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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

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