Café Review 2019 Fall Maine 30th Anniversary Issue

Our latest Fall 2019 30th Anniversary 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 Maine poets Linda Aldrich, Katherine Hagopian Berry, Jim Bishop, Mike Bove, Bobby Breen, Linda Buckmaster, Dennis Camire, Bill Carpenter, Kristen Case, Kathleen Ellis, Tom Fallon, Robert Farnsworth, Gibson Fay-LeBlanc, Richard Foerster, Shirley Glubka, Terry Grasse, Gary Lawless, Valerie Lawson, Carl Little, Steve Luttrell, J. E. Mason, Rev. Joseph R. McKenna, Mark Melnicove, Kendall Merriam, Claire Millikin, Jacqueline Moore, Leslie Moore, Thomas R. Moore, Pat Murphy, Marita O’Neill, Lucia Owen, Stephen Petroff, Dawn Potter, Bruce Pratt, Gary Rainford, Patricia Smith Ranzoni, Edward J. Rielly, Kenneth Rosen, Russ Sargent, Annie Seikonia, Lee Sharkey, Betsy Sholl, Craig Sipe, Pam Burr Smith, Martin Steingesser, Kathleen Sullivan, Ellen Taylor, Richard Taylor, Jeffrey Thomson, Elizabeth Tibbetts and George V. Van Deventer. This issue features work by artists Wayne Atherton, Josefina Auslender, Dozier Bell, Robert N. Cohen, Maury Colton, Shelia Geoffrion, Roy Germon, Krista Heatley, Ed King, Jocelyn Lee, Winky Lewis, George Lloyd, Rose Marasco, Petrea Noyes, Stephen Petroff, Steve Priestley, Noriko Sakanishi, Abby Shahn, Michael Waterman, Pamela DuLong Williams, Richard Wilson, Timothy Powers Wilson, Jaime Wing, Bia Winter, J. S. Woodfish and Jay York with reviews by Jim Bishop, Jeri Theriault and Dana Wilde.
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Poetry Excerpts from this Issue
Time
Duck and Cover
Cold Begins
Granada
Tonic 4 (Thoreau)
Tonic 3 (Daphne)
In One Scenario
Making a Meal of Receding Footsteps
Self-Portrait: Connemara
Underground Railroad
Vena Cava
Easter Dinner
In the Woods
Maine Stone
Nude Piano
Burn
Fedora
Cove St. Trivia
The Regret of the Poet after sending Work to a Magazine
Scrap Memories
Rockland Lady: A Love Rap
Mrs. C. and the Social Worker
Galileo’s Middle Finger in the Museo Galileo, Florence
Making Nothing: So Much Depends
Clone
The River
Meditation on the Guitar’s Wood
A Delight and a Lament
Properties of Fracture
End of Summer
Moose in April
End Times
Outward Bound
Squander
Benny’s Home Stores Closing
Markings; Double-stitching
Red Apologia
A Scrap of Paper
Mendelssohn’s Bicycle
Lavabo
Next Spring, Or, If February Wouldn’t Pass,
Coming Home from the Far Field
All This October.
Spoiler Alert
Night Comes On
Seasonal
Christina’s World
The Little Birds Keep Singing
Metaphysics in the Time of Trump
In Dream the Human Heart Breaks Open
Dwelling
III
In the Veterans’ Home
The Deluge
Yes, We Have the Tricycle
Dancing with Bach
A Late Night Mouse
Body by the Side of the Road
My Father in Texas
Home
A walk in the woods
Entanglement
Middle Ground at Katahdin
Cat on the Wing
Three Postcards from a Walk Through the South of England
Bon Appetit!
Sunflower Apostasy*
Fit as a Fiddle
My Father’s Seed
Soul Song
No Service
Ben
Family Reunion with Browntail Moth Caterpillars
Glukopikron; Sweet-Bitter
Artist Biographies
Wayne Atherton
Josefina Auslender
Dozier Bell
Robert N. Cohen
Maury Colton
Shelia Geoffrion
Roy Germon
Krista Heatley
Ed King
Jocelyn Lee
Winky Lewis
George Lloyd
Rose Marasco
Petrea Noyes
Stephen Petroff
Steve Priestly
Noriko Sakanishi
Abby Shahn
Michael Waterman
Pamela duLong Williams
Richard Wilson
Timothy Powers Wilson
Jaime Wing
Bia Winter
John Strom
Jay York
Poet Biographies
George V. Van Deventer
Elizabeth Tibbetts
Jeffrey Thomson
Richard Taylor
Ellen M. Taylor
Kathleen Sullivan
Martin Steingesser
Pam Burr Smith
Craig Sipe
Betsy Sholl
Lee Sharkey
Annie Seikonia
Russ Sargent
Kenneth Rosen
Edward J. Rielly
Patricia Smith Ranzoni
Gary Rainford
Bruce Pratt
Dawn Potter
Stephen Petroff
Lucia Owen
Marita O’Neill
Pat Murphy
Thomas R. Moore
Leslie Moore
Jacqueline Moore
Claire Millikin
Kendall Merriam
Mark Melnicove
Rev. Joe McKenna
J.E. Mason
Steve Luttrell
Carl Little
Valerie Lawson
Gary Lawless
Terry Grasse
Shirley Glubka
Richard Foerster
Gibson Fay-LeBlanc
Robert Farnsworth
Tom Fallon
Kathleen Ellis
Kristen Case
Bill Carpenter
Dennis Camire
Linda Buckmaster
Bobby Breen
Mike Bove
Jim Bishop
Katherine Hagopian Berry

