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

  • The Reviews!
    • Fire at the Big Top
    • The Heart of It
    • The Squannacook at Dawn
    • Inclined to Riot
    • LOAD-BEARING WALLS
    • Qasida for When I Became a Woman
    • ROUNDHOUSE CLOCK
    • Bite Marks
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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!
    • Laura E. Garrard
    • 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
    • Fire at the Big Top
    • 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

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