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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

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