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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
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    • 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!
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  • Catalog of Chapbooks
  • Just waiting to hear from you . . .

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The Poets and Reviewers

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