Our latest Summer 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 an interview with William Carpenter conducted by Kevin Sweeney with poetry by William Carpenter, Andy Clausen, Maggie Dubris, Paul Guest, Myronn Hardy, James Lowe, Steve Luttrell, Devorah Major, Terry McDonagh, rob mclennan, Ed Sanders, Ian Stephen, Pamela Twining, Anna van Valkenburg, Anne Waldman, Cal Wenby and Daisy Zamora. Artwork by Craig Becker, Rufus Coes, Ashley Cook, Gordon D’Arcy, Grant Drumheller, Ronald Frontin, Mike Hawthorne, Jim Larimer, Mario Loprete, Jeremy Szuder, Christof Vetsch and Dave Wade are also featured, with reviews by Carl Little, Jefferson Navicky and Julie Poitras Santos.
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Poet Interview
Poetry Excerpts from this Issue
Salvadoran Woman Killed on Fillmore Street
The Immigrant
SANDINISTA REVOLUTION
The Drunken Girl
The Thing
Owl
Lockdown Borders
Silent Orders
Farewell to Hamburg
Skylight
An ailing wind
caithness
The lay of the land
New World Order
Is it True
My Sister Died Alone
Tachfyn’s Cats
Farewell Mountain
To the Linear
The Emperor of Terracotta Roofs Confronts the Jester
Forest
At Last You’re Here
The Thorn and the Wash Basin
Twin
coltrane
A Song for New York
Covid-19 and the Homeless
calfia’s daughter
war visions
I’m shopping “love in the hunting season”
the book of smaller
Four poems for Stuart Ross’ sixtieth birthday
Seamus Heaney Reading at Colby College
Days When I Imagine the Future is the Past
Poem for Tucker Carlson’s Face
from the salon of cultures
Two Haiku
