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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

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