February 5 Open Poetry Reading and Book Release
Next Monday, February 5, join us at Henry’s in the Old Port @7pm for our monthly open poetry reading. We will also be having a book release
Here It Comes…. And It’s Gone
Check it out! A new book coming from our very own editor Craig Sipe. Click Here to preorder your copy (Publication date February 6, 2024) or you
Open poetry readings Nov 6!
Starting next Monday, November 6, The Café Review is back doing once-a-month open poetry readings every first Monday of the month in the
Open poetry readings are back!
Starting next Monday, October 23, The Café Review is back doing once-a-month open poetry readings in the Portland, Maine Old Port at Henrys
“BOHEMIAN SUNDAY POETRY READINGS”
Our editor Steve Luttrell will be reading at the Brick Store Museum’s Program Center auditorium in Kennebunk this Sunday, September 24, 2023
34 Years of Café Review: A Poetry Reading
Join us on Thursday April 27 at the Portland Public Library! Thursday | April 27, 20236:00pm – 7:00pmLocation: Rines Auditorium, Portland
Poetry Reading on April 20
Join us this Thursday, April 20, for a poetry reading at the Gardiner Public Library with Meghan Sterling and our very own Steve Luttrell.
Irish Voices: An Evening of Irish Poetry, Art and Music
February 25 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm $25.00 Join us for an evening celebrating the arts and the Irish influence through poetry,
Issue Release Party in New York City
Join our very own Stave Luttrell in New York City for an issue release party November 6 at Tomkins Square library!
The Café Review is accepting online poetry submissions via Submittable
We are now accepting poetry submissions online via submittable! Check out out our submissions page for more info:
The Local Buzz Reading Series Season Finale with Café Review’s Craig Sipe on May 15 via Zoom
Dear Friends,The Local Buzz Reading Series on Zoom will return for its season finale on Saturday, May 15, 2021 from 3-4 PM EST. Please
Persephone’s virtual book launch event
Please join us for our Review Editor, Megan Grumblings Persephone's virtual book launch event, on Thursday, October 15, at 7 p.m. -- on
Steve Luttrell Tonight at the virtual Williams Poetry Reading on Zoom
You are invited to join us on Wednesday, August 5, at 7:00 pm at our virtual Williams Poetry Reading on Zoom. Our featured poet will be Steve
VIRTUAL EVENT. AN ANTHOLOGY OF CONTEMPORARY RUSSIAN POETRY IN TRANSLATION
Happening now, click here: https://harriman.columbia.edu/event/virtual-event-anthology-contemporary-russian-poetry-translation to check it out.
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year from all of us at the Café Review!!
Next Friday July 5!
Join us Friday, July 5 for a free poetry reading in the garden behind the Longfellow House on Congress Street in Portland, Maine. Steve Luttrell
Café Review on 207 at 7pm tonight
Tonight at 7pm on Maine Local News Channel 6’s show 207, Steve will be talking about the Café Review and our 30 years of publication. Check
Winter Issue Release Party this Friday Night
Come join us this Friday, January 25 from 7-9pm at Jay York’s “Last Church on the Left” on 58 Wilmot Street, Portland, Maine.
Coming Soon!
Hot off the press and coming to a mailbox near you (as well as online)….
Leaf of Voices Part I: New & Known
Join our editor, Steve Luttrell, for “Leaf of Voices: Part 1: New & Known” at the Portland Public Library Saturday, January 19
Happy Holidays!
