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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

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