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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

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