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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

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