Café Review 2020 Spring Issue
Our latest Spring 2020 Issue of The Café Review continues our mission to bring Maine poetry to the world and poetry from around the world to Maine featuring poetry by Charles Cantrell, Neeli Cherkovski, Michael Estabrook, Volha Hapeyeva, Jared Harél, Elisabeth Harrahy, Robert Hogg, Michael Horovitz, Paul Marion, Catfish McDaris, normal, Hilton Obenzinger, Wang Ping, Anele Rubin, Sarah Sarai, Christopher Seid, Ellen M. Taylor, Richard Tillinghast, John J. Trause and Vanessa Vie. This issue features work by artists Joseph H. Azar, Steven DaLuz, Julie K. Gray, Sam Guay, Michael Kostiuk, Christopher O’Connor and Tom Rosenow with reviews by Carl Little, John Reinhart and Craig Sipe.
As always, we are an all volunteer micro-pub producing printed publications quarterly from Portland, Maine. If you love our issues and work here online, support us by donating or subscribing. Without our subscribers, we would not exist!
Poetry Excerpts from this Issue
The Fall of Icarus
Menses on an Eiderdown
It’s a Long Way To Go To Paint a Chicken (A Pastoral Poem)
The American Poet Ezra Pound Recommends Peanut-Butter to His Italian Friends
from The Loom
the lopsided nature of this hut
Excerpt from Catalogue d’oiseaux
Dawn Poem
And My Dog
Coleridge Was a Libra Too
Art Bell
My friend is beaten in the room next door
Pea Soup
Shelter
Catching Bees
Fireflies
Old House
Spider and the Sun
Modus operandi
Gone South
Song for the Song of the Cedar Waxwings
Contemplating the K-T (Mass Extinction #5) new poem?
Oiseau Triste
wing words
sourcing
nostos and not
where are you?
Undressed
Primitive
Song of the Wagons
Song for Pia
Pillows, Bubbles, Poodle
Scar
Sketch of a poem ending with lines by Robert Duncan
Sketch of an unwritten poem on the life & times of the poet
Body Lies
Collector
Carry On
Valleys of Cape Breton
Over from the Start
each stroke each breth nu beginning
is ths a dreem he askd me
our dishes dsapeerd aftr we ate
n th goldn lite ths morning
Asparagus
Lecture on Nothing
How to Survive the Coming Collapse of Civilization (and other helpful hints!)
Threnody for Joaquin Pasos & other poems
Artist Biographies
Poet Biographies
Reviewer Biographies
Craig Sipe
Craig Sipe: lives on Orr’s Island, Maine. He is author of the book Hero Sandwich. His recent work has appeared in the Maine Arts Review, Goose River Anthology, Good Fat Poetry Zine, The Café Review, and Right Hand Pointing. He is a poetry editor and the audio editor of The Café Review.
John Reinhart
John Reinhart: an arsonist by trade, John Reinhart was awarded a Dark Poetry Scholarship by the Horror Writers Association, maintains a membership with the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association, and cavorts with demons in full daylight. The author of seven poetry collections, his work has been published internationally and in various anthologies on themes ranging from zombies to Christianity, Judaism to climate, children to fire. Find him on social media and hiding under large rocks.
Carl Little
Carl Little: his poetry has been featured in Maine Sunday Telegram’s “Deep Water” series and “Poems from Here” on Maine Public Radio and appears in the anthology Local News: Poetry about Small Towns (2019) and Maine Coast Heritage Trust’s 50th anniversary publication “Voices from the Coast.”