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

  • The Reviews!
    • LOAD-BEARING WALLS
    • 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!
    • 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
    • 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

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