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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

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