Our latest Fall 2020 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 Don Byrd, Alan Catlin, Alfred Corn, Craig Cotter, Eric Forsbergh, Dan Gerber, Bill Griffin, Peter Kidd, David Lehman, Richard Martin, Clive Matson, Gerald McCarthy, Kevin Neal, Elizabeth Ogle, Masaya Saito, Michael Salcman, James Schneider, Vijay Seshadri, Yuyutsu Sharma, Charles Stein, Richard Taylor, Tony Towle, Tom Veitch, Terence Winch. This issue features work by artists Andrew Abbott, Bob Branaman, Rush Brown, William Rand, Karrie Ross, Mary Ross, John Whalley and William Wolak with reviews by David Stankiewicz and Carl Little.
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Poetry Excerpts from this Issue
To Mo Cohen
Saturated Landscape
California Suite
Hello, Paradise. Paradise, Goodbye.
Our friend the thunder
The Space
Living With Apostrophe
Rationale for a Kiss
Two Haiku Sequences: An Akita Summer
By a Lake, Perhaps
The Hammer Stone
The Ecstasies of Sense
Then Knowledge is the Only Life
Opus Vitae
The Empty House
Burial song, Fish’s Eddy
Thistle
Chanson Pour Jean-Louis
The Children of Narcissists Are Likely to Attract Narcissists Into Their Lives as Adults
With Death in the Via Canale
If You Visit The Old Burying Ground
Not Knowing
At Hot Water Beach
Elopement
To The Next Cold Case Killer
Narcan
Making Tea
Because
Apology for Bad Dreams: St Croix 1953
Andy Warhol’s Three Sisters
A Super Star at home 1969 according to Diane Arbus
Dawn
Caviar for the Generals
The Unease
Ceasefire
Aristotle, Aquinas, and Descartes
After Season 8, Episode 3, Game of Thrones
The First Message
A Poem to Be Read Slowly and Quietly
Safecracking
Or Perhaps a soul
Where would my story end?
Who saw it coming?
Nemesis
Dialectic
A Poem for Dr. Blossom
The Human Condition
Artist Biographies
Poet Biographies
Terence Winch
Tom Veitch
Tony Towle
Richard Taylor
Charles Stein
Yuyutsu Sharma
Vijay Seshadri
James H. Schneider
Michael Salcman
Masaya Saito
Elizabeth Ogle
Kevin Neal
Gerald McCarthy
Clive Matson
Richard Martin
David Lehman
Peter Kidd
Bill Griffin
Dan Gerber
Eric Forsbergh