Our Summer 2025 Issue of The Café Review continues our mission of bringing Maine poetry to the world and introducing poetry from around the world to Maine.
The issue features an interview with Natalie Diaz conducted by Jefferson Navicky . As well as poetry by Alice Notley, Ed Sanders, Fred Wah, Gary Margolis, John Roche, Albert Glover, Adam Cornford, normal, Bruce Bond, Bruce Holsapple, John (Jack) Clarke, Michael Boughn, David Cope, Lucy Adkins, Cecelia Hagen and Tina Posner with artwork by Allan Bealy, Matt Blackwell, Laird Campbell, James Merrow, Joan Proudman, Noriko Sakanishi, Herman van der Hoff, Richard Wilson and Stephen Burt. Also included are reviews of Irene Mitchell’s An Overdose of Meditation, by Alex Balogh and Iana Boukova’s Notes of the Phantom Woman, by John Reinhart.
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Poetry Excerpts from this Issue
When I am working all day indoors
What if I met my divorce again
What do we do with this information?
Unearned Suffering
Unbidden dream: a melancholy evening, calm and free
Thrice-Hanged Joe
This Morning
The Toughening Pleasure of Being Booed
The Suit
The Plastic Cup I Brought Down Over the Spider
THE NIGHT MIND
THE KING OF SWING
The House That Jack Built
The Aeschylean Upsettedness of the People
THANKSGIVING DAY NOV 28 1991 MARIETTA OHIO AS THE SEASONS REVOLVE
Strange Nature
songs of a window shade
Song: 3 a.m. the dervish visits
Some Evidence
Sleeves
Seventeen
Say It: No Tenure
Rubies
Rowing to Save
Reading Yeats by Firelight
Psalm of the Black Square (after Malevich)
Orange in a Ditch
Onward. as Creeley used to sign
On Reading Alice Notley’s Homer’s Art
Nothing Further
My Sister Cuts My Hair
La Resolana
Ironing Board
Invasion
INAUGURATION’S AUGMENTED AUGURIES
INAUGURATE THIS!
How We Come To Kiss
Hour of the Ghost Dance
Holding
Head Smashed In
God
Geon*
Fogscape
Fly
Floats
Eye
Echoes of Heraclitus
Driving the Rainbow Bridge While Listening to Jack Clarke & Charlie Keil
Down in the Gulf
Dios
Confusion
Communion
CHORDS OF THE DAY
Calling on Charles & Wallace
Birthday Dreams for Andy
AUGURAL AUSPICES
At Today’s Town Meeting
At This Distance
Ash Wednesday and Lent
Another Beautiful Morning and Everything Still Waiting to Be Lived
Altered States
ALL LOVE IS LITTLE LOST


