Our latest Winter 2018 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 Jean Berrett, Charles Coe, Mark DeCarteret, Michael Estabrook, Elizabeth Garber, Max Hjortsberg, klipschutz, Linda Lerner, Gerard Malanga, Michael Mark, Gerald McCarthy, Gary Mesick, Dave Morrison, Angela Patten, James Miller Robinson, Thaddeus Rutkowski, Ed Sanders, Meg Smith, Geo. Staley, Adam Valentine, Mary Warner, Francine Witte and Anton Yakovlev. This issue features work by artists Katherine Benedict, Linden Frederick, and Jay Wesler with reviews by Megan Grumbling, DeWitt Clinton and Kevin Sweeney.
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Poetry Excerpts from this Issue
Two Darlings
Useless Things
Letter to One’s Elders
A Good Day
mnemonic
Inventory
Dad
Autobiographies 3
Autobiography 1
Two Old Sisters
Strangers at a party
Forgetting you is like a lion
Jazzman
Welcome Homesick
First Date
Maybe I Was Meant To Be Humbled
Timor Mortis Conturbat Me
Nothing Happened
Your Windmills Can Set Down Their Fireworks
Slip away
To My Track Driver, on Trial
Examination of Conscience
Jon at Eighteen
Selective Vision
The Best Advice
Species-ism
Portrait of an Ordinary God
The View from Mt. Forgotten
Denny’s on the Corner of Garnett & Mission Blvd.
Sadness on Grabhord Rd.
Closing Shift at the Liquor Store
Morning Shift at the Liquor Store
Dawn on Mount Sinai
Culture
American
My Muse
Week on Hatteras
Susan’s Holy Mountain
A Dozen Cuban Tortas
Rats
Anonymity
Recycling
The Stray Dog
Beginning The Family
For Jack Collom
In Praise and Memory of Joanne Kyger
Artist Biographies
Poet Biographies
Anton Yakovlev
Francine Witte
Mary Warner
Adam Valentine
Geo. Staley
Meg Smith
Ed Sanders
Thaddeus Rutkowski
James Miller Robinson
Angela Patten
Dave Morrison
Gary Mesick
Gerald McCarthy
Michael Mark
Gerard Malanga
Linda Lerner
klipschutz
Max Hjortsberg
Elizabeth Garber
Michael Estabrook
Mark DeCarteret
Charles Coe