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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
    • 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!
    • 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

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