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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

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