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

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    • 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!
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  • Catalog of Chapbooks
  • Just waiting to hear from you . . .

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The Poets and Reviewers

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