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

  • The Reviews!
    • The Squannacook at Dawn
    • 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

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