Our Spring 2026 Issue of The Café Review continues our mission of bringing Maine poetry to the world and introducing poetry from around the world to Maine.
This issue features an interview, The Radiance of Lookout Mountain: A Conversation with Tim Carrier conducted by W.J. Herbert and poetry by Tim Carrier, Jim Dunn, Betsy Sholl, Elaine Equi, Charles Stein, George Quasha, Naomi Shihab Nye, Daisy Zamora, Craig Cotter, Mitch Highfill, G. E. Schwartz, Janay Cosner, Uche Nduka, Bruce Weigl, David Constantine and Myronn Hardy. There are also reviews of Marie Howe: New and Selected Poems by Julie Poitras-Santos and Christian Barter’s book, The Ends: Poems by Carl Little. Artists highlighted include Jeremy Annear, Roger Camp, Ellen Colcord, Don Gorvett, Christopher Hadden, Adamo Macri, Roderick Pervier, Howard Skrill, Harry Stooshinoff, Akimitsu Tamawake and Kieran Tuohy.
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