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. . . a meeting place where poetry chapbooks are celebrated and reviewed

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    • 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
    • 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!
    • 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 . . .

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The Poets and Reviewers

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