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

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    • 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
    • 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

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