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