Mackenzie Kozak
poetry
forthcoming
"[a woman i know who is part-mother tells me]"
"[mother, all things are heaven or]" &
"[sister, i exhale through my own bandage]"
Colorado Review
previous publications
"magnificent height" & "[and what we have come to says, "childless"]"
On The Seawall
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​"[a woman who is part-mother tells me, if you had gotten pregnant]"
Thrush Poetry Journal
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​"[love, it is a season of trances]"
berlin lit
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"[after all this, the riddles, the deep and flowered]"
Muzzle Magazine
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"[but then there was no one way]"
The Missouri Review, Poem of the Week
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"to try tracing it now is a mistake"
Annulet: A Journal of Poetics - Issue 5
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"at the tree" & "after"
Between Paradise & Earth: Eve Poems
Orison Books
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"prayer from the bottom of the well"
jubilat - Issue 39
"sour epistolary" & "faulty worship"
Birdcoat Quarterly - Issue 8
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"prayer without crescent-shape" & "when my love is not a subcontinent"
THE BOILER - Summer 2020
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"to betray what's settled" & "over dinner"
American Poetry Journal - Issue 18.2
"after december," "postdrome," "related to or regarding an interior," & "still"
DIAGRAM - Issue 20.1
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"abandoned image"
The Journal - Issue 43.4
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"even i know enough to know"
Poetry Northwest - Summer & Fall 2019
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"cold floods" & "nights, mostly"
New South - Issue 12.1
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"currents"
Sixth Finch - Spring 2019
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"when he asks me to talk dirty"
Verse Daily - April 11, 2019
(reprinted from Denver Quarterly)
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"receding monologue"
Grist Online - Issue 12
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"clipped sacrament," "unsheltering," & "when he asks me to talk dirty"
Denver Quarterly - Vol. 52 No. 4
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"post-eden pastoral"
Columbia Journal - Issue 56
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"so daylight" & "his point of entry"
Juke Joint Magazine - January 2018
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"hover"
Boston Review - October 2017
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"lexicon as i am owning up"
Cosmonauts Avenue - September 2017
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"once formed" & "departure"
Thrush Poetry Journal - September 2017
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"moonmilk" & "tracing lake superior"
Prelude - April 2017
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"to an ex-landlord"
jubilat - issue 30
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"figure #2"
Sixth Finch - Fall 2016
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