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

  • The Reviews!
    • 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!
    • 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

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