far away null
by Sophia Kidd
a country
of structure
to hold
us
safe
in our borders
collapse
and collusion
a new
blind light
a country
of tunnels
fed by
futures
hold them
safe
beyond
their borders
No Limit
No Limit
for Dean W. Fisher
by Steve Luttrell
No limit
but the breaths
duration
as measured in
unknowns
against a backdrop
of change.
The words surge
filling the volume
of air
where syllables
dance
in confusion
crowding each other
for space.
No limit
but the breaths’
duration.
The Café Review is accepting online poetry submissions via Submittable
We are now accepting poetry submissions online via submittable! Check out out our submissions page for more info: https://www.thecafereview.com/submissions/poetry/. We will be limiting the number of submissions a month till we get a solid handle on how this new process will work and so our volunteer editors don’t get overwhelmed, so if submissions are closed at the time you try to submit your work, please try again at the beginning of the new/next month.
Thank you for your patience!
The Local Buzz Reading Series Season Finale with Café Review’s Craig Sipe on May 15 via Zoom
Dear Friends,
The Local Buzz Reading Series on Zoom will return for its season finale on Saturday, May 15, 2021 from 3-4 PM EST. Please join us for readings by poet, editor and essayist, Kathleen Sullivan and poet Craig Sipe (cafe reviews poetry and audio editor).
In order to attend the event via ZOOM, you will need to Pre-Register using the link below:
You are invited to a Zoom meeting.
When: May 15, 2021 03:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Register in advance for this meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZckf-6spzwiHtIXih6ZEe_DKaqfnIDKB-Rk
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. Barbara Kelly of Kelly’s books to go will be on hand to sell our readers books. We look forward to seeing old friends and new for our final Local Buzz event of the 2020-2021 season!
warm wishes,Marcia Brown & Linda Aldrich
Kathleen Sullivan is a grandmother, a psychotherapist, and writer who lives with her husband at the end of a long dirt road, in the middle of a forest in Freeport. Kathleen came to writing late in life. A psychotherapist for over fifty years, she noticed in her early sixties that she was so attuned to others’ stories that she was losing words for her own. To remedy that, she got an MFA in 2005 from Stonecoast in poetry. She has had poems published in the Bellevue Review, Poet Lore, Café Review, Poems from Here and in various anthologies. In 2019 she co-edited the book, “A Dangerous New World, Maine Voices on the Climate Crisis.” When Covid hit last March, she decided to keep a diary of the experience and started a blog on substack called “Covid Diaries, Process Notes of a Pandemic.” She can be found on substack at Katheensullivan.substack.com. She’s hoping to publish the entire diary as a book so that “someday, when another pandemic hits, people will have notes, will know how we coped, what we thought.”
Richard Craig Sipe grew up in Western Pennsylvania in the town of Beaver Falls where he graduated from Geneva College with a major in English. In spite of the latter, he was able to get a job, and spent the bulk of his career in the shipbuilding industry in Connecticut and Rhode Island, relocating to Maine with his wife after their retirement in 2016. He is the author of the poetry collection Lovely Dregs (Atmosphere Pres 2020). His work has appeared in numerous journals including The Maine Arts Journal, Right Hand Pointing, Iconoclast, and an upcoming issue of Spank the Carp. He is a poetry editor, and the audio editor for The Café Review. Lovely Dregs is aboutwhat is left over after the places and events of life, what remains, and what is never the same. Except that, somehow, quite oddly, it is. You can check out his website at: rcsipe.com