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The Poetry Cafe

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

  • The Reviews!
    • Fire at the Big Top
    • 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!
    • Submit Anytime!
  • Catalog of Chapbooks
  • Just waiting to hear from you . . .

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The Poets and Reviewers

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