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. . . a meeting place where poetry chapbooks are celebrated and reviewed

  • The Reviews!
    • Qasida for When I Became a Woman
    • ROUNDHOUSE CLOCK
    • That’s the very nature of Saturn
    • Song of North Mountain
    • Make Me Your Love Song
    • Landsickness
    • SIVVY
    • Taking Leave
    • Musée
    • Trail of Roots
    • The Optimist Shelters in Place
    • Dangerous Women
    • Real Rhyming Poems
    • Ghost Moose
    • Seeing Voices: Poetry in Motion
    • All Forgotten Now
    • Phoenix Song
    • Water Lessons
    • Bite Marks
    • How to Make Pancakes for a Dead Boy
    • Time’s Apprentice
    • The Stones Keep Watch
    • Music Speaks
    • Jar of Plenty
    • Keep the Singing
    • Make for Higher Ground
    • Our Lady of The Flood
    • Slow Dark Film
    • The Moment of Greatest Alienation
    • Terrain
    • Mother Want
    • There is Still Singing in the Afterlife
    • Recoveries
    • Guilty Prayer
    • The Cows
    • Hypochondria, Least Powerful of the Greek Gods
    • Grammars of Hope
    • Tears on the Glass Desert
    • Breaking
    • Postcards from the Lilac City
    • The Oriole & The Ovenbird
    • The Donkey Elegies: An Essay in Poems
    • Call My Name
    • Fossils on a Red Flag
    • MUCH
    • Selling the Family
    • The Hatchet and the Hammer
    • In September They Draw Down The Lake
    • ALL ELSE FALLS TO SHADOW
    • Atlas of Lost Places
    • Self-Portrait as a Sinking Ship
    • The Missing Ones
    • Passing Through Blue Earth
    • Self-Portraits
    • Calling the Garden from the Grave
    • Coronary Truth
    • The Strangers Burial Ground
    • Memoirs of a Witness Tree
    • Lesbian Fashion Struggles
    • Inclined to Riot
    • Birkenstock Blues
    • Reconstructed Happiness
    • Jackpot
    • Life, One Not Attached to Conditionals
    • Keep This to Yourself
    • To Those Who Were Our First Gods
    • 3arabi Song
    • Survival in Two Volumes
    • The Street Medic
    • Queer Hagiographies
    • Retracing My Steps
    • The Unexploded Ordnance Bin
    • Teaching While Black
    • [re]construction of the necromancer
    • We Are All Things
    • Split Map
    • Wolf Daughter
    • November Quilt
    • The Fire Eater
    • BOYS
    • A Nation (Imagined)
    • Bad Anatomy
    • Carry On (elegies)
    • She May Be a Saint
    • Café of Unintelligible Desire
    • THE DEAD KID POEMS
    • Word Hot
    • My Father’s Kites and Corporal Muse
    • FOOTNOTE
    • FEED
    • Refugia
    • Sublime Subliminal
    • Each Wild Thing’s Consent
  • About the Cafe!
  • The Interviews
    • Interview with John Whitney Steele
    • They Become Stars: History as Poetry
    • Alexis Rhone Fancher & Arya F. Jenkins
    • Burgi Zenhaeusern & Nancy Naomi Carlson
    • Zeina Hashem Beck and Issam Zineh
    • Diane Elayne Dees
    • FRANCINE WITTE
    • Jeff Santosuosso
  • Risa’s Updates
    • Happy Birthday, a little late …
    • Readers and Writers ALERT!
    • Catalog of Chapbooks
    • Back from AWP and Ready to Review
    • The Poetry Cafe in the Spotlight!
  • Meet the Reviewers!
    • Kubra Nazir
    • Lisa Hall Brownell
    • Ellen Miller-Mack
    • Nadja Maril
    • Mary Warren Foulk
    • Maria McLeod
    • Jennifer Saunders
    • Nikki Gonzalez
    • Lennart Lundh
    • Sharon Waller Knutson
    • Lori Green
    • Ruth Crossman
    • Deborah Bacharach
    • Christine Dooley Ellis
    • Geri Mendoza Gutwein
    • Olivia Loftis
    • Deborah Kahan Kolb
    • Meg Files
    • Charles Farmer
    • S.M. Tsai
    • Emily Mohn-Slate
    • Carmine DiBiase
    • Cheryl Caesar
    • Don Beukes
    • Sylvia Byrne Pollack
    • Nancy Knowles
    • Diane Elayne Dees
    • Bill Rector
    • Christine Orchanian Adler
    • John W. Bing
    • Elijah B Pringle, III
    • Albert DeGenova
    • Herman Sutter
    • Diane Elayne Dees
    • Randal A. Burd, Jr.
    • Risa Denenberg
    • Sam Preminger
    • Frank Jude Boccio
    • Mary Ellen Talley
    • Nancy Naomi Carlson
    • Samantha Kolber
    • Wendy DeGroat
    • Issam Zineh
    • Jen Rouse
    • Burgi Zenhaeusern
    • Arya F. Jenkins
    • Mother Want
    • Sarah Stockton
    • Jeri Frederickson
    • Siân Killingsworth
    • Jennifer Saunders
    • Linera Lucas
    • Lauren Davis
  • Meet the Presses!
    • Submit Anytime!
  • Catalog of Chapbooks
  • Just waiting to hear from you . . .