Happy Holidays from all of us at The Café Review! Looking for that last minute gift for that special someone? Buy them a subscription to the Café
Steve Luttrell at Odd Sundays
Come join Steve Luttrell and M. Travis Lane for a poetry reading on December 2 at 2pm at the Cork Wine Bar on 83 Regent Street in Fredericton for
Meet the Maine Family Living Their Version of Vanlife, Hitting the Road for a Year
Danny Louten, one of our awesome staff members, sold his house and most of his possessions to live in a van and travel all over the country with
Fall Issue Release Party — Thursday, October 25
Join us next Thursday, October 25, from 7-10pm, at Maine Craft Distilling on 123 Washington Avenue, for an evening filled with poetry and music
Poetry Reading with Steve Luttrell, Cameron Anstee and Natalie Hanna in Ottawa
O Canada! This Friday, September 28th at 7pm at Cafe Morala (734 Bank Stree, Ottawa, Ontario). Join our very own Steve Luttrell for a poetry
TEN WEEKS/TEN LEAPS A 10-Week Poetry Workshop
Need some inspiration for that next poem? Want to find some fresh ideas, movement and life in you r work? Check out the “Ten Weeks/Ten
Millay Arts & Poetry Festival
Join us this weekend at the Millay Arts & Festival in Rockland. Steve will be one of the featured poets reading. The program takes place in
Chuck Feil and Steve Luttrell to Exhibit at SugarWood – ‘Moods and Reflections on Water’
Chuck Feil, (photographer published in our 2009 Winter Issue of the Café Review) is having a show titled, ‘Moods and Reflections on
Poetry in the Longfellow Garden at the Maine Historical Society
Thank you to everyone who came out to hear staff members Steve Luttrell and Jefferson Navicky with fellows poets Annie Seikona and Gary Lawless
Poetry in the Garden — This Friday Night
Join staff members Steve Luttrell and Jefferson Navicky with fellows poets Annie Seikona and Gary Lawless this Friday, July 20 from 5:30-7 in the
Martín Espada and Lauren Marie Schmidt — Poetic Voices for Social Justice: A Stonecoast Reading
Come join The Café Review in Iceland at Rauða skáldahúsið: Golden Age with Poetry Brothel
So let’s say you happen to find yourself in Iceland on July 8th around 8pm, and lets’ say, for a moment, that you are looking for an
Eat, Drink, Be Merry and Support the Café Review on May 31
We, the staff and volunteers of the Café Review, would like to invite you to join us for some live music, delicious food and craft cocktails on
Seve Luttrell to read at UPEI on May 25
Our very own Steve Luttrell will be reading at UPEI on May 25. Come by and say hello. Below is the complete UPEI press release about his upcoming
An Old Man’s Ugly Plans: Sketchbook Paintings by Andrew Abbott
Artist Andrew Abbott has been featured in more then one previous issue of The Café Review and created our Fall 2016 Issue cover. If you are a
Steve Luttrell reading at Bowery Poetry
Steve Luttrell reading at the Bowery Poetry in New York yesterday. You can check out more about Bowery Poetry and other upcoming events on their
Steve at The Bowery
From the Bowery website: Sun, 29 April 2018 // 05:30 PM Bowery Poetry, 308 Bowery, NYC (map) “Please join us for the next reading of
Placitas poet Larry Goodell book signing
If you are in Albuquerque on April 28, placitas poet Larry Goodell (Fall 2016 The Cafe Review poet) will sign “Nothing to Laugh About” in
Megan Grumbling poem in The Portland Press Herald
If you have a chance, pick up a Portland Press Herald and check out reviews editor Megan Grumbling’s poem, “Vacation”. Here is
Art opening May 3 with Spring 2018 Artist Matt Blackwell!
One of our fabulous Spring 2018 Artists, Matt Blackwell will be having an art opening with Kathi Smith at the Greenhut Gallery in Portland,
The Paper Coast by Jefferson Navicky
Check out staff member, Jefferson Navicky’s “first book of stories, The Paper Coast, that was just published by Spuyten Duyvil. The
Triangle Quarterly at Bowery Poetry: Halberstadt, Luttrell and Marchant
Venue (map) Please join us for the next reading of Triangle Quarterly–a series dedicated to exploring diverse styles and genres of poetry,
Listen to an interview with Sebastian Matthews
Check out this interview with Sebastian Matthews (who was kind enough to share some of his artwork with us in our Fall 2014 Issue) by WUNC North
Stick Man by Steve Luttrell
Another audible poem for your enjoyment.
“Catapult” by Jefferson Navicky
From the article: “This week we have a prose poem, a small story that is, by turns, absurd, humorous, and a little bit menacing. You might
TBT: OFF RADAR: Cafe Review 28 straight years of the real thing
Here’s the full Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel article from June 1 of last year highlighting our Winter 2017
Ginsberg’s voice resonates at City Lights: Release party celebrates ‘Howl’ vinyl box set
Check out the full article here: Ginsberg’s voice resonates at City Lights: Release party celebrates ‘Howl’ vinyl box set This article from The
Tonight by Steve Luttrell (an audible poem)
Trying something new with a new poem…
Happy Holidays!
Happy Holidays from all of us at The Café Review!!
Charles Bernstein at International Poetry Nights in Hong Kong and Mainland China
Poet Charles Bernstein will be joining poets Maram Al-Masri (Syria), Gabeba Baderoon (South Africa), Javier Bello (Chile), John Burnside (UK),
The Café Review release party tonight in New York City!!
