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The Poetry Cafe

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

  • The Reviews!
    • Fire at the Big Top
    • The Heart of It
    • The Squannacook at Dawn
    • Inclined to Riot
    • 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
    • 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
    • Fire at the Big Top
    • 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

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