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

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