Café Review 2014 Winter Issue
Our Winter 2014 Issue is now available featuring poetry by Dick Allen, John Blair, Karina Borowicz, Mike Bove, John F. Buckley, W. E. Butts, Danny Caine, Roger Camp, Mark DeFoe, Timothy Gillis, Raymond Hall, Leonore Hildebrandt, Peter Krok, Sydney Lea, Wesley McNair, Paul Pines, S Stephanie, Joshua Sullivan, Helene Swarts, Mimi White, Howard Winn and an interview with Charles Simic.
It also features artwork from John Angelopoulas, W. E. Butts, Katherine Doyle, S Stephanie and reviews by Megan Grumbling and Jefferson Navicky.
John Angelopoulas
John Angelopoulas: a self–taught artist whose Greek heritage has played a pivotal part in the development of his art. Influenced by the multimedia work of his uncle and mentor, Robert J. Andrews, an internationally acclaimed iconographer, Angelopoulas’ paintings combine the fantastical world of religion and mythology. A New Hampshire native, he has lived on the seacoast in Portsmouth for the past 25 years. The four paintings which appear in this issue are visual interpretations of poems written by Charles Simic.
Café Review Fall 2013 Issue
Our Fall 2013 Issue is now available featuring poetry by Dan Alter, Marcia F. Brown, Alessandro Carrera, Blanca Castellon, Sergio Badilla Castillo, David Cope, Carl Dennis, Leigh Donaldson, Patrick Doyle, Michael Estabrook, Gerald George, Myronn Hardy, Nancy Jean Hill, Petar Matovic, John McKernan, Jefferson Navicky, Marko Pogacar, Ivana Rogar, John J. Ronan, Ron Salutsky, J.B. Sisson, Victoria Surliuga, Mark Terrill, Jeffrey Thomson, and Sara Toruno-Conley.
The issue features poems translated from their original languages by Kim Addonizio, Dunja Bahtijarevic, Roger Hickin, Tomislav Kuzmanovic, Dona Massini, Anthony Mccann, Michael Palma, and Ivana Rogar.
Café Review Summer 2013 Issue
Our Summer 2013 Issue is now available featuring poetry by Thomas D. Absher, Ralph Angel, Wayne Atherton, Erika Butler, Melissa Crowe, Roger Dutton, Gibson Fay-LeBlanc, Catherine Fisher, Nadell Fishman, Gerard Grealish, Megan Grumbling, John W. Hoy, Philip Levine, Steve Luttrell, Michael Macklin, Molly McGrath, Naomi Shihab Nye, Anne Britting Oleson, Marita O’Neill, Stephen Petroff, Tim Seibles, Betsy Sholl, Martin Steingesser, Kathleen Sullivan, Kevin Sweeney, and Baron Wormser.
It also features artwork from Wayne Atherton, Ross Bacheldor, and Gabriel Faulkner-Macklin, and reviews by Michael Macklin, Sharon Olinka, and Kevin Sweeney.
This issue of The Café Review is a very special one for us and we hope for you as well. It is truly a “labor of love.” It has brought together many of Michael Macklin’s friends in a collaboration to honor his person and his passing. Michael was a tireless supporter and promoter of poetry. He was a valued member of The Café Review staff for a decade; first as reviews editor and then as poetry editor. He would always take the time to write a few words of response to many of the submissions that we rejected. He was very sensitive to people’s feelings and people (some he never met) loved him for it. Michael particularly enjoyed working with young people and would always “jump at the chance” to read to them and hear their poetry. Although he passed away too early, his legacy is firmly in place in the hearts of many.
We hope you will enjoy reading this issue and appreciate the reverence that was taken in the making of it.
Between these covers are poems for a poet.
Steve Luttrell
Summer 2013