Our latest Spring 2023 Issue of The Café Review continues our mission to bring Maine poetry to the world and poetry from around the world to Maine featuring an interview with Robert Kelly conducted by Steve Luttrell, and poetry by Mike Bove, James Brasfield, Thomas Feeny, James Finnegan, Larry Goodell, Pierre Joris, Robert Kelly, George Looney, Charlotte H. Matthews, C. S. Nelson, Michael Palma, Bob Perelman, George Quasha, Margaret Randall, Jerome Rothenberg, Gino Sky and Sue Ellen Thompson. Artwork by Thomas Connolly, David Connor, K. Scott Davis, Laurie Lipton, Diana Mackie and Rik van Iersel and reviews by Carl Little and Jefferson Navicky are also featured.
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Interview with Robert Kelly
Poetry Excerpts from this Issue
The Leviathan
Water Water Everywhere
Unslumbering Bear
Offloading
Abandoned Draft #3: A Curious Feeling
Abandoned Draft #1: Dismissal
Off the Danger List
Seeksorrow
Buried in the City That Care Forgot
Halloween Mask
Waiting for the Plane
Cowboy Joe
Old Marrieds
It Seems
Linger Long
Sand Verbena Near Ojito Wilderness
To Dream Infinity
Coda to A Book of Dreams
After Heartbreak
Christmas at The Cowboy Buddha Hotel
Don’t be a Guberif
Tools on D Street.
Jung’s Magic Book of Symbols
Buffalo Stew
Best Practices
Sharp Teeth, Sharper Tongue
They Say
On the New Nature
Life as It Was
Our Progress is Plastic and Cement
Questions for All Your Answers
Jesus and The Jumper Cables
The Scrimshaw Artist
The Secret Lover
The Tracks
The Show
from dowsing axis preverbs for Robert Kelly
Dear Robert, I
For Robert, His Caprices #95
To The River
