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

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    • The Heart of It
    • The Squannacook at Dawn
    • Inclined to Riot
    • LOAD-BEARING WALLS
    • Qasida for When I Became a Woman
    • ROUNDHOUSE CLOCK
    • Bite Marks
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • Fire at the Big Top
    • 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
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The Poets and Reviewers

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