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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 . . .

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

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