Winter Issue Release Party this Friday Night
Come join us this Friday, January 25 from 7-9pm at Jay York’s “Last Church on the Left” on 58 Wilmot Street, Portland, Maine. Bring your own booze and come listen to poetry from the new issue as well as music by Peter Albert.
Café Review 2019 Winter Issue
Our latest Winter 2019 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 Brenda Coultas, Steve Dalachinsky, David Enblom, Philip Good, Pierre Joris, Etheridge Knight, No Land, Gary Lawless, Bernadette Mayer, Elizabeth Gordon McKim, Yuko Otomo, Simon Pettet, Chath pierSath, Eero Ruuttila, Ellen Sander, Murray Shugars, Jonathan Skinner and George Wallace with artwork by Thomas Ashcraft, Ariel Auslender, Josefina Auslender, Steve Dalachinsky, No Land, Beth Leonard, Nicole Peyrafitte, Eero Ruuttila, Phil Scalia, Jonathan Skinner and John Suiter and reviews by Julie Poitras Santos, Kevin Sweeney and Luc Diggle.
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Poetry Excerpts from this Issue
At the Foot of the Valley
Theory of Continents
There are no options
It is the blue of the sky
The Cormorant
“Catch a Wolf”
January Sunday
December Sunday II
December Sunday I
Japanese Lesson
haiku etc.
Empire
Acque di Venezia
Birds of Greece
Tracks everywhere
The Bar at Saturday Zoo
a snowball that picks
Scared
Interview in the Hinterland
Locked in the Nazi Dollhouse of Death
Things You Can Live Without
Letter From China
Inventory of Nests
It is a bitch no break
Warning
Blues for a Lady in Boston
Cambodian Kids Babysitting
Playing the Tro-u
Cambodian War Veteran
Thrift Shop Blues
Caught Up in Absolute Gravitation
Maha Ghosandanda
Cedar Cigar Box
A Conversation // Speaking Through Photos
Mortality
Fin-de-Siècle America
Transient
Why Be Blue?
to arrive late (a dilemma)
a young star
Poem (So, in a matter of months)
a fool did linger
Wilderness
Reviewer Biographies
Kevin Sweeney
Kevin Sweeney: has taught at Southern Maine Community College since 1983 where he is department chair of English. He also serves as an assistant poetry editor at The Café Review. He has published poems in a variety of journals over several decades.
Julie Poitras Santos
Julie Poitras Santos: her essays have appeared in PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, The Chart, Living Maps Review, The Café Review, among others. Also a visual artist, her interests include areas where visual art and language intersect. Her artwork has been exhibited widely in the U.S. and abroad. She works as a professor in the MFA Program at Maine College of Art.
Luc Diggle
Luc Diggle: lives in Vermont. His poems have recently appeared in The Columbia Review.