Our latest Fall 2022 Issue of The Café Review continues our mission to bring Maine poetry to the world and poetry from around the world to Maine featuring poetry by Paul Balfe, Polly Buckingham, Elliot Cardinaux, John Brandi, Jim Daniels, Luis Garcia, Tinker Greene, Robert Hogg, Zebulon Huset, Ron Lauderbach, Greg McBride, Arthur McMaster, Gary Mesick, Harry Nudel, Tom Pickard, Lucas Pingel, Claire Scott, George Searles, Ivan Štrpka translated by James Sutherland–Smith, Maria Surrichio and Richard Taylor. This issue features work by artists Phil Bliss, Jim Bliss, Kate Burgau, Julia Lillard, Leslie Moore, Amy Nelder, Leo Rumerstorfer, Clyde Semler and Karla Van Vliet with reviews by Amanda Dettmann, Carl Little and Craig Sipe.
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Poetry Excerpts from this Issue
Cloud Pavilion
No One
A Road Once Taken
After Thought
Blue Haze
Looking For Eugene
Nocturne
One Nite Only: Free Beer & Chicken
Cultural Differences
Advice to the Unborn
On Why She Just Won’t Do
So Rare
My Ideal Reading Experience
The Poet-Laureate of Sussex County
Monsters
The Sky And All Of Its Terror
Spinning Out
A Clear Communion
Had Ophelia known
The Lovers
Brighton-Labor Day 2015
Walking to Another Life
The Dance
Full Circle
I was in love and . . . . . . .
Oxford Odyssey
Memory, Sadness Said
Sure, I’ve Seen God
Refugees
In the Midst of Silence
Speech Like Spinning on a Sunny Afternoon
A Statue of Someone’s Father or Son
Bioluminescent Creatures
Old as the Hills
Without
Trapped
Chicago Winter 2018
The Leveling
Today
Baudelaire
My Vermont
Washed Rind
a walk in winter a walk in winter
