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

  • The Reviews!
    • LOAD-BEARING WALLS
    • 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!
    • 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
    • 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

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