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The Poetry Cafe

. . . 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

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