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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

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