Café Review 2016 Spring Issue
Special Irish Issue
Our Spring 2016 Special Irish Issue is now available featuring poetry by Pat Boran, Paul Casey, Stephanie Conn, Dónall Dempsey, Theo Dorgan, Noel Duffy, Susan Millar DuMars, Michael Durack, Janice Fitzpatrick-Simmons, Órfhlaith Foyle, Mark Granier, Jack Harte, Aideen Henry, Kevin Higgins, Kevin Kiely, Brian Kirk, John Liddy, Susan Lindsay, John MacKenna, Thomas McCarthy, Afric McGlinchey, Paula Meehan, Cláir Ní Aonghusa, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Doireann Ní Ghríofa, Ciaran O’Driscoll, Seamus Ruttledge, Lorna Shaughnessy, Eileen Sheehan, Jessica Traynor, John Walsh, Adam White, Macdara Woods and Adam Wyeth with artwork from Liam O’Neill and Nonie O’Neill.
Old Ballerina Club
Late in January of 2016 a collection of poems by poet Sharon Olinka, a past and frequent contributor to The Cafe Review with her own poems and poetry book reviews, was released by Dos Madres Press. The front cover collage image and a dozen more collages that appear within the book were made by senior editor of TCR Wayne Atherton.
To order a copy of the Old Ballerina Club and to view the entire catalog of Dos Madres Press publications, go to https://www.dosmadres.com/
TCR Reviews Editor Megan Grumbling’s poetry collection, Booker’s Point
This April sees the launch of TCR Reviews Editor Megan Grumbling’s poetry collection, Booker’s Point, Winner of the 2015 Vassar Miller Prize and forthcoming from the University of North Texas Press, Booker’s Point is an oral history-inspired portrait-in-verse of an old Maine woodsman. Weaving storytelling, natural history, and the poetry of place, this collection evokes the sensibility of rural New England, meditations on home, nature, work, and elders, and, above all, the pleasures of a good story.
Pre-order Booker’s Point here!
Come help celebrate at the Booker’s Point Book Launch at SPACE Gallery,with reading, signing, and video installation, on April 6, at 7 pm!
Café Review 2016 Winter Issue
Our Winter 2016 Issue is now available featuring poetry by Steve Luria Ablon, Kim Addonizio, Peter Bradley, Fern G. Z. Carr, Douglas K. Currier, Christine De Luca, Keith Dunlap, Kathleen Ellis, George Evans translated by Zamora, Brian Evans–Jones, Megan Grumbling, Judy Kaber, Charlene Langfur, David Linebarger, Rochelle Owens, John J. Ronan, Peter Schireson, Mark Terrill, Frederick Wilbur, Margaret Young and Daisy Zamora with an interview with Kim Addonizio conducted by Kevin Sweeney.
The issue features artwork from Hafid Lalaoui, Patricia Schappler and Volker Figueredo Véliz with reviews by Anne Britting Oleson, Mark Schorr and Kristen Stake.