The Café Review

10/08/2025

TONIGHT !

Tonight at Novel in Portland at :7:00

We are Celebrating the publication of our
“ Long Awaited “ Vietnamese Issue.
Also it is our monthly Open Reading Series.

Please Come if you can !

10/08/2025

Open Reading at Novel at 7pm downstairs. Come celebrate our latest issue!

09/29/2025

Poets Steve Luttrell & Kevin McLellan Reading for Xit the Bear at The Press RoomDate & Time: Sunday, October 19, 2025 · 4:00 PM (EDT)Location: The Press Room, 90 Oxford St, Somerville, MA 02143

Join us for an afternoon of poetry as The Café Review’s founder and editor Steve Luttrell reads alongside award-winning poet Kevin McLellan as part of the Xit the Bear Reading Series. Visual artist and poet Jenny Grassl’s woodcuts will also be featured on the walls.

All are welcome! A suggested donation of $5 helps support the series.

About the Poets
Kevin McLellan is the author of Sky. Pond. Mouth. (winner of the 2024 Granite State Poetry Prize and finalist for the Thom Gunn Award in Gay Poetry), in other words you/ (winner of the 2022 Hilary Tham Capital Collection), Ornitheology, Tributary, Round Trip, and the book objects Hemispheres and , which are housed in several special collections including Harvard’s Blue Star Collection. His poems appear in Harvard Review, Bennington Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, and others. He also creates videos that have screened at numerous international film festivals, including the Berlin Short Film Festival and the LGBTQ+ Los Angeles Film Festival, where his short Dick won Best Short Form Short. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. kevmclellan.com

Steve Luttrell, former Poet Laureate of Portland, Maine, is the founder and publisher of The Café Review, Maine’s longest-running quarterly poetry journal. He is the author of six collections of poetry, including his most recent book Paper Boats.

Jenny Grassl is a poet and visual artist based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her poems have appeared in Ocean State Review, Boston Review, Tupelo Quarterly, Bennington Review, Lana Turner Journal, Massachusetts Review, and more. Her debut collection Magicholia was published by 3: A Taos Press in August 2024.

Getting There
The Press Room is located at 90 Oxford St., Somerville, MA 02143 (please note: not Cambridge — GPS sometimes misdirects).

Entry is down the drive and through the garden.

Parking: Non-permit parking on Highland Ave. during weekdays; all nearby parking is free and open on Sundays.

Public Transit:

Green Line: Gilman Station (Tufts/Medford line), about a 10-minute walk.

Buses: #88 (from Davis and Lechmere, exit at Central St.) or #83 (from Alewife, exit at Central & Somerville Ave).

About a 25-minute walk from Harvard or Davis Squares.

Doors open at 3:30 PM, and the reading will begin around 4:00 PM.

After the Reading
Consider stopping by The Highland Kitchen just a block away for excellent food and drinks.

We hope to see you there for this special evening of poetry and community.

Poets Steve Luttrell & Kevin McLellan Reading for Xit the Bear at The Press RoomDate & Time: Sunday, October 19, 2025 · 4:00 PM (EDT)Location: The Press Room, 90 Oxford St, Somerville, MA 0…

08/11/2025

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05/14/2025

Open readings are back! Basement room at 7pm every second Wednesday of the month. Next ones will be June 11 and July 9. Come one come all!

04/08/2025

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03/13/2025

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02/03/2025

It is with a heavy heart that we announce a pause in our open readings. We had hoped to gather once more at Henry’s before it closed its doors, but unfortunately, that wasn’t possible.

However, don’t worry—our open readings will return! We’re currently in talks with a few potential new venues, and once the details are finalized, we’ll share the exciting news.

In the meantime, we remain committed to publishing The Café Review and supporting our local poetry community in their readings and creative endeavors. Stay tuned, and thank you for being part of our literary family!

It is with a heavy heart that we announce a pause in our open readings. We had hoped to gather once more at Henry’s before it closed its doors, but unfortunately, that wasn’t possible. However, don…

12/30/2024

Dear Readers and Contributors

We at The Café Review would like to Thank You
for your continuing support throughout this year
and look forward to your continued interest and support of our project.
This has been a very important year for us .
Many new and exciting changes have occurred!
We look forward to the new year with optimism
and gratitude.

Be Well and HAPPY New Year !

Steve Luttrell, publisher
The Café Review

10/26/2024

I would like Thank Everyone who made this book possible!