Poems saturated with coffee and coffeehouse poetry reading ambiance, these are (depending on your bias): youthful/naive, immediate/unpolished, sincere/sentimental, direct/obvious. JAM'S CoffeeHouse in Huntington Beach seems to be the spawning ground, with seemingly the same explosion of café readings there that we see here in Cleveland. BURNT TOAST is free, but poets are asked to contribute $1/page for work submitted--a turn of the table, charging the artist instead of the audience.--luigi
This review originally appeared in TapRoot Reviews #5,
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