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

  • The Reviews!
    • 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!
    • 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 . . .

Meet the Reviewers!

Burgi Zenhaeusern

Arya F. Jenkins

Sarah Stockton

Jerri Frederickson

Siân Killingsworth

Lennart Lundh

Lauren Davis

Risa Denenberg

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The Poets and Reviewers

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