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Steve at KGB Bar in New York

For all our New York readers and fans, Steve will be at the KGB Bar November 1 for an issue release party from 7-9 for our upcoming fall issue. Ron Kolm, David Lawton, Alberto Zayden, Amy Barone, Paul Pines, Jennifer Juneau, Simon Pettet and Jeffrey Cyphers Wright will be joining Steve for an evening filled with readings and fun. Come join us!! Check out the KGB bar event page for more info: http://kgbbar.com/calendar/events/kgb_release_party_for_the_cafe_review/

Megan Grumbling reading at THRICE

Our wonderful Reviews Editor, Megan Grumbling, will be reading with Rebecca Morgan Frank and Rosa Lane on October 25 at Longfellow Books in Portland, Maine! Come hang out and listen to some great poetry!

From the THRICE event page:

2017 Maine Literary Award-winning poets Megan Grumbling and Rosa Lane read with special guest poet Rebecca Morgan Frank at Longfellow Books in Portland.

Rebecca Morgan Frank is visiting Maine to launch her third poetry collection: Sometimes We’re All Living in a Foreign Country (Carnegie Mellon University Press). Frank’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in some of the countries most revered publications, such places as The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, New England Review. She is the co-founder and editor of the online literary magazine Memorious and currently the poet-in-residence at Brandeis University.
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Megan Grumbling‘s debut poetry collection Booker’s Point (University of North Texas Press, 2016)—an oral history-driven portrait of an old Mainer—won the 2017 Maine Book Award for Poetry. Grumbling’s work has been awarded the Poetry Foundation’s Ruth Lilly Fellowship, the Robert Frost Award, a Hawthornden Fellowship at Hawthornden Castle, Scotland, and a St. Boltoph Emerging Artist Award.
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Rosa Lane’s poem “Boats Named Women” won the 2017 Maine Book Award for Short Works Poetry. The poem appears in Lane’s collection Tiller North (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2016). Lane’s chapbook Roots and Reckonings (Granite Press, East) was published in 1980, and her work has appeared in numerous journals, including The Briar Cliff Review, Crab Orchard Review, New South, and Ploughshares. She works as an architect and divides her time between coastal Maine and the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Frank
https://rebeccamorganfrank.com/books/sometimes-were-all-living-in-a-foreign-country/

Grumbling
http://www.megangrumbling.com/bookers-point-1

Lane
http://www.rosalane.com/Tiller-North.html

Craig Cotter

Spring 2025 Cover of the Café Review

Craig Cotter: was born in 1960 in New York and has lived in California since 1986. His fourth collection of poetry, After Lunch With Frank O’Hara, is available from Chelsea Station Editions, New York. New poems have appeared in Ambit, Antigonish Review, California Quarterly, Chiron Review, Columbia Poetry Journal, Court Green, Dalhousie Review, Gay & Lesbian Review, Great Lakes Review, Hawaii Pacific Review, Hawaii Review, Los Angeles Review, and Tampa Review.

Jim Westphalen

The Fishing Shacks by Jim Westphalen

Jim Westphalen: inspired by such painters as Andrew Wyeth, Edward Hopper, and A. Hale Johnson, his photographs open like windows to a world that is rapidly disappearing before our eyes. He captures his dynamic images using a vintage 4×5 view camera adapted for digital capture. To see more of his work and for a listing of galleries and museums that exhibit his photographs, go to: www.jimwestphalenfineart.com