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

  • The Reviews!
    • 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!
    • Submit Anytime!
  • Catalog of Chapbooks
  • Just waiting to hear from you . . .

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The Poets and Reviewers

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