Our latest Winter 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 Raquel Balboni, Christian Barter, John Brandi, Bobby Byrd, Andrei Codrescu, Xue Di (translated by Hil Anderson and Forrest Gander), Agneta Falk, Jack Foley, Gene Grabiner, Jack Hirschman, Mike Pacey, Thaddeus Rutkowski, Ed Sanders, Meg Smith, Nathan Smith, James Sutherland-Smith, Wren Tuatha, Frederick Wilbur and Ann Marie Wranovix. This issue features work by artists Stephen Burt, Matt Cohen, David Connor, Tom Ferrero, Conrad Pinto and Torsten Richter with a review by Carl Little.
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Poetry Excerpts from this Issue
Apocalypse
After the Action Movie
Indulgence
i thought to cook
In trying to negotiate
Not the Thing Itself but the Thing
The Name of Our Home
All Possible Worlds
Moonlight
Dizzy
The Whistle
Clear Creek Soliloquy
Whiskered Intelligence
Pueblo Dance
Genitals — A Note to my wife
Early Morning, Front Porch
I have a friend, a poet
California
W.B.Y.
Liz
Dear David
Dancing on a Wing of Breath
The Jidimajia Arcane
A Spalting, though
What We Must Do
Reading in Bed
God Will See
Foreign Fillings
Distance Learning
St. Peter’s Picnic Circa 1983
Centering Prayer
Passage to Clearwater
The Orchard Diary
Widow at Stonehenge
Hands and Feet
Rough and Smooth
Perch
Paradise, Evacuation Lifted
Tuba
How the Bat Gets In
Weather Report
On Pine Avenue
Oh Joey I’m Not Angry Any More
memory
Now and then sonnet
You are They
Olson & Kerouac
Proem to “Olson & Kerouac”
