
Our latest Winter 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 Jean Berrett, Charles Coe, Mark DeCarteret, Michael Estabrook, Elizabeth Garber, Max Hjortsberg, klipschutz, Linda Lerner, Gerard Malanga, Michael Mark, Gerald McCarthy, Gary Mesick, Dave Morrison, Angela Patten, James Miller Robinson, Thaddeus Rutkowski, Ed Sanders, Meg Smith, Geo. Staley, Adam Valentine, Mary Warner, Francine Witte and Anton Yakovlev. This issue features work by artists Katherine Benedict, Linden Frederick, and Jay Wesler with reviews by Megan Grumbling, DeWitt Clinton and Kevin Sweeney.
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Poetry Excerpts from this Issue

Two Darlings

Useless Things

Letter to One’s Elders

A Good Day

mnemonic

Inventory

Dad

Autobiographies 3

Autobiography 1

Two Old Sisters

Strangers at a party

Forgetting you is like a lion

Jazzman

Welcome Homesick

First Date

Maybe I Was Meant To Be Humbled

Timor Mortis Conturbat Me

Nothing Happened

Your Windmills Can Set Down Their Fireworks

Slip away

To My Track Driver, on Trial

Examination of Conscience

Jon at Eighteen

Selective Vision

The Best Advice

Species-ism

Portrait of an Ordinary God

The View from Mt. Forgotten

Denny’s on the Corner of Garnett & Mission Blvd.

Sadness on Grabhord Rd.

Closing Shift at the Liquor Store

Morning Shift at the Liquor Store

Dawn on Mount Sinai

Culture

American

My Muse

Week on Hatteras

Susan’s Holy Mountain

A Dozen Cuban Tortas

Rats

Anonymity

Recycling

The Stray Dog

Beginning The Family

For Jack Collom

In Praise and Memory of Joanne Kyger
Poet Biographies

Anton Yakovlev

Francine Witte

Mary Warner

Adam Valentine

Geo. Staley

Meg Smith

Ed Sanders

Thaddeus Rutkowski

James Miller Robinson

Angela Patten

Dave Morrison

Gary Mesick

Gerald McCarthy

Michael Mark

Gerard Malanga

Linda Lerner

klipschutz

Max Hjortsberg

Elizabeth Garber

Michael Estabrook

Mark DeCarteret

Charles Coe
