Steve Luttrell
Founder and Publishing Editor
portpoet@gmail.com
Steve Luttrell is an internationally recognized Poet and Publisher. He is the founding editor of The Café Review, an award winning art and poetry journal, published in Portland, Maine since 1989. He is a past Poet Laureate for the city of Portland, Maine and is the author of five published collections of poetry including his latest, Plumb Line, published by North Atlantic Books (Berkeley, Ca.) in 2015.
Roger Dutton
Typography & Design
rebelcafe@cfl.rr.com
Roger has been designing and creating The Café Review book format from fragments of paper for the past sixteen years. His motto: “The Café Review is BOUND to happen.” His chapbook of poems is titled, Anyone Can Ingest Daylight. He created and performs Mr. Mojo Risin’ — A Performance of the Poetry of Jim Morrison — a theatrical presentation designed to help carve a legacy of truth for a person he considers one of the greatest poets of all time. This has been a consummate life passion by an incalculable exponent.
Megan Grumbling
Reviews Editor
mgrumbling@thecafereview.com
Megan Grumbling’s collection Booker’s Point (UNT 2016) received the Vassar Miller Prize and the Maine Book Award for Poetry. Her work has been awarded the Poetry Foundation’s Ruth Lilly Fellowship and the Robert Frost Foundation Award, and has appeared in Poetry, Crazyhorse, The Iowa Review, Memorious, Best of the Net, and elsewhere. She is librettist of the spoken operaPersephone in the Late Anthropocene, a co-creation with the late composer Denis Nye which premiered at SPACE Gallery, in Portland.
Kevin Sweeney
Editor
ksweeney@thecafereview.com
Kevin Sweeney has published two books of poems, Rags of Prayer and Ordinary Time, both from Moon Pie Press, with a third collection due out this year. He received a master’s of fine arts from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1975. Since 1983, he has taught English at Southern Maine Community College, where he is department chair and shop steward of his union. He recently joined The Cafe Review as a poetry editor.
Craig Sipe
Poetry and Audio Editor
csipe@thecafereview.com
Craig Sipe spent his career in the defense industry in Connecticut and Rhode Island. He and his wife relocated to Maine in 2016. He has written poetry most of his life and has been published in the Maine Arts Review, the Goose River Press Anthology , Taproot Literary Review (Pennsylvania), the Anthology for the Austin International Poetry Festival (Texas), among other places. He resides in Harpswell on Orr’s Island.
Katie Benedict
Managing Editor
kbenedict@thecafereview.com
Katie lives in Portland. She creates poetry with pictures instead of words. www.katiebenedict.com
Danny Louten
Art Director
dlouten@thecafereview.com
Danny Louten, a Maine native, began designing, shooting, and printing in high school. He is a graduate of the Maine College of Art. Louten has worked the last twenty years as a Graphic Designer and Art Director. His career has straddled the publishing and advertising world. Louten has been commissioned by Red Bull, Sperry Topsider, O.A.R., Reverb, and Guster, for identity, poster lines and apparel. His design work has also been published in Semi-Permanent out of Sydney, Australia.
Luc Diggle
Online Editor
ldiggle@thecafereview.com
Luc Diggle lives in rural Vermont. His work was selected by Cate Marvin for the anthology Best New Poets 2019 and has appeared in The Café Review and The Columbia Review. He is a graduate of the Bennington Writing Seminars.