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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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The Poets and Reviewers

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