Skip to content
The Poetry Cafe

The Poetry Cafe

. . . 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 . . .

Cafe of Unintelligible Desire

Share this:

  • Share on X (Opens in new window) X
  • Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook
Like Loading...

C’mon in and fill your cup

Feed the kitty? Donate to the Cafe below!

And then, there were chapbooks!

Screenshot

Archives

Submitting form
Submitting form
Submitting form
Submitting form

Archives

The Poets and Reviewers

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

Make a one-time donation

Make a monthly donation

Make a yearly donation

Choose an amount

$5.00
$10.00
$25.00
$5.00
$15.00
$100.00
$5.00
$15.00
$100.00

Or enter a custom amount

$

Donations to The Cafe are appreciated!!

Your contribution is appreciated.

Your contribution is appreciated.

DonateDonate monthlyDonate yearly
Blog at WordPress.com.
  • Subscribe Subscribed
    • The Poetry Cafe
      • Join 355 other subscribers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • The Poetry Cafe
    • Subscribe Subscribed
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Copy shortlink
    • Report this content
    • View post in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
 

Loading Comments...
 

    %d