Poems
Omnium Gatherum Quarterly: A Project of the Community of Writers: “Pokeweed” (Issue 20)
The Cortland Review: “Egg Party” (Issue 92)
The American Poetry Review: “Gentle or Not” (Vol. 51, No. 6); “Socrates with Fleas” and “Before Every Moon Was a Supermoon” (Vol. 52, No. 5, print)
Cero Magazine: “How We Love” (Issue 5, print)
The Kenyon Review: “This Is Just To Say” (September/October 2022, print)
Poetry Northwest: “Dead Horses” (Summer & Fall 2022, print)
Bennington Review: “Overripe” (Issue 10, print)
The Yale Review: “Controlled Burn”
Poetry Society of America: “Poem for My Children Born During the Sixth Extinction” and “Practical Survival Tips for Women”
Written Here and There: The Community of Writers Poetry Review 2020: “Solstice” (print)
No Tokens: “Sisters” (Issue 7, print) and “You Should Feel Bad”
Tinderbox Poetry Journal: “Plant Life” and “Brooklyn”
Breakwater Review: “Three Girls, Bridgehampton”
Bodega Magazine: “No Hunting”
Upcoming Events & Classes
Friday, February 6, 2026: New York University Creative Writing Program with Marissa Davis, Matthew Tuckner, R. A. Villanueva & Devon Walker-Figueroa
5:00pm at the NYU Lillian Vernon House
58 W 10th St, New York, NY 10003
Sunday, February 22, 2026 : Sunday Salon Reading Series
5:00pm at Von Bar
3 Bleecker St, New York, NY 10012
Thursday, March 12, 2026: Virtual Craft Talk with Asa Drake via Poet Lore and The Writer’s Center
7:00pm ET virtual event
Tuesday, March 17, 2026: Reading at Rough Draft Bar & Books with Tess Gunty, Andrew Martin, and Olivia Muenter
6:00pm at 82 John Street, Kingston, NY 12401
Wednesday, April 1, 2026: Bennington College Emerging Poets Festival with Kameryn Alexa Carter and Matthew Tuckner
7:00pm at Tishman Lecture Hall
1 College Drive, Bennington, VT 05201
Recent Past Events & Classes
Fine Arts Work Center Online: Writing Accountability Group (monthly sessions August - December 2025)
October 15, 2025 at 7pm: Four Way Books reading at Book Culture (NYC) with Isabella DeSendi, Peter Mountford & Peggy Robles-Alvarado
November 15, 2025 at 3pm: Reading at the Stockbridge Library (MA) with H. R. Webster
November 24, 2025 at 6:30pm: Reading at SUNY Purchase
Interviews, Readings & Misc.
Be Less Careful (Substack by Nancy Reddy): “you’re trading away time for inspiration”
Letras Latinas: Author Spotlight: Laura Cresté
The Slowdown: “707: Poem for My Children Born During the Sixth Extinction”
Tinderbox Poetry Journal: “Catching up with Laura Cresté”
Provincetown Independent: “Writing of the Past, for the Future”
Fine Arts Work Center: “Fellows Reading: Laura Cresté and Zeynep Özakat”
Poetry Society of America: “Laura Cresté reads her poem ‘Against Nostalgia’"
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