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

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    • The Squannacook at Dawn
    • 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
    • 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

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