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

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    • 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
    • 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

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