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The Poets and Reviewers

Jennifer Saunders
Heather Wyatt
Liza Porter
Sylvia Byrne Pollack
Leigh Lucas
J.M. Allen
Brittney Corrigan
Christine Orchanian Adler
Cheryl Caesar
Sam Preminger
JinJin Xu
Herman Sutter
Leslie Clinton
Emily Paige Wilson
Lori Green
Jayne Moore Waldrop
Jennifer Stewart Miller
Rena Priest
Elliott Colla
Deborah Kahan Kolb
Diane Elayne Dees
Angela Patton
Jen Rouse
Nikki Gonzalez
Albert DeGenova
Sarah Stockton
Nickole Brown
Francine Witte
Caitlin Scarano
Jefferson Carter
Steve Henn
Frank Jude Boccio
Daniel Edward Moore
Sarah Nichols
Adam Deutsch
Ruth Crossman
Nadja Maril
Cynthia Neely
Ganzeer
Joel Peckham
Jose Hernandez Diaz
Alexis Rhone Fancher
Kerrin McCadden
Lisa Hall Brownell
Deborah Bacharach
Erica Abbott
Risa Denenberg
Michele Bombardier
Olivia Loftis
Margo Taft Stever
Amy Watkins
Peter Snow
Maria McLeod
Carmine Di Biase
Hannah Cohen
Ruelaine Stokes
KMA Sullivan
Issam Zineh
Amy Lee Heinlen
Caroline Earleywine
Rebecca Connors
Rebecca Connors
Audra Puchalski
Lennart Lundh
Lisa Dordal
Diane Moomey
Laura Cesarco Eglin
Huma Sheikh
Don Beukes
Susan Serafin Jess
Lydia Davis
Ellen Miller-Mack
Lynn Strongin
Wesley D. Gray
Geri Mendoza Gutwein
Burgi Zenhaeusern
Mary Meriam
Gina Hietpas
Chana Kraus-Friedberg
Lauren Davis
Randal Burd
Trish Hopkinson
Julia Caroline Knowlton
Jeanne Morel
Susanna Lang
Sharon Waller Knutson
Nancy Naomi Carlson
Liz Marlo
Lawrence E. Hussman
Joe Amaral
Siân Killingsworth
Matthew E. Henry
Natasha Kochicheril Moni
Tyg
Elijah B. Pringle III
Penelope Scambly Schott
Mary Warren Foulk
Yamini Pathak
Kubra Nazir
Marjorie Moorhead
Zeina Hashem Beck
Gail Martin
Jeri Theriault
LD Green
Jesi Bender
Suzanne Simmons
John W. Bing
Alison Pelegrin
Charles Farmer
Bill Rector
Christine Dooley Ellis
Jeri Frederickson
Bill Cushing
Peggy Schimmelman
Emily Mohn-Slate
Kelly Sargent
Rebecca Foust
Jennifer Mariani
Laura Schulkind
Kristin Berger
Arya F. Jenkins
John Whitney Steele
Samantha Kolber
Linera Lucas
Allison Joseph
Joan Kwan Glass
Wendy DeGroat
Hanna V. Warren
Nancy Kay Peterson
Meg Files
S.M. Tsai
Ron Scully
Morgan Galladay
Kimberly Ann Priest
Jeff Santosuosso
Amelia Diaz Ettinger
Mary Ellen Talley
Nancy Knowles
Cheryl Caesar
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