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