Our latest Fall 2017 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 Amy Barone, Adrian Blevins, Robert Carr, Neeli Cherkovski, Carl Dennis, Lucas Diggle, David Filer, Jack Foley, Jennifer Juneau, Ron Kolm, David Lawton, Myke Leavitt, Mare Leonard, Peter Manuel, Ronald J. Pelias, Simon Pettet, Paul Pines, Jeri Theriault, Jeffrey Cyphers Wright and Alberto Zayden with an interview with Carl Dennis conducted by Kevin Sweeney. This issue features work by artists Stacy Howe and Tom Stock with reviews by Megan Grumbling, Julie Poitras Santos and Dana Wilde.
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Poetry Excerpts from this Issue
Who Hasn’t
In Some Café on the Upper West Side
The Bill of Rights
Eternal Life
New Year’s Eve
The God Who Loves You
Old Composer
Poem (“popular fear . . . ”)
Dear Earth
Cut Flowers
The March
Bop Juice
Milltown Legacy
Old Orchard Beach, 1962
Blacksnow
Meet the New Boss
Assemblage
Titania’s Tool
Rain Dancer
A Small Blessing
Just
What Was Found There
Cave
Instruction for Wanderers
Gravity
Spectral Lines
Abortion
East Coast Girl
Far Breton
My Father
A Catholic Girlhood in Queens
Style Status
Saturday, in the Park
Inconvenient Ice
I Was Loth to Lead Her
North of November
Envy — An Elegy
Yahrzeit
No Man is an Island . . .
Interview from this Issue
