Essays
Manash Bhattacharjee
Jennifer Burd
Charlotte Mandel
Carol Smallwood
Laura Grace Weldon
Everyone is a Poet
Interviews
Millicent Bórges Accardi
Millicent Bórges Accardi
Diane Lockward
Reviews
Brian Fanelli
Vicki Hudson
Steven Riel
Elizabeth Kate Switaj
Elizabeth Kate Switaj
Spring 2015
Essays
Bruce Bond
Brian Fanelli
Adam Bryant Marshall
Ann E. Michael
Rachel Danielle Peterson
Laura Weldon
Interviews
Millicent Bórges Accardi
Millicent Bórges Accardi
Arthur McMaster
Reviews
Brian Fanelli
Therése Halscheid
Charlotte Mandel
Lori A. May
Arthur McMaster
Ann E. Michael
Ann E. Michael
Lesley Wheeler
Nancy Means Wright
Sander Zulauf
Fall 2014
Reviews
Brian Fanelli
Mary Kasimor
Arthur McMaster
Ann E. Michael
Shauna Osborn
Elizabeth Kate Switaj
Lesley Wheeler
Interviews
Millicent Bórges Accardi
Georgia Jones-Davis
Essays
Michael Leong
Ann E. Michael
Laura Moe
Khadeeja Mushtaq
Summer 2014
Editor’s Note
Reviews
Brian Fanelli reviews Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting by Kevin Powers
David James reviews Feeding Wild Birds by Robert Haight
Dawn Leas reviews Errings by Peter Streckfus
Zara Raab reviews Body on the Wall by Michelle Wing
Elizabeth Kate Switaj reviews The Walmart Republic by Quraysh Ali Lansana and Christopher Stewart
Interview
Millicent Bórges Accardi Break On Through (To the Other Side) — An Interview with Poets Café’s Lois P. Jones
Essays
Joan Hanna Untangling the Roots
Rachel Danielle Peterson For People
Spring 2014
Reviews
Etch and Blur by Jamie Thomas and Ruins Assembling by Dennis Finnell
Gray Matter by Sara Michas-Martin
Imperial by George Bilgere
The Plague Doctor In His Hull-Shaped Hat by Stephen Massimilla
Seam by Tarfia Faizullah
The Silence in an Empty House by Maria Mazziotti Gillan
Essays
“The Art of Difficulty: Helping Students Approach Poetry with Confidence” by Amorak Huey
“Contentment through Metaphor: Poetry as a Creator of Myth” by John McCarthy
“Announcing: A New Book of Poetry!” by Leslie L. Nielsen
“Anger, Hatred, and Identity: Anzaldúa and Lorde’s Marginalized Bodies” by Shauna Osborn
Interviews
Q&A with Robert Manaster by Millicent Borges Accardi
Q&A with Deborah Hauser and Lynn Domina
Q&A with Nicelle Davis by Dawn Leas
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Winter 2014
Reviews
All That Remains by Brian Fanelli
Child Made of Sand by Thomas Lux
Dutiful Heart by Joy Gaines-Friedler
Orphan Hours by Stanley Plumly
Reports by Kathryn Levy
State of the Union by Susan Lewis
Waking My Mother by Angela Alaimo O’Donnell
Essays
“Roman Catholic Modalities in the Christian Poetry of Emily Dickinson” by Arthur McMaster
“Reviewing the Less-Familiar” by Ann E. Michael
“Akhmatova and Brodsky’s Use of Dissemination and Ironic Sensibilities” by Shauna Osborn
“Over 11 Ways to Revise Work You Thought Too Wonderful or Awful to Revisit Again” by David Wright
Interviews
Q&A with Lori A. May by Dawn Leas
Q&A with Joy Gaines-Friedler by Heather Lowery
Q&A with Loren Kleinman by Heather Lowery
Q&A with Sidney Wade by Arthur McMaster
Q&A with Bruce Bond by Karen Schubert
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Fall 2013
Reviews
Afloat by John Reibetanz
After the Bell by John L. Stanizzi
Aux Arcs by Shin Yu Pai
Black Aperture by Matt Rasmussen
The Branches, the Axe, the Missing by Charlotte Pence
Clangings by Steven Cramer
Gold by Barbara Crooker
The Middle by Angela Hume
No Hurry: Poems 2000-2012 by Michael Blumenthal
Paper Dreams: Writers and Editors on the American Literary Magazine edited by Travis Kurowski
Somewhere Piano by Sarah Busse
taking shots alone by Phillipe Chatelain
Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth by Warsan Shire
Tennessee Landscape with Blighted Pine by Jesse Graves
What Remains by Caroline Maun
What We Ask of Flesh by Remica L. Bingham
White Apples and the Taste of Stone by Donald Hall
Women’s Poetry: Poems and Advice by Daisy Fried
Essays
“Poetry Month in Slow Time” by Kathryn “Kitty” Jospé
