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Craig Cotter

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Craig Cotter was born in 1960 in New York and has lived in California since 1986. New poems have appeared in many places, including Assaracus, Court Green, and Poetry New Zealand. Read his fourth book of poems: After Lunch with Frank O’Hara.

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  • 1955-D and 1945-S

    Reminding me of the donuts made fresh before sunrise in the wok of oil / by the 7-year-old boy on Doi Ang Kang Mountain, / Burma in the distance. …

    Issue 22 · April 2015  ·  Poetry

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    to Egg and Berry brewery, to the pack / of Czechy words I made but didn’t work / in this pink town. I’d readily go back / to your best spots, the unfired gun, that perk //

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    By Jason Warren

    And if the neap tides of my beauty / sadden him, I cannot help it: / I hang high, the waxy night light …

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    Three thousand ancestors ask how I straddle / the sea, a foot on either shore. //

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