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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

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