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

  • The Reviews!
    • The Squannacook at Dawn
    • 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

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