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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

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