Our latest Winter 2024 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 Bengt O Björklund, CA Conrad, Jack Foley, Lyn Hejinian, Agneta Falk Hirschman, Max Layton, Genny Lim, Michael McClure, Stelius Mormoris, Paul Muldoon, Paul Nelson, normal, Andrew Schelling, Maria Surricchio, Carol Townsend, Terence Winch, David Wyatt and Ma Yongbo. It also features artwork by Bengt O Björklund, Kate Burgau, Adam Cohn, Dean Fisher, Jeff Jacques, Karen Jelenfy, Samara Kupferberg, Ilaria Lais, John Lee, Amy Evans McClure, Amanda Case Millis, Ann Bliss Pilcher, Josephine Sacabo, Dave Wade and Jan L. Waldron with reviews by Carl Little, Jefferson Navicky and Craig Sipe.
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Poetry Excerpts from this Issue
would a church
Watchman
War
Waiting
Utopia of Attic
Two haikus
Two from the Sanskrit of Lady Vidya
Travel Brochure
This Life I’m Leaving
The Wife Admits All
The Switch
The Old Sweatshirt Speaks
The Mourner
Sonetos De Cascadia
Random Act
Poems for Bradner Gardens
Poem 14
Ode to an Old Sweatshirt
New Morning, Cedar Mesa
Mud
Man Fixing the Attic
January 18
Instead
I Miss
Herbs of the Slopes
he shows me how I am
from Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return
From Here to Gaza
for wadley
For a Scottish Minimalist at the Antonine Wall
FLEXIBLE MIND (for Rob Lewis)
Flexible Mind
Fall and Fly
Drum
Daddy-O
Cruise
Body Double
BEGINNING WITH LINES BY THE POET
Autumn Song
At the Red Pine Motel
Antechamber
and our blood will melt iron
A Cradle Made Of Gold
7. For Adelle, August 15,
