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. . . 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

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