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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

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