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Laura Creste

Laura Cresté is the author of You Should Feel Bad (Poetry Society of America, 2020), winner of a 2019 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship. A 2021–22 writing fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Cresté has poems in and forthcoming from The American Poetry ReviewThe Yale Review’s Poem of the Week series, Bennington ReviewPoetry Northwest, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from New York University.

Poetry

Sept/Oct 2022

This Is Just To Say

By Laura Creste

William Eric Williams, son of the poet-doctor, was my pediatrician until I was four and he died. He gave me a chicken pox shot and a sticker for being brave […]