Our editor Steve Luttrell is in New York!! If you are in the Big Apple, be sure to say hi to Steve at our issue release party tonight at KGB on
THRICE: POETRY WITH REBECCA MORGAN FRANK, MEGAN GRUMBLING, ROSA LANE
Please join us on October 25th at 7pm for a night of Poetry with poets from the Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance including our very own
Steve at KGB Bar in New York
For all our New York readers and fans, Steve will be at the KGB Bar November 1 for an issue release party from 7-9 for our upcoming fall
Steve Luttrell at the Cervena Barva Press Studio
IN THE CERVENA BARVA PRESS STUDIO At The Arts for the Armory Basement, Room B8 191 Highland Avenue Somerville, MA CERVENA BARVA PRESS READING
Megan Grumbling reading at THRICE
Our wonderful Reviews Editor, Megan Grumbling, will be reading with Rebecca Morgan Frank and Rosa Lane on October 25 at Longfellow Books in
Join Steve Luttrell at The Millay Arts and Poetry Festival
Join our editor, Steve Luttrell for The Millay Arts and Poetry Festival September 7-9, 2017 in Rockland, Maine. The Millay Arts and Poetry
Drew McNaughton, Interim Events Coordinator at the Scottish Poetry Library
Steve’s Scottish adventures continue. Here he is with Drew McNaughton, Interim Events Coordinator at the Scottish Poetry Library.
Reading at Blackwell Books
Our very own Steve Luttrell with our fabulous guest editor Christine De Luca at the Blackwell Books reading tonight in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Issue Release Party Press Release
This Thursday, July 20 we will be having our local (US) issue release party celebrating our Scottish Issue at Gritty’s Brew Pub here in
Poetry in the Garden
Join three inspiring Maine poets, Stephen Petroff, Lee Sharkey and our own Steve Luttrell this Friday, July 14, for a reading of their work from
Already missing our good friend, Jack Collum
Alas our good friend Jack Collom is no longer with us. For those of you who are not familiar with him or his work, here is an excerpt from the
Heathcote Williams, radical poet, playwright and actor, dies aged 75
It is with heavy heart that we share the news of our friend Heathcote Williams passing. For those who are unfamiliar with him, here is an excerpt
Comfortable Fog
Check out “A Comfortable Fog” by our editor Steve Luttrell published in this week’s Sun Journal!
Café Review Issue release party in Scotland
Join editor Steve Luttrell and guest editor, Makar Christine de Luca on Friday, 28 July 2017, 18:00 – 20:00 at Blackwell’s Bookshop in
The Café Review written about in centralmaine.com
“How most people use small literary magazines nowadays, beyond the contributors racking up more scalps for their resumes, I’m not really
2017 Maine Literary Awards
More wonderful staff news! The 2017 Maine Literary Awards are announced and two of our very own have won! For those who don’t know what the
Wayne Atherton in Maintenant 11
Check out some great artwork by our wonderful Art Editor, Wayne Atherton in the latest issue of Maintenance 11. More about the issue and how to
Fastness: A Translation from the English of Edmund Spenser
Check out this new book by Trevor Joyce, a wonderful poet who we had the great privilege of publishing in our Fall 2016 issue. Fastness is being
Lee Sharkey is a Ballymaloe International Poetry Prize Finalist
Congratulations to our Friend and frequent support, Lee Sharkey for becoming a Ballymaloe International Poetry Prize Finalist! She submitted her
Café Review Spring Issue
Coming to a mailbox and newsstand soon, it’s the Spring Issue of the Café Review! Our latest issue will feature an interview with Margaret
Pitching Poetry
Check out this great write up in hyperallergic.com: https://hyperallergic.com/370588/pitching-poetry-charles-bernsteins-essays-and-interviews/
Unemployed, Living In A Caravan — And Now, Winner Of A $165,000 Literary Prize
Poets receive gifts from unexpected places (and sometimes think they’re spam:) #poetry #gratitude #greatstories
Gary Lawless has won the prestigious Constance H. Carlson Public Humanities Prize
Long-time TCR contributor and supporter Gary Lawless has won the prestigious Constance H. Carlson Public Humanities Prize from the Maine
Queen of Cups Issue Thirty-Six featuring Megan Grumbling
Check out the latest issue of the Queen of Cups featuring poems by our Reviews Editor, Megan Grumbling. You can check out more about this
Check out our new back issues section
As we revise our website, lots of new content is being added including some of our old issues. Check out the new “Back Issues”
Editor Steve Luttrell in the Galway Advertiser
A little late, but here is an article published in the Galway Advertiser from Café Review Editor, Steve Luttrell’s journey to Ireland this
Happy New Year!!