“Unexpected Consequences—How an MFA Helped Me Find Myself” by Carrie L. Krucinski
“Raw to the Bone: Transported Toward Truth and Memory by Springsteen’s River Songs” by Beth Kephart
“Death of a Poet: Seamus Heaney” by Heather Lowery
Interviews
Interview with the founders of The Muse Writers Center by Millicent Borges Accardi
Interview with Michael Czarnecki by Dawn Leas
Interview with Brian Fanelli by Heather Lowery
Interview with Diane Raptosh by Nin Andrews
Interview with Jim Warner by Heather Lowery
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Summer 2013
Reviews
A Poet’s Sourcebook edited by Dawn Potter
Assumption by Jim Davis
Bully Pulpit by Kim Bridgford
Chinoiserie by Karen Rigby
domina Un/blued by Ruth Ellen Kocher
Her Familiars by Jane Satterfield
Listening for Earthquakes by Jasmine Dreame Wagner
miracles of the Blog: A series by Carolyn Srygley-Moore
Numbered Bones by Bobby Steve Baker
Saint X by Kirk Nesset
Search for a Velvet-Lined Cape by Marjorie Manwaring
Sprung by Laura Madeline Wiseman
St. Rage’s Vault by B.K. Fischer
The Stones Jones Canzones by Rick Mullin
Synopticon by Louis Armand & John Kinsella
The System by Claudia Serea
This Assignment Is So Gay: LGBTIQ Poets on the Art of Teaching edited by Megan Volpert
The Use of the World by Dan Albergotti
White Papers by Martha Collins
Essays
“What I Learned as a Literary Journal Reader” by Kevin Brown
“T.S. Eliot and William Carlos Williams: So Much Depends upon the Image” by Brian Fanelli
“The Problem(s) with ‘Twenty Little Poems That Could Save America’” by Jacob Victorine
“Sonata Mulattica: Rita Dove’s Juggling Act” by Jillian Wriston
Interviews
Q&A with Liliana Valenzuela by Millicent Borges Accardi
Q&A with Stanley Plumly by Georgia Jones-Davis
Q&A with Tim Z. Hernandez by Juan Luis Guzmán
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Spring 2013
Reviews
A Change in the Weather by Geoffrey Jacques
The Blue Den by Stephanie Norgate
Chinoiserie by Karen Rigby
The Girls of Peculiar by Catherine Pierce
The Grace to Leave by Lola Haskins
Looking for the Gulf Motel by Richard Blanco
Water-Rites by Ann E.Michael
What the Trapeze Artist Trusts by Malaika King Albrecht
Essays
“Karaoke: All the World’s a Stage” by Kaitlin Keller
“Worshiping ‘So What’: A Workshop and a Gallery” by Jen Kindbom
“Doing the Deer Dance” by Shauna Osborn
“E-Poetry and (Non-)Human Nature” by Andrew Ruzkowski
Interviews
Q&A with Molly Fisk by Millicent Borges Accardi
Q&A with Jane Hirshfield by Arthur McMaster
Q&A with Jessie Carty by Kaitlin Keller
Q&A with Tasha Cotter by Kaitlin Keller
Q&A with Joan Hanna by Kaitlin Keller
Q&A with Valerie Wetlaufer by Kaitlin Keller
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Winter 2013
Reviews
A (short) history of l. by rob mclennan
Ghost in a Red Hat by Rosanna Warren
The Kangaroo Girl by Judith Baumel
Painting Czeslawa Kwoka, Honoring Children of the Holocaust by Theresa Senato Edwards, paintings by Lori Schreiner
She Returns to the Floating World by Jeannine Hall Gailey
Space, in Chains by Laura Kasischke
Vermont Exit Ramps by Neil Shepard
A (short) history of l. by rob mclennan
Ghost in a Red Hat by Rosanna Warren
The Kangaroo Girl by Judith Baumel
Painting Czeslawa Kwoka, Honoring Children of the Holocaust by Theresa Senato Edwards, paintings by Lori Schreiner
She Returns to the Floating World by Jeannine Hall Gailey
Space, in Chains by Laura Kasischke
Vermont Exit Ramps by Neil Shepard
Essays
“A Public Poesy” by Denice Rovira Hazlett
“The Instructional Dose—One Lump or Two?” by Leslie L. Nielsen
“The Poetry of Comics” by Dale Mettam
“Books on the nightstand” by Ann E. Michael
“A Public Poesy” by Denice Rovira Hazlett
“The Instructional Dose—One Lump or Two?” by Leslie L. Nielsen
“The Poetry of Comics” by Dale Mettam
“Books on the nightstand” by Ann E. Michael
Interviews
Q&A with Mary Ruefle by Georgia Jones-Davis
Q&A with Mark Jarman by Arthur McMaster
