
Our latest Summer 2021 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 Kifah Abdulla, Kenneth Lynn Anderson, John Baglow, Charles Bernstein, Stephen Bett, George Bowering, Elizabeth Crowell, Clifford Fyman, Carol Hamilton, Robert Hogg, Robert Kelly, Sophia Kidd, Ron Kolm, Ted Kooser, Carl Little, Steve Luttrell, Jane E. McCafferty, Kathleen McCann, Maeve McKenna, Kevin McLellan, normal, Ron Padgett, Daniel Lance Patrick, Cuthbert Pierry, Jeremy Reed, Claire Scott, Ciara Shuttleworth, Ron Silliman, Meg Smith, James Sutherland–Smith, Austin Veldman, Andrew Vogel, Jeffery Cyphers Wright, Hudson Wyatt and John Yau. Artwork by Jeffrey Ackerman, Làslò Antal, Michael Basinski, Andrew Brenza, Cornelius Browne, Ajit Chauhan, J J Cromer, Walter Crump, Alexis Duque, Alan Feltus, Lance Letscher, Sarah Milteer, Jack Montgomery, David Rooney and Alexei Yazikov with reviews by Mike Bove and Carl Little
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Poetry Excerpts from this Issue
Human Love
No Thru Traffic
A Soliloquy
Channels
Kent Johnson: How to Write an Avant-Garde Poem
19 June Berkeley
The Guy That Drives Me Here
The Lovers
A Clear Communion
She Dresses
Holding Your Flesh
Drinks with John Ashbery
Tainted Love
War Piece
Wanderers Nightsong
After Bruegel
Unfinished
Rose In A Blue Vase
After All
Dead End
A Poem Walks into a Bar
From That Way The Trains Came
I’d Like to Stay
Circus
Helpless
after a poem by Tao K’ai
End of the Road
aug /6 /1945, hiroshima
Marooned
A Toilet on a European Intercity Express
Larry of the Winter Song
Stages
MRI
Coyote, Moving
Fossils
Intensive Care
Head Full of Feathers
Craft
The Sex Life Of A Writer
Drunken Tanka
O Pin Yin Sonnet (28)
The Philosopher (3)
Going Home
Some Summer Night, Ten Years from Now
Les Fleurs de Nuit
Dalliance with a Dervish
Enward
Silver Sunset
Resting Face
if moral development
far away null
No Limit
Poet Biographies
John Yau
Hudson Wyatt
Jeffery Cyphers Wright
Andrew Vogel
Austin Veldman
James Sutherland-Smith
Meg Smith
Ron Silliman
Ciara Shuttleworth
Claire Scott
Jeremy Reed
Cuthbert Pierry
Daniel Lance Patrick
Ron Padgett
normal
Kevin McLellan
Maeve McKenna
Kathleen McCann
Jane E. McCafferty
Steve Luttrell
Carl Little
Ted Kooser
Ron Kolm
Sophia Kidd
Robert Kelly
Robert Hogg
Carol Hamilton
Clifford Fyman
Elizabeth Crowell
George Bowering
Stephen Bett
Charles Bernstein
John Baglow
Kenneth Lynn Anderson

