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

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