Poetry

Review: Up The Street Around The Corner

Cory Besskepp Cofer is well known in Southern California as a conscious poet and poetry host. His first collection of short stories take his already formidable skills and raise the bar...

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Dear Reader, I Don’t Trust You

This poem came out of my frustrations with my graduate poetry workshop, and feeling like I had to write poems to please everyone in workshop. Screw it. I wasn’t interested in writing like them. This poem is a pissed off declaration of that....

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The Night of My Ten-Year Reunion

True story. Well besides from the bottle talking to me. I didn’t go to my high school reunion for various reasons—one being that I don’t feel I’ve done anything that remarkable since I’ve graduated, and didn’t want to find out other chumps I’ve gone to high school with have. The poem stems from that....

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Things I’d Tell my 13-Year-Old Self Had I a Time Machine

Everyone’s got regrets. If you could sit down and have a conversation with yourself 15 years ago, what would you say? I thought it’d be fun to play with this idea a bit. I tried to mix enough humor with sentimentality to really make the poem seem honest....

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