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The Poetry Cafe

. . . 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

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