Watch online an Issue of the Poets Cafe right now!
Our very own Steve Luttrell has started a show called Poet’s Cafe. You can check out the October episode here.
This episode features Maine State Poet Laureate Betsy Sholl and musical guest Marie Moreshead.
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Summer 2009 – Tribute to Juan Gelman
The summer 2009 issue of The Café Review, guest edited by poet Paul Pines, is a tribute to the Argentinean poet Juan Gelman. Here is an excerpt from the forward written by Ilan Stavans. get a copy of this amazing issue today by becoming one of our subscribers. To view a couple of Juan Gelman’s poems that atre contained in this issue, check out excerpts under our current issue section.
” (Juan Gelman)…fits into the tradition of Latin American poetry by the relentless courage he displays to speak truth to power. Where did the Argentine experiment go wrong? How could it reach such levels of human depravity after it was generally seen as the most advanced, cosmopolitan country in the Southern Hemisphere? Time and again Gelman has pondered these questions, but he refuses to answer them. The most a poet can do is describe what he sees. In a 1980 poem about the prisoners’ loneliness, he described the protagonists as “dreaming they’re dreamed / quieted / they’ll never see other faces growing / leaning out / continued / in this sun / someday in the sun of justice.” And in his remarkable piece, “The Art of Poetry,” dated 1961, he affirms: “I’ve never been the owner of my ashes, my poems, / obscure faces write them like firing bullets at death.
Steve Luttrell is named Poet Laureate of Portland, Maine
The Café Review is pleased to announce that Publishing Editor Steve Luttrell was recently named Poet Laureate of Portland, Maine, for a two-year term. The inaugural celebration and reading was held at Portland’s St. Lawrence Arts and Community Center on June 9.
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The Cafe Review in Poets and Writers
The Cafe Review was recently featured in the May/June issue of Poets and Writers with a wonderful article by Joshua Bodwell.
Sadly, the actual article is only available in printed form (back issues can be ordered here), but there is a great multimedia presentation and photo slide show that can be viewed here and we got a fabulous mention in the editors letter which can be seen here .
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