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