Our Spring 2018 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 Vyt Bakaitis, Robert Breen, Mark DeFoe, Gene Grabiner, A. M. Juster, Carolyn Locke, Charlotte F. Otten, Mark Rubin, Alan Shapiro, G. H. Smith, Kevin Sweeney, Jim Tilley, Shane Vaughan and Geoff Wells. This issue features work by artists Matt Blackwell, Rachael Eastman and Don Gorvett with reviews by Julie Poitras Santos, Kevin Sweeney and Dana Wilde.
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Poetry Excerpts from this Issue
ampersanding
After a Storm on Oliver Bay
Moonlight on Haws
Losing It
Bonding
when one lay sleepless
rain coming down
Life Goes On
A Gale-Force Wind
Tapas
An Innocent Victim of Blind Justice
Dead
Arts Briefly
Manning the Turnstile on River Styx
Brothel
Here We Are, Where Are We?
Abacus
Separate
Reluctance Before Spring
For the Hiker Lost in Acadia
What Is Chosen in Dreams
High Flier
The Power
Epilog
Stone Pit
A Light Never Extinguished
The Barred Owl
Enigma
What the End Was Like
Art According to Curly