Happy New Year from all of us at The Café Review! May your 2017 be a wonderful and amazing year!
David Meltzer 1937-2016
It is with great sadness that we learned this morning of the passing of the great poet and our friend David Meltzer. David Meltzer was born in
Shadow of the Slow Decline
Check out three poems from George Wallace’s latest book of poetry, “Shadow of the Slow Decline” coming out Spring 2017.
To Have Been There Then
Margaret Randall, one of the poets featured in our Fall 2016 issue, has a brand new book out called “TO SAVE THE WORLD and TO HAVE BEEN
Episode 51: Andrew Abbott: Psychedelic Artist
Check out this cool interview with Sean Kneese, the cover artist of our latest issue. He even mentions us the Café Review. 🙂
M Horovitz interview
Check out this wonderful interview with this great English poet! https://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=47697
On the road with The Café Review
Taken at The Parkside Lounge in The East Village , NYC by Judith Sokoloff on Sept. 25th. 2016 after a reading by Steve Luttrell
Great Weather for Media Presents: Francine Witte, Steve Luttrell
Sunday at 4 PM – 6 PM The Parkside Lounge 317 E Houston St, New York, New York 10002 “Great Weather for Media presents feature poets
Call for submissions
Attention poetry enthusiasts: If you ever thought of sending in your work, we are now reading for the 2017 season, our 28th year of continually
Poetry in the Garden
Original post by Maine Historical Society, Portland, Maine Join us for a free poetry reading in the Longfellow Garden August 4th at 5:30! Readers
Megan Grumbling @ PechaKusha
Tonight!!! Reviews Editor Megan Grumbling does her first PechaKusha, at Engine: Propelling the Creative Community in Biddeford about her new
Imminent Tribulations, new book by Kevin Sweeney
If you’re in Portland, Maine on Thursday, July 14, 2016 come to Longfellow Books and here our Editor Kevin Sweeney read from his new book,
Portland Greendrinks July 12
If you’re in the Portland, Maine area tomorrow, come join our Reviews Editor Megan Grumbling for some beer, nature and on-the-spot typed
Featured Café Review artist, Nonie O’Neill
One of The Café Reviews featured artists in our latest Irish issue is Nonie O’Neill. Artist Nonie O’Neill produces beautiful wood cut prints at
Featured Café Review artist, Liam O’Neill
Liam O’Neill is one of our featured artists in our most recent issue of #thecafereview. Check out his latest work and news here:
The brilliance of writing poetry on napkins
Brazilian poet Pedro Gabriel has always had his head in the clouds, simmering with ideas in a mix of words that, by a twist of fate, led him to
Irish issue in Kennebec Journal
Check out an awesome write up by the Kennebec Journal about our latest Irish issue!! “Everywhere you go, it seems, there are people with a
OVER THE EDGE in Galway Ireland
Check out this great little write up about our very own Steve Luttrell’s reading from our latest Irish issue that’s happening in
Old Ballerina Club
Late in January of 2016 a collection of poems by poet Sharon Olinka, a past and frequent contributor to The Cafe Review with her own poems and
TCR Reviews Editor Megan Grumbling’s poetry collection, Booker’s Point
This April sees the launch of TCR Reviews Editor Megan Grumbling’s poetry collection, Booker’s Point, Winner of the 2015 Vassar
Steve Luttrell is named Poet Laureate of Portland, Maine
The Café Review is pleased to announce that Publishing Editor Steve Luttrell was recently named Poet Laureate of Portland, Maine, for a two-year
The Cafe Review in Poets and Writers
The Cafe Review was recently featured in the May/June issue of Poets and Writers with a wonderful article by Joshua Bodwell. Sadly, the actual
Artwork
Reviews
Imagine
With Little Light and Sometimes None at All
Cove
Head of Island Beautification for the Rural Outlands
As If a Song Could Save You
Transitional Objects: Poems
Turn Up the Ocean
What Rough Beasts: Poetry/Prints
Now Do You Know Where You Are
Shifting the Silence
Drunken Man on a Bicycle
lesser case
Antique Densities: Modern Parables & Other Experiments in Short Prose
Lockdown Letters & Other Poems,
Deke Dangle Dive: Poems
Ballast
Deaf Republic
Say What You Can
Any God Will Do
Quarry
Boy on a Doorstep: New and Selected Poems
Big Little City
Night School
Debths
Candling the Eggs
Bad News, Good News, Bad News
Olio
Inquiry into Loneliness and Hourglass Studies
Float
SaveSave
The Lost Brigade
How to Survive the Coming Collapse of Civilization (and other helpful hints!)
