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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

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