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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

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