Threnody for Joaquin Pasos & other poems
Walking Backwards
Mortal Trash
The Kerosene Singing
Story & Luck
The Penny Poet of Portsmouth
Literature for Nonhumans
by Gabriel Gudding, Ahsahta Press, 2015, 144 pages, paper, $22, ISBN: 978-1-934103-63-0 Buy the Book I was born in Chicago, “the great bovine
Bright Scythe, Selected Poems
by Tomas Tranströmer, translated by Patty Crane, Sarabande Books, 2015, 240 pages, paper, ISBN: 1941411215 Buy the Book Sweden’s great poet, the
The Truth Is We Are Perfect
by Janaka Stucky, Third Man Books, 2015, 76 pages, paper, $15.95, ISBN# 978-0-9913361-1-1 Buy this Book “The Art of Loss Is a Lost Art,” reads
Ellery Street
by David Ferry, Grolier Established Poets Series, 2015, 36 pages, $25 for the benefit of the Grolier Poetry Book Store, ISBN# 978-0-98899352-3-5
Cartographies of Scale (and Wing),
by Anca Vlasopolos, Avignon Press, 2015, 91 pages, hard $16.95/paper $8.95, ISBN# 978-0-9962920-1-6 Buy the Book Cartographies of Scale (and
From the New World, Poems 1976 –2014
by Jorie Graham, Ecco / HarperCollins Publishers, 2015, 384 pages, cloth, $29.99, ISBN 9780062315403 Buy the Book This is the heat that seeks the
Heliopause
by Heather Christle, Wesleyan University Press, 2015, 112 pages, cloth, $24.95, ISBN 978-0-8195-7529-6 Buy the Book Heather Christle’s new book,
Translations from Bark Beetle
by Jody Gladding, Milkweed Editions, 2014, 96 pages, paper, $12.40, ISBN 978-1-57131-455-0 Buy the Book We like to write on things. It’s what we
Citizen: An American Lyric
by Claudia Rankine, Graywolf Press, 2014, 169 pages, paper, ISBN: 978-1-55597-690-3 Buy the Book It is the late 1970s. Our family has recently
Gabriel: A Poem
by Edward Hirsch, Knopf Doubleday, 2014, 96 pp, hardcover and paperback, ISBN: 978-0-385-35373-1 (hardcover) and 978-0-8041-7287-5 (paperback)
No Girls No Telephones
Brittany Cavallaro and Rebecca Hazelton, Black Lawrence Press, 2014, 28 pages, paper, $8.95, ISBN: 978-1-62557-999-7 Buy this Book Probably the
Wolf Centos
by Simone Muench, Sarabande Books, 2014, 66 pages, paper, $14.95, ISBN: 978-1-936747-79-5 Buy this Book The ancient form of the cento provides a
Parallax
by Sinéad Morrissey, Carcanet Press Limited, 2013, 69 pages, paper, £9.95 ($15.56 USD), ISBN: 978-1-84777-204-6 Buy the Book Hold your finger out
Down
by Sarah Dowling, Coach House Books, 2014, 88 pages, paper, $17.95, ISBN: 9781552452981 Buy the Book Sarah Dowling’s Down ends with a process
Jesus Was a Feminist and other Poems and Same Old Story
Jesus Was a Feminist and other Poems, by Robin Merrill, Moon Pie Press, 2014, 36 pages, paper, $12, ISBN: 978-1-4951-0361-2 Buy the Book
Otherwise Unseeable
by Betsy Sholl, University of Wisconsin Press, 2014, 78 pages, paper, $16.95, ISBN: 978-0299299347 Buy the Book How can we properly cherish the
Cactus Body
by Blanca Castellon, Translation by Roger Hickin, Cold Hub Press, 2014, 44 pages, paper, NZ$19.50, ISBN: 978-0-473-26533-5 Buy the Book Blanca
The Gorgeous Nothings
by Emily Dickinson, edited by Marta Werner and Jen Bervin with a preface by Susan Howe, New Directions /Christine Burgin, 2013, hardcover, 272
Churches
by Kevin Prufer, Four Way Books, 2014, paper, 96 pages, $15.95, ISBN: 978-1-935536-43-7 Buy the Book Many of the poems in Churches, by Kevin
Chapel of Inadvertent Joy
by Jeffrey McDaniel, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2013, paper, 88 pages, $15.95, ISBN: 978-0-8229-6260-1 Buy the Book After reading his fifth
I See Hunger’s Children
Selected Poems 1962–2012, by normal, LUMMOX Press, 2013, 111 pages, paper, $15, ISBN: 978-1-929878-80-2 Buy the Book My favorite poem in this
In a Kingdom of Birds
by Ken Fontenot, Pinyon Publishing, 2012, 73 pages, paper, $15.00, ISBN: 978-1-936671-07-6 Buy the Book Can ordinary lives be written simply?
