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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

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