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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
    • 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

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