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

  • The Reviews!
    • LOAD-BEARING WALLS
    • 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!
    • Laura E. Garrard
    • 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

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