsided. Lydia Delectorskya weeping, melting." Right Eye, Left Eye — @kentkosack.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2026/02/17/r...
Right Eye, Left Eye — Kent Kosak
A Thursday night like any other. My eyes are tired but no more so than usual. I brush my teeth, undress, turn on the bedside lamp, lie down, and pick up Bomarzo. I’m 42 pages in but tonight the wor…
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"Left eye: the usual clarity minus the usual degradation of age. Right eye: a joke. A taunt. Ink running like the yolk in over-easy eggs. The technician dilates my pupils ..." Right Eye, Left Eye — @kentkosack.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2026/02/17/r...
Right Eye, Left Eye — Kent Kosak
A Thursday night like any other. My eyes are tired but no more so than usual. I brush my teeth, undress, turn on the bedside lamp, lie down, and pick up Bomarzo. I’m 42 pages in but tonight the wor…
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I have a new short essay out today featuring a ghost, Bomarzo, and the Amsler grid
minor literature[s]@minorliteratures.bsky.social · 7mo ago"The page has been my refuge since I was a kid. Words and sentences forming stories. A gateway to other worlds and minds. Self-understanding and escape ..." Right Eye, Left Eye — @kentkosack.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2026/02/17/r...
"Left eye: the usual clarity minus the usual degradation of age. Right eye: a joke. A taunt. Ink running like the yolk in over-easy eggs. The technician dilates my pupils." – @kentkosack.bsky.social
minor literature[s]@minorliteratures.bsky.social · 7mo agoRight Eye, Left Eye — @kentkosack.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2026/02/17/r...
Right Eye, Left Eye — @kentkosack.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2026/02/17/r...
Right Eye, Left Eye — Kent Kosak
A Thursday night like any other. My eyes are tired but no more so than usual. I brush my teeth, undress, turn on the bedside lamp, lie down, and pick up Bomarzo. I’m 42 pages in but tonight the wor…
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Got a new little story out in the Heavy Feather Review heavyfeatherreview.org/2026/02/16/e...
New Fiction for Bad Survivalist: “EDC” by Kent Kosack
Lesser men leave the house without sparing a second, third, or 464th thought for what they carry. Without a plan, a backup plan, a backup plan should the backup plan prove itself wanting. Not him t…
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and coming up next week ... — an essay from @kentkosack.bsky.social — an extract from KESHED by @stuhennigan.bsky.social — new fiction by @farsouthproject.bsky.social
Hubble by Kent Kosack in ONE ART: a journal of poetry oneartpoetry.com/2026/02/14/h...
Hubble by Kent Kosack
Hubble I need a Hubble telescope to take majestic pictures of your heart. Galaxies drifting away. Dying suns. A screensaver for when we’re frozen and there’s nothing left to say. * Kent Kosack is a…
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Let's keep the momentum going, shall we? Here are 2 poems by @kentkosack.bsky.social live at @thearsonista.bsky.social burninghousepress.com/2026/02/04/2...
2 poems by Kent Kosack
March Indulge yourself in a final thought as the year ends: If you leave her, the road ahead opens into a midlife reckoning. No money for the cliched convertible. The trip to Japan. Holiday shrine …
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Reading Rilke’s Book of Hours during the commercial break
"A Wish for Unconsciousness" -- Thomas Hardy biblioklept.org/2025/12/28/a...
“A Wish for Unconsciousness” — Thomas Hardy
“A Wish for Unconsciousness” by Thomas Hardy If I could but abide As a tablet on a wall, Or a hillock daisy-pied, Or a picture in a hall, And as nothing else at all, I should feel no do…
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What’s the holidays w/o a surprise? We’ve been cooking this secret project for a while. Three great writers—Max Halper, @kentkosack.bsky.social, and @johnrcpotter.bsky.social—bring you 300+ engaging pages of top-shelf storytelling w/ considerable thematic depth. Check the press website for details!
Subtle Body Press@subtlebodypress.bsky.social · 9mo agoSurprise! Our secret project, Body Lines, a novella-focused sister series to Body Shots, debuts today, with psychosexual Bildungsroman from Max Halper, epistolary fiction from @kentkosack.bsky.social, and Depression era intrigues from Pushcart & Best of the Net nominee @johnrcpotter.bsky.social!
Excited to be a part of this project. The novella might be my favorite form and I’ve got one in here
Subtle Body Press@subtlebodypress.bsky.social · 9mo agoSurprise! Our secret project, Body Lines, a novella-focused sister series to Body Shots, debuts today, with psychosexual Bildungsroman from Max Halper, epistolary fiction from @kentkosack.bsky.social, and Depression era intrigues from Pushcart & Best of the Net nominee @johnrcpotter.bsky.social!
Read "Markheim," a dark Christmas tale by Robert Louis Stevenson biblioklept.org/2025/12/20/r...
Read “Markheim,” a dark Christmas tale by Robert Louis Stevenson
“Markheim” by Robert Louis Stevenson “Yes,” said the dealer, “our windfalls are of various kinds. Some customers are ignorant, and then I touch a dividend on my superior knowledge. Some are dishone…
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Back on the writing wagon again. Got some stories and essays popping up soon
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