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

  • The Reviews!
    • 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!
    • 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

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