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

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    • ROUNDHOUSE CLOCK
    • That’s the very nature of Saturn
    • Song of North Mountain
    • Make Me Your Love Song
    • Landsickness
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    • Taking Leave
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    • Trail of Roots
    • The Optimist Shelters in Place
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    • Real Rhyming Poems
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    • Seeing Voices: Poetry in Motion
    • All Forgotten Now
    • Phoenix Song
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    • How to Make Pancakes for a Dead Boy
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    • Music Speaks
    • Jar of Plenty
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    • Slow Dark Film
    • The Moment of Greatest Alienation
    • Terrain
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    • Recoveries
    • Guilty Prayer
    • The Cows
    • Hypochondria, Least Powerful of the Greek Gods
    • Grammars of Hope
    • Tears on the Glass Desert
    • Breaking
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    • The Oriole & The Ovenbird
    • The Donkey Elegies: An Essay in Poems
    • Call My Name
    • Fossils on a Red Flag
    • MUCH
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    • 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
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    • 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!
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  • Catalog of Chapbooks
  • Just waiting to hear from you . . .

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The Poets and Reviewers

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