Calendars of Fire
by Lee Sharkey, Tupelo Press, 2013, 60 pages, paper, $16.95, ISBN: 978-1-936797-26-4 Buy the Book “Why do we war on each other? This is an
The Boss
by Victoria Chang. McSweeney’s Poetry Series, 2013, 64 pages, paper, $16, ISBN: 978-1-938073-58-8. Buy the Book “Her boss is somewhere where is
The Messenger
by Stephanie Pippin. University of Iowa Press, 2013, 70 pages, paper, $18, ISBN: 978 -1609381646. Buy the Book Birds of prey hold a place on the
Translations from the Flesh
by Elton Glaser, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2013, $15.95, 85 pages, paper, ISBN: 978-0-8229-6234-2. Buy the Book The first time I stumbled
As Long as Trees Last
by Hoa Nguyen, Wave Books, 2012, 69 pages, paper, ISBN: 978-1933517612. Buy the Book Next time I’ll crack more pepper also knead more cheese in
Colony Collapse Disorder
by Keith Flynn, Wings Press, 2013, $16.00, 103 pages, paper, ISBN: 978-1-60940-294-5. Buy the Book Keith Flynn is a direct heir of the Beats in
Look Back, Look Ahead: The Selected Poems of Srecko Kosovel
by Srecko Kosovel, Translated from the Slovene by Ana Jelnikar and Barbara Seigel Carlson, Ugly Duckling Presse, Brooklyn, NY, 2010, 220 pages,
The Trouble Ball
by Martin Esapda, W.W. Norton & Company, 2011, 66 pages, paper, $15.95, ISBN: 978-0-393-3456-4. Buy the Book Martin Espada is no longer a
Our Andromeda
by Brenda Shaughnessy. Copper Canyon Press, 2012, $16, paper, ISBN: 978-1-55659-410-6. Buy the Book We do artists few favors when we say, as a
Then Go On
by Mary Burger. Litmus Press, 2012, 93 pages, paper, ISBN: 978-1-933959-14-6. Buy the Book When I read the poems in Mary Burger’s Then Go On, I
Lake Studies: Meditations on Lake Champlain
by Daniel Lusk. Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, 2011, 96 pages, softcover, $14.95, ISBN: 978-0-9641856-8-5. Buy the Book From the preface of
Marengo Street: Selected Poems
by Anna Bat-Chai Wrobel. Moon Pie Press, 2012, paper, 89 pages, $12, ISBN: 978-1-4507-8777-2. Buy the Book History slips by us like exits on an
Aftermath
by Sandra M. Gilbert. W.W. Norton & Company, 2011, 160 pages, hardcover, $24.95, ISBN: 978-0-393-08112-1. Buy the Book I have to admit, when
Heavenly Questions
by Gjertrud Schnackenberg, Winner of the 2011 Griffin Poetry Prize, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux Paperbacks, 2011, 80 pages, paper, $13, ISBN:
Little Boy Blue: A Memoir in Verse
by Gray Jacobik, Laurel Books, CavanKerry Press, 63 pages, paper, $16, ISBN: 978 – 933880 – 22 – 8 Buy the Book The art of being a parent is
Fabric
by Richard Froude, Horse Less Press, 2011, 120 pages, paper, $15.00, ISBN: 978-0-982989-60-9 Buy the Book “Yesterday, aged 29, I bought a
Happy Life
by David Budbill, Copper Canyon Press, 2011, 119 pages, $16.00, ISBN: 978-1-55659-374-1 Buy the Book It seems that the title of David Budbill’s
One With Others
by C.D. Wright, Copper Canyon, 2010, 168 pages, paper, $18.00, ISBN: 978–1–55659–388–8 Buy the Book C.D. Wright’s One
A City of Angels and How to Carve an Angel
A City of Angels, by Ben Mazer, Cy Gist Press, 2011, 36 pages, chapbook, $9 How to Carve an Angel, by Peter Fulton, The Seventh Quarry Poetry
Impenitent Notes
by Baron Wormser, CavanKerry Press, 2010, 87 pages, $16.00, ISBN: 978–933880–23–5 Buy the Book I first encountered Baron
Bathsheba Transatlantic
by Sarah Wetzel, Anhinga Press, 2010, 98 pages, paper, $17.00, ISBN: 978–1–934695–21–0 Buy the Book Reading the cover of
Almost A Remembrance: The Selected Shorter Poems of Jack McCarthy
