Calling from the Slopes by Kent Kosack | United in our descent.

I have a very short little essay up today over @short-reads.org
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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...

I have some very short essays/stories out today in @farewelltransmiss.bsky.social
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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...

Issue No. 7 of The Argyle is now LIVE!!!

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I have a new little poem popping up in the discussion board @somewordslit.bsky.social

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Listing — Sef

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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 ...

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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…

ICYMI — last week @ minor lits ...

— @kentkosack.bsky.social on reading and vision

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— an extract from KESHED by @stuhennigan.bsky.social

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— new fiction from @farsouthproject.bsky.social

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Kent Kosack - Being Towards — Magazine1

New story out today @magazine1.bsky.social

Love, a tandem bicycle, and Heidegger

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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…

"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

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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…

"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

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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…

"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

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I have a new short essay out today featuring a ghost, Bomarzo, and the Amsler grid

"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

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…

Right Eye, Left Eye — @kentkosack.bsky.social

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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…

Got a new little story out in the Heavy Feather Review

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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 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…

Hubble by Kent Kosack in ONE ART: a journal of poetry

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Thank you!

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 …

Let's keep the momentum going, shall we?

Here are 2 poems by @kentkosack.bsky.social live at @thearsonista.bsky.social

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Reading Rilke’s Book of Hours during the commercial break

and in the month to come ...

“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…

"A Wish for Unconsciousness" -- Thomas Hardy biblioklept.org/2025/12/28/a...

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!

Excited to be a part of this project. The novella might be my favorite form and I’ve got one in here

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…

Read "Markheim," a dark Christmas tale by Robert Louis Stevenson biblioklept.org/2025/12/20/r...

Back on the writing wagon again. Got some stories and essays popping up soon

Bookshop Find merchandise for Indirect Books and L’Esprit Literary Review–collectively, 1882 Literary–here, along with back issues of L’Esprit and forthcoming titles from Indirect. 1…

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we open for submissions of fiction, essays and experimental texts for a month starting Monday* ...

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Ordered a new vacuum hose and a couple of NYRB books. Doing my duty as a consumer