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The Poetry Cafe

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

  • The Reviews!
    • The Heart of It
    • 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

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