Category: Cafe Review News

Call for submissions
Attention poetry enthusiasts: If you ever thought of sending in your work, we are now reading for the 2017 season, our 28th year of continually

Poetry in the Garden
Original post by Maine Historical Society, Portland, Maine Join us for a free poetry reading in the Longfellow Garden August 4th at 5:30! Readers

Megan Grumbling @ PechaKusha
Tonight!!! Reviews Editor Megan Grumbling does her first PechaKusha, at Engine: Propelling the Creative Community in Biddeford about her new

Portland Greendrinks July 12
If you’re in the Portland, Maine area tomorrow, come join our Reviews Editor Megan Grumbling for some beer, nature and on-the-spot typed

Irish issue in Kennebec Journal
Check out an awesome write up by the Kennebec Journal about our latest Irish issue!! “Everywhere you go, it seems, there are people with a

OVER THE EDGE in Galway Ireland
Check out this great little write up about our very own Steve Luttrell’s reading from our latest Irish issue that’s happening in

Old Ballerina Club
Late in January of 2016 a collection of poems by poet Sharon Olinka, a past and frequent contributor to The Cafe Review with her own poems and

TCR Reviews Editor Megan Grumbling’s poetry collection, Booker’s Point
This April sees the launch of TCR Reviews Editor Megan Grumbling’s poetry collection, Booker’s Point, Winner of the 2015 Vassar
Steve Luttrell is named Poet Laureate of Portland, Maine
The Café Review is pleased to announce that Publishing Editor Steve Luttrell was recently named Poet Laureate of Portland, Maine, for a two-year

The Cafe Review in Poets and Writers
The Cafe Review was recently featured in the May/June issue of Poets and Writers with a wonderful article by Joshua Bodwell. Sadly, the actual