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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

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