Our latest Summer 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 Michael Brownstein, Andrei Codrescu, Clark Coolidge, John Godfrey, Philip Good, Ron Kolm, Gerard Malanga, Bernadette Mayer, Eileen Myles, Elinor Nauen, Alice Notley, Valery Oisteanu, Maureen Owen, Ron Padgett, Carter Ratcliff, Iris Rifkin-Gainer, Bob Rosenthal, Ed Sanders, Tom Savage, Harris Schiff, James Sherry, Joel Sloman, Sotère Torregian, Anne Waldman and Jeffrey Cyphers Wright. This issue also features artwork by Andrew Abbott, Glen Baxter, Joe Brainard, Donna Dennis, Clinton Inman, Basil King, Gerard Malanga, Michael Rothenberg, Aram Saroyan, George Schneeman and Trevor Winkfield.
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Poetry Excerpts from this Issue
The Wife of Lot
Odes to the Unlikely
Primavera
Hymn to the Lower East Side
Red Boots on Avenue A
Becoming A Clipper
Joe Brainard Drawing for Banana
The Peace Eye Vision, January 1962
Fuck You/A Magazine of the Arts
The Story of Peace Eye
My Fingerprints Left on a Book
What Time is it Where You Live ?
Whiffenpoofery
Like Planets
The Poem Writes Itself
Insolent Kindness
A Stillness in Your Future
Observatory Lights
The Fourth Wall
Friendly Fire
3 pages from “The Speak Angel Series”
CIS
All Saints’ Day
Hermit
Exterminator’s Song
Immigrant
Winning Is Everything !
The Peace Enigma of Stillness
Welcome to the Putin Archipelago
Gertrude Pain
Against the Grain
Poem
Who Is Buried in Grant’s Tomb?
I sleep on the pull out couch bed to be closer to her at night
Toaster on a tightrope
caregivers log 7.27.19
My Ukranian Grandmother
Fille de Rhizome
Tattered Bodhisattva: “ Death ! Truth ! Meaning of Life ! / Love ! Romanticism ! Loss ! Reality ! Consciousness ! ”
Scrambling for a Foothold on the Cliff of Time
Everything Must Go
The Crying God
Carnival
On The Wild Strawberry
Pi-Day
Poem
East Village Tales
Sail, Baby
Hyperion Takes a Hit
Paradise Answering Service
The Ostrich Colony
“I have so Little time to grieve” — Anne Waldman
brain fog
Ted Berrigan, poet, 1934-1983
Sharon Tate, movie star, 1943 —
Oranges and Reds
Empty Swivel
Eye Terrain
Poet Biographies
Jeffrey Cyphers Wright
Anne Waldman
Sotère Torregian
Joel Sloman
James Sherry
Harris Schiff
Tom Savage
Ed Sanders
Bob Rosenthal
Iris Rifkin-Gainer
Carter Ratcliff
Ron Padgett
Maureen Owen
Valerie Oisteanu
Alice Notley
Elinor Nauen
Eileen Myles
Bernadette Mayer
Gerard Malanga
Ron Kolm
Philip Good
John Godfrey
Clark Coolidge
Andrei Codrescu