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

  • The Reviews!
    • The Heart of It
    • The Squannacook at Dawn
    • 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
    • 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

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