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

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