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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

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