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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