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

  • The Reviews!
    • Fire at the Big Top
    • The Heart of It
    • The Squannacook at Dawn
    • Inclined to Riot
    • LOAD-BEARING WALLS
    • Qasida for When I Became a Woman
    • ROUNDHOUSE CLOCK
    • Bite Marks
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • Fire at the Big Top
    • 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

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