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

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The Poets and Reviewers

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