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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

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