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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

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