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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

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