Moon Pie Press, 2011, 75 pages, $10.00, ISBN: 978–1–4507–0741–1 Buy the Book If you’ve ever heard one of Jack McCarthy’s
Farang
by Peter Blair, Autumn House Press, 2009, 64 pages, paper, $14.95, ISBN: 978–1–932870–34–3 Buy the Book “Farang,” we
Shahid Reads His Own Palm
by Reginald Dwayne Betts, 2009 Beatrice Hawley Award, 2010, Alice James Books, 80 pages, paper, $15.95, ISBN: 978-1-882295-81-4 Buy the Book In
Transistor Rodeo
by Jon Wilkins, University of Utah Press, 2010, 69 pages, paper, $12.95, ISBN: 978-1-60781-002-5 Buy the Book note regarding the following
In The Human Zoo
by Jennifer Perrine, University of Utah Press, 2011, 88 pages, paper, $12.95, ISBN: 978-1607811442 Buy the Book note regarding the following
Tocqueville
by Khaled Mattawa, New Issues, 2010, paper, 71 pages, ISBN: 978-1-930974-90-6 Buy the Book It is with not a little irony that Khaled Mattawa, the
Tiny Sabbath
by Helene McGlauflin, Finishing Line Press, 2010, 27 pages, paper, $12.00, ISBN: 1-59924-675-9 / ISBN: 978-1-59924-675-8 Buy the Book The
Nox
by Anne Carson, New Directions, 2010, illustrated, unpaged, $29.95, ISBN: 978-0-8112-1870-2 Buy the Book Anne Carson’s beautiful book in a box
Seedlip and Sweet Apple
by Arra Lynn Ross, Milkweed Editions, 2010, 95 pages, paper, $16, ISBN: 978-1-57131-434-5 Buy the Book About a decade ago, as part of a college
Spirits in Bondage, A Cycle in Lyrics and Phantom Noise
by C.S. Lewis (as Clive Hamilton), released online by Project Gutenberg in 1999, Ebook No. 2003, http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2003. Reissued
Parable of Hide and Seek
by Chad Sweeney, Alice James Books, 2010, 88 pages, paper, $15.95, ISBN: 978-1-882295-82-1 Buy the Book If you’ve ever had the good fortune to
The Giving of Pears
by Abayomi Animashaun, Black Lawrence Press, 2010, 82 pages, paper, $14.00, ISBN: 978-0-9826364-3-5 Buy the Book The Giving of Pears is an
Snow Chairs, With A W/hole In One, How The Crimes Happened
Snow Chairs, by George V. Van Deventer, Snow Draft Press, 2009, 27 pages, paper, $6.00 With A W/hole In One: Collected Poems 1970-2010, by Ted
The Stranger Manual
by Catie Rosemurgy, Graywolf Press, 2010, 94 pages, paper, $15.00, ISBN: 978-1-55597-547-0 Buy the Book In The Stranger Manual, Catie Rosemurgy
The Lilac Thief
by Young Dawkins, Sargent Press, 2009, 48 pages, paper, $10.00, ISBN: 9780615322018 Buy the Book Reading Young Dawkins’, The Lilac Thief, feels
I Was the Jukebox
by Sandra Beasley, W.W. Norton & Company, 2010, 90 pages, hardcover, $24.95 ISBN: 978-0-393-07651-6 Buy the Book In a poem from Sandra
Black Boat Black Water Black Sand
by Dave Morrison, Moon Pie Press, 2009, 74 pages, paperback, $10.00, ISBN: 978 -1 – 61539 – 452 – 4 Buy the Book Dave Morrison
We Don’t Know We Don’t Know
by Nick Lantz, Graywolf Press, 2010, 96 pages, paperback, $15.00, ISBN: 978 -1 – 55597 – 552 – 4 Buy the Book During the years
Poppin’ Johnny: New American Poems
by George Wallace, Three Rooms Press, 2009, 116 pages, paperback, $15.00, ISBN: 978-0-9840700-2-2 Buy the Book I’ve often thought of George
Radha Says
by Reetika Vazirani, edited by Leslie McGrath and Ravi Shankar, Drunken Boat Books, 2010, 86 pages, paperback, $14.95, ISBN -13: 978 – 0
Rain Inside
by Ibrahim Nasrallah, translated by Omnia Amin and Rick London, Willimantic, CT, Curbstone Press, 2009, 120 pages, paper, $14.95, ISBN: 978 -1-
Elegy for the Floater
by Teresa Carson, CavanKerry Press, 2008, 84 pages, paper, $16, ISBN -10: 978 -1- 033880 – 07- 05 Buy the Book Suicide is never easily
The Great Hunger
by Karen Douglass, Plain View Press, 2009, 81 pages, paper, $13.46, ISBN -10: 0 – 9818731- 6 – 6 Buy the Book In her preface to her