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Fall 2012
Reviews
The Clock of The Long Now by Annabelle Moseley
On the Spectrum of Possible Deaths by Lucia Perillo
Victory by Ben Kopel
Phyla of Joy by Karen An-Hwei Lee
Our Lady of The Ruins by Traci Brimhall
The Commute by Susan Scutti
The Clock of The Long Now by Annabelle Moseley
On the Spectrum of Possible Deaths by Lucia Perillo
Victory by Ben Kopel
Phyla of Joy by Karen An-Hwei Lee
Our Lady of The Ruins by Traci Brimhall
The Commute by Susan Scutti
Essays
“Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Creative Writing Classroom” by David Wright
“The Triggering Tune” by Ann E. Michael
“Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Creative Writing Classroom” by David Wright
“The Triggering Tune” by Ann E. Michael
Interviews
Q&A with Rachel Eliza by Millicent Bórges Accardi
Q&A with Jack Cooper by Sonya Sabanac
Q&A with Shaindel Beers by Kathi Stafford
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Summer 2012
Reviews
The Pattern Maker’s Daughter by Sandee Gertz Umbach
Onion Man by Kathryn Mockler
The Art of the Sonnet edited by Stephen Burt and David Mikics
Ions by Jean Bleakney
The Outskirts of Karma by Alfred Encarnacion
The Fugitive Self: New and Selected Poems of John Wheatcroft
Essays
“The Inexplicable Math of Good Poetry” by Grace Curtis
“From Motown to Mos Def: The Musical Influences of Patricia Smith, Major Jackson, and Kevin Coval” by Brian Fanelli
“Grounded: Engaging the Spiritual in Poetry” by Sarah Wells
Interviews
Q&A with Carlos Matos by Millicent Borges Accardi
Q&A with Glenn Shaheen by Brian Russell
Q&A with Laurie Ann Guerrero by Kathy Stafford
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Winter 2010
Reviews
The Air around the Butterfly by Katerina Stoykova-Klemer
Anxious Music by April Ossmann
Blood Dazzler by Patricia Smith
Cities of Flesh and the Dead by Diann Blakely
Crazy Love by Pamela Uschuk
Cures and Poisons by Caroline Maun
Dark Card and Mom’s Canoe by Becky Foust
Fire Pond by Jessica Garratt
The Guilt Gene by Diana M. Raab
How to Live on Bread and Music by Jennifer Sweeney
Mister Skylight by Ed Skoog
the nested object by Dawn Lonsinger
Paternity by Scott Owens
Perpetual Care by Katie Cappello
Pictures in the Firestorm by Lauren Rusk
Rhapsody of the Naked Immigrants by Elena Georgiou
Rock Vein Sky by Charlotte Mandel
Six Lips by Penelope Scambly Schott
Slaves to Do These Things by Amy King
Slide Shows by Ann Fisher-Wirth
Interviews
Q&A with Stanley Plumly by Kerri Buckley
Q&A with Kevin Brown by Jessy Carty
Q&A with Lauren Rusk by Jill Crammond Wickham
Q&A with William Hathaway by Adam Tavel
Q&A with Dawn Potter by Rory Waterman
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Fall 2009
Reviews
A Brief History of Time by Shaindel Beers
Aphrodite’s Daughter by Becky Gould Gibson
At night, the dead by Lisa Ciccarello
Back of the Envelope by Greg McBride
Beautiful Rust by Ken Meisel
Befallen by K. Alma Peterson
Dear Anaïs: My Life in Poems For You by Diana M. Raab
Even Now by Susanna Lang
From the Fever-World by Jehanne Dubrow
Little Venus by Carla Drysdale
Strange Attractors: Poems of Love and Mathematics edited by Sarah Glaz & JoAnne Growney
Mistaking the Sea for Green Fields by Ashley Capps
Rooms and Their Airs by Jody Gladding
Taste of Cherry by Kara Candito
the dream and the dream you spoke by Maureen Alsop
The Touch by Cynthia Kraman
Then, Something by Patricia Fargnoli
Tulips Water Ash by Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet
Used White Wife by Sandra Simonds
With the Memory, Which is Enormous by Tony Trigilio
Interviews
Q&A with David Biespiel by Kerri Buckley
Q&A with Derick Burleson by Jessie Carty
Q&A with Rachel Kann by Lori A. May
Q&A with Jane Satterfield by Lori A. May
Q&A with Andrew Waterman by Rory Waterman
Q&A with Andrew Waterman by Rory Waterman
Q&A with Kara Candito by Jill Crammond Wickham