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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

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