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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

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