Our latest Winter 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 Gerard Malanga conducted by Steve Luttrell, poetry by Douglas Blazek, Stephen Ellis, Sandee Gertz, Yonghong Gu, Gerard Malanga, David McCann, Geraldine Monk, Dan Murphy, Kieran Fionn Murphy, Stephen Petroff, Susan Bassler Pickford, Charles Plymell, Deborah Pope, Roxie Powell, Gordon Taylor and Joe Torra.
This issue features work by artists Mary Beach, Robert Branaman, Steve Doogan, Ralph Hassenpflug, Carella Keil, Claude Pélieu, Jon Sarkin and Gilead Tadmor with reviews by Christopher Malone and Julie Poitras Santos.
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Interview with Gerard Malanga
Poetry Excerpts from this Issue
Disease is the Best Cure
Preparations
Moonset
Poem After Yonghong Gu
Foot Binding Cloth Strip
December
Lifelines
In my Dreams
Daily Constitutional
Elision
After / Math
Void’s Oratorio
This Force Sovereign in its Gnosis
Aftermaths of Autopsy
Fable of Pursuit
Double Agent
Entranced
Salt Lick
I Watch the Cellists
Corporal Punishment
for K.G.
Medleys for Crandall
Hollywood Blvd. for Dean Stockwell
Goodbye My Generation
Lost Catalpa
Result
II. Love in a Coffee Cup
I. Sestina: Café Spitz, 1964
World Anti-Slavery Convention Fallout: America 1840
World Anti-Slavery Convention. London 1840
Do Not Touch My Clothes
Hope Abandoned
The Pain of Now
Something In Trees
On A Distant Street
If God Were Human
Xena @ 7:23 p.m.
Elda Gentile aka Elda Stiletto, 1949-2018
Alexander Liberman, editorial director of Condé Nast & Artist, 1912-1999
