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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

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