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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

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