Skip to content
The Poetry Cafe

The Poetry Cafe

. . . 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 . . .

Interviews

Share this:

  • Share on X (Opens in new window) X
  • Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook
Like Loading...

C’mon in and fill your cup

Feed the kitty? Donate to the Cafe below!

And then, there were chapbooks!

Screenshot

Archives

Submitting form
Submitting form
Submitting form
Submitting form

Archives

The Poets and Reviewers

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

Make a one-time donation

Make a monthly donation

Make a yearly donation

Choose an amount

$5.00
$10.00
$25.00
$5.00
$15.00
$100.00
$5.00
$15.00
$100.00

Or enter a custom amount

$

Donations to The Cafe are appreciated!!

Your contribution is appreciated.

Your contribution is appreciated.

Donate
Donate monthly
Donate yearly
Blog at WordPress.com.
  • Subscribe Subscribed
    • The Poetry Cafe
      • Join 350 other subscribers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • The Poetry Cafe
    • Subscribe Subscribed
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Copy shortlink
    • Report this content
    • View post in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
Loading Comments...
%d