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

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    • The Squannacook at Dawn
    • 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
    • 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

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