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The Poetry Cafe

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

  • The Reviews!
    • Fire at the Big Top
    • The Heart of It
    • The Squannacook at Dawn
    • Inclined to Riot
    • 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
    • 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
    • Fire at the Big Top
    • 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

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