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The Poetry Cafe

. . . 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
    • 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

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