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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

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