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

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    • LOAD-BEARING WALLS
    • 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!
    • 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

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