The Cafe Review

Our Spring 2013 Issue is available now featuring poetry by Donald Crane, Trina Gaynon,
Suzannah Gillman, Elton Glaser, Robert Herschbach, Rich Ives, John Macker, Susan H. Maurer, Peter F. Murphy, Robert Roley, Lee Sharkey, Nicholas Spengler, Nick Squadere, David Stankiewicz, Richard Taylor, Celina Villagarcia and David Wagoner. It also features artwork from Loren Kantor, Ed King, Brian O’Malley and Steven D. Stark, and reviews by Jefferson Navicky and Christopher Robley.

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our beloved late colleague, poet Michael Macklin (1949-2012)

We, at The Café Review, are planning a festschrift to our beloved late colleague, poet Michael Macklin (1949-2012) for the Summer 2013. Michael served on our staff for nearly a decade, first as reviews editor then as a poetry editor. Poets—including his former students—interested in contributing a poem or poems (up to five) written for Michael, about him, or with him in mind are asked to send their work to The Café Review, c/o Yes Books, 589 Congress Street, Portland, Maine 04101. Please include a short biography of 50 words or less with your poems and a S.A.S.E. (We are waiving the $1 reading fee for these submissions only.) E-mail submissions will not be accepted. Anyone with questions, or information to share, may contact us at portpoet@gmail.com, through our individual e-mail addresses on the Staff link, or at 207.775.3233.

For our dear friend

Our Winter 2013 Issue is available now featuring poetry by Ron Winkler, Daniel Lusk, Angela Patten, Sarah Wetzel, Richard Spilman, Tom Daley, Ulrike Almut Sandig, Nancy Allison, Judith Zander, Kevin Sweeney, Polly Giantonio, Maria DiLorenzo, David Filer, Nina Bennett, Mariela Griffor, Bill Edmondson, Bill Brown, Philip Arnold, and Ulrike Draesner. It also features artwork from Beatrice Abbott, Adeline Goldminc -Tronzo and Michael Tronzo, interview of Ron Winkler by Nancy Allison and reviews by Annie Seikonia, Bruce Spang and Christopher Hoffmann.

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Cover for the Fall 2012 Issue of the Cafe Review

Our Fall 2012 Issue is available now. Guest Edited by James Koller (Coyote Books & Coyote Journal, Otherwise) it features poetry and artwork from Joanne Kyger, Franco Beltrametti, Rita degli Esposti, Ava Darling, Duncan McNaughton, Stefan Hyner, John Gian, Dianella Bardelli, Alessandro Spinazzi, Paul Kahn, Clay Caulkins, Betta Rouse and Bertie Koller.

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For our Summer 2012 Issue we pay homage to Auerhahn Press. During its existence in San Francisco from 1958-1964, Auerhahn Press created some of the first chapbooks for many now world famous beat poets including Jack Spicer, Diane DiPrima, Philip Lamantia, Michael McClure, Philip Whalen, David Meltzer, William Everson (Brother Antoninus), and Charles Olson.

For this tribute issue we are incredibly thankful to be able to include poetry by Diane di Prima, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Donald Guravich, Dave Haselwood, Andrew Hoyem, Joanne Kyger, Philip Lamantia, Ron Loewinsohn, Michael McClure, David Meltzer, Daniel Abdal – Hayy Moore, Charles Plymell, Roxie Powell, Irving Rosenthal, Jack Spicer, Philip Whalen and John Wieners. We also have the great fortune to be able to include artwork from Bruce Conner, Robert Ronnie Branaman, Wallace Berman and Larry Keenan, Jr. Also included in this issue is an interview conducted by our chief editor, Steve Luttrell with Auerhahn Press founder, Dave Haselwood on May 15 of this year.

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Cover for the Spring 2012 Issue of the Café Review

Check out our new spring 2012 issue featuring poetry by Etel Adnan, Jake Berry, David Budhill, Barbara Siegel Carlson, Neeli Cherkovski, Ewa Chruschiel, Andrei Codrescu, Alan Elyshevitz, Jack Foley, Kimberly Cloutier Green, Norbert Hirschhorn, Amalio Madueno, Michael McClure, R.S. Mengert, Paul Nelson, Michael Lee Phillips, Ivanov Reyez, Russell Rowland, Gerd Stern, Leah Twitchell and Heathcote Williams with artwork by Stephen Burt, Orson Horchler and Amy Evans McClure.

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Cover for the Winter 2012 Issue of the Cafe Review

Check out our new winter 2012 issue featuring poetry by David Antin, Maxine Chernoff, Clark Coolidge, George Economou, Clayton Eshelman, Larry Fagin, Gerrit Lansing, Steve Luttrell, Daphne Marlatt, Thomas Meyer, Barbara Moraff, Rochelle Owens, Ron Padgett, Kenneth Rosen, Jerome Rothenberg, Hugh Seidman, Nathaniel Tarn and Diane Wakoski with artwork by Andrew Abbott and Eero Ruuttila.

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As seen in the Nov/Dec issue of Poets and Writers…

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Cafe Review 2011 Cover art by Robert Branaman

Check out our new fall 2011 issue featuring poetry by Amiri Baraka, Bill Berkson, Mei – Mei Berssenbrugge, Robert Branaman, Diane di Prima, Jonathan Greene, Jen Hofer, Hettie Jones, Ilya Kaminsky, Robert Kelly, Lewis MacAdams, Gerard Malanga, Joanna McClure, David Meltzer, Charles Plymell, George Quasha, Margaret Randall, Joe Richey, Julie Rogers, Edward Sanders, Will Staple, Charles Stein, Anne Waldman and Lewis Warsh with artwork by Robert Branaman, Harvey Bialy and Larry Keenan, Jr.

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American and Russian Issue

Our Summer Issue for 2011 is out featuring American and Russian poets. Including Bill Edmondson, Alicia Fisher, Jack Hirschman, Anselm Hollo, Kendall Merriam, Alexander Mironov, Harvey Mudd, Tom Pickard, Anzhelina Polonskaya, Aleksey Porvin among others. We are also please to showcase the work of artists Kyle Bryant, Matt Grubb and Michael Johnston and reviews about Farang, Almost A Remembrance: The Selected Shorter Poems of Jack McCarthy and Bathsheba Transatlantic done by Michael Macklin, Peter Manuel, and Zara Raab.

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