Our latest Spring 2022 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 Michael Anania, Emily H. Axelrod, Gustavo A. Bécquer translated by Thomas Feeney, Craig Brandis, Charles Brice, Johnny Flaherty, Eric Forsbergh, Gloria Frym, Larry Goodell, Matthew Guennette, Leonore Hildebrandt, Ronald Koertge, Nathaniel Krenkel, Jason Lynn, Richard Martin, Gerald McCarthy, R. S. Mengert, Caryn Mirriam- Goldberg, Bill Nevins, Yuko Otomo, Lori Powell, Meghan Sterling, Ellen Taylor, Martin Vest, Eamonn Wall, Marie Gray Wise and David Wyatt. Artists featured include Natalie Christensen, Michael Dubina, Jim Eyre, Doug Frati, Aaron Hahn, Timo Hissa, Sarah Hussein, Tom Pirozzoli, Bette Ridgeway, Adam Sturch, Edward Michael Supranowicz with reviews by Jefferson Navicky and Jeri Theriault.
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Poetry Excerpts from this Issue
Sunday Cave
BIRTH • DAY
Revolutions are not about trifles
Wonderful News, Darling
Simple Life
Purpose of Religion
Kabul Sunset Version II
Amaranth the Underlying Flower
Free Heroin
Rope Swing
Sending Light
Following Easter, Fog and Light
In Another Room
Portrait of Your Parents
These Days are Fleeting
The Sand — Trophies of San Felipe
Message from Janis Joplin’s Northern Lights
Requiescat in Pace
Li
A Matter of Words
Knots
Graig Sack Co
It Is Solved By Walking
Grandmother Pulls the Dryman’s Arm
When I Realized I Couldn’t Make More
Late Summer, Barnegat Light
April Morning
Your Life Will Never Be the Same After Trying These Unusual Hacks
Mysterium Interruptus
Cubicle Soliloquy
A Bit of Both
Flower Moon
Covering Stan Getz
Strange Forms with Fancy
Yellow Rain Slicker
The Thread
The First Man You Loved
Shapeshifter
Self Portrait with Quilt and Synesthesia
Girl, Calendar 1979
Tumblehome
The Call
The Shroud of Hubris
Reviews
Poet Biographies
David Wyatt
Marie Gray Wise
Eamonn Wall
Martin Vest
Ellen Taylor
Meghan Sterling
Lori Powell
Yuko Otomo
Bill Nevins
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
R.S. Mengert
Gerald McCarthy
Richard Martin
Jason Lynn
Nathaniel Krenkel
Ronald Koertge
Leonore Hildebrandt
Matthew Guennette
Larry Goodell
Gloria Frym
Eric Forsbergh
Johnny Flaherty
Thomas Feeney
Charles Brice
Craig Brandis
Gustavo A. Bécquer
Emily H. Axelrod