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

  • The Reviews!
    • Fire at the Big Top
    • The Heart of It
    • The Squannacook at Dawn
    • Inclined to Riot
    • LOAD-BEARING WALLS
    • Qasida for When I Became a Woman
    • ROUNDHOUSE CLOCK
    • Bite Marks
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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!
    • Laura E. Garrard
    • 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
    • Fire at the Big Top
    • 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

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