Hearth
by Simon Pettet Talisman House Publishers, Jersey City, New Jersey, 2008, 178 pages, paper, $17.95, ISBN:
Safe Harbor: Port Veritas Poetry Anthology Volume I
ed. Nate Amadon, Moon Pie Press, 2008, 84 pages, paper, $12, ISBN: 978–1–60643–187–0 Buy the Book It is impossible for
Please
by Jericho Brown, Western Michigan University, 2008, 69 pages, paper, $14.00, ISBN–10: 1–930974–79–5 Buy the Book In the
A Darker, Sweeter String
by Lee Sharkey, Weld: Off the Grid Press, 2009, 96 pages, $15.00, ISBN–10: 0–9778429–1–6, ISBN–13:
Crucifixion in the Plaza de Armas
by Martin Espada, Smokestack Books, 2008, 66 pages, paper, $7.95, ISBN: 978–0–9554028–1–4 Buy the Book Whether the Ponce
An Apron Full of Beans: New and Selected Poems
by Sam Cornish, CavanKerry Press Ltd., 2008, 179 pages, paper, $16.00, ISBN: 978–1–933880–09–9 Purchase Book As the first
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Published Interviews
Interview with Miho Nonaka
Interview with Robert Kelly
Gerard Malanga Interview
Interview with Carl Dennis
Interview with Carl Dennis conducted by Kevin Sweeney via email on July 17, 2017 KS: Marlon Brando famously posed a question many of us have
Margaret Randall Interview
Interview with Margaret Randall conducted by Kevin Sweeney via email on January 15, 2017 KS: I loved your poem “I Like Being Old” that appeared
Martín Espada Interview
conducted by Kevin Sweeney, Martín Espada teaches at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He has received the Shelley Memorial Award and a
Kim Addonizio Interview
“Kim Addonizio: Poetry . . . Made Me Feel Less Alone” conducted by Kevin Sweeney Born in 1954, Kim Addonizio lived for most of her adult life in
Dan Gerber Interview
Six Questions for Dan Gerber (interview conducted via e-mail) Wayne Atherton: Sumac Magazine’s first Editorial Note appeared in issue three,
Gerald Locklin Interview
conducted by Kevin Sweeney via e-mail, March 2015 Gerald Locklin is a small press legend whom Charles Bukowski once called “one of the great
Wang Ping Interview
Wang Ping
A Chinese Immigrant in America Seeks to ‘Create a Wave’ and, Ultimately, a Tsunami Wang Ping, 47, is the author of several books of
Wesley McNair Interview
Interview with Wesley McNair On Personal Poems, Teaching Poetry, and Life as Maine Poet Laureate The following interview with Wesley McNair was
David Meltzer Interview
by Steve Luttrell & Timothy Gillis May 14, 2014 via telephone David Meltzer was born in Rochester, New York, & raised in Brooklyn. He
Xue Di Interview
Interview with Xue Di on the poetry of revolution, life in the United States, and the precise word The following phone and email interview with
Charles Simic Interview
Interview with Charles Simic on Teaching, Translating, and the Mystery of Writing Poetry This telephone interview with Charles Simic was
Ron Winkler Interview
German Poet Ron Winkler Magnifies the ‘Minute, Exquisite, Everyday Things’ Interview and Translation by Nancy Allison Ron Winkler is a German
Dave Haselwood Interview
conducted by: Steve Luttrell on May 15, 2012 Steve: Let’s begin with a few recollections and go from there. In an interview with someone as
Agha Shahid Ali Interview
Agha Shahid Ali: The Lost Interview Conducted by Stacey Chase This interview with the late Kashmiri – American poet Agha Shahid Ali,
Juan Gelman Interview
Dialogues with Gelman That Matter of Not Knowing While Knowing The following dialogue with Jorge Boccanera begins in the poet’s house at the end
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