Our Fall 2026 Issue of The Café Review continues our mission of bringing Maine poetry to the world and introducing poetry from around the world to Maine.

This issue features an interview, Home Is Wherever I Am: An Interview with Leonora Simonovis conducted by Jefferson Navicky and poetry by Leonora Simonovis, Erika Gabrielsen, Jeffrey Wright, Judith Grey, Stephen Petroff, Abby Staberg, Ping Wang, Greg Masters, Yuko Otomo, Valery Oisteanu , Philip Nikolayev, Joseph Torra, Bruce Holsapple, Dan Raphael, Peter Langella and Michael Lally.

There are reviews of Laura Candler’s, Common Name: A Collection of Poems by Carl Little and Claire Millikin’s Nightlight by Katherine Hagopian Berry. Also included is artwork by Siri Beckman, Matt Blackwell, Jim Bliss, Roger Camp, Michael Cockrill, Christopher D’Amanda, Michael Dubina , Jeremy Famir, Sarah Hussein Alwassief, Lori Ortiz, David Wade and David Welker.

As always, The Café Review is an all-volunteer micro-publisher based in Portland, Maine, producing printed publications quarterly. Now, as a 501(c)(3) organization, any support you offer is tax-deductible! If you love what we do, please consider donating or subscribing. Your support keeps us going—without our patrons and subscribers, we wouldn’t exist!

As always, The Café Review is an all-volunteer micro-publisher based in Portland, Maine, producing printed publications quarterly. Now, as a 501(c)(3) organization, any support you offer is tax-deductible! If you love what we do, please consider donating or subscribing. Your support keeps us going—without our patrons and subscribers, we wouldn’t exist!