We are delighted to present Gail benEzra’s Sunflowers & Bony Wings, Number 8 in our A.V. Christie Series. Please join us in congratulating Gail, and click here to read a sample poem and order your copy.
We are delighted to present Devon Balwit’s I Can’t Seem to Avoid Her, Number 7 in Volume Six of our Editor’s Series, featuring a cover painting by the author. This is Devon’s second chapbook with Seven Kitchens. Please join us in congratulating Devon, and click here to read a sample poem and order your copy.
It is our great delight this year’s selections for the Keystone Chapbook Series. Series Editors Karen J. Weyant and Jerry Wemple have selected three manuscripts for publication: Jeff Walt’s For the Boy Who Likes Pink, Jackie Campbell’s Things No One Will Repair, and Robert E. Shapiro’s Seventy. Each chapbook will be printed in an edition of 100 copies, and the poets will receive 20 copies of their book. We expect to bring out all three titles in spring of 2027.
There has been a change to the deadline for the Keystone Series: going forward, we will consider manuscripts for this series during the month of May (previously June). Please see the full guidelines for this and all our series. Meanwhile, please join us in congratulating our newest poets!
Jeff Walt was born & raised in rural Pennsylvania among a community of coal
miners, brick-layers, and railroad workers. His chapbook, Soot, was awarded co-winner
of the Keystone Chapbook Prize and published in 2010 by Seven Kitchens Press. He’s
been awarded writing residencies from The MacDowell Colony, The Djerassi Resident
Artist Program, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Fairhope Center for the
Writing Arts, and Kalani Eco-village on the Big Island of Hawaii. His book, Leave Smoke, was published on Oct. 1, 2019 by Gival Press and was awarded the 2020 Housatonic Book Award. Jeff is the Founder and Director of the Desert Rat Residency for Writers in Palm Desert, CA which sponsors The
Desert Rat Poetry & Fiction Prize.
Jackie Campbell is a writer and teacher from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. She holds a PhD in English from Princeton University. This is her first chapbook.
Robert E. Shapiro is a clinical neurologist and a Professor emeritus of Neurological Sciences at the University of Vermont.
We are proud to present the third title in this year’s Summer Kitchen Series: Ben Sloan’s Who and What We Are. Published in a very limited edition of 49 copies (25 go the poet), this is Ben’s second chapbook with Seven Kitchens. Please join us in congratulating Ben, and click here to read a sample poem and order your copy.
We are happy to present Number Two in this year’s Summer Kitchen Series: James Lee’s Bee Suit. These chapbooks are published in a very limited edition of only 49 copies: the poet gets 25, and the rest sell through Seven Kitchens–so act fast! Please join us in congratulating James, and click here to read a sample poem and order your copy.
Summer is really heating up with the launch of our Summer Kitchen Series! First up, we are delighted to present Vivian Kao’s Daughters of the Republic, Number 1 in Volume 14 of the series. These chapbooks are published in a very limited edition of only 49 copies: the poet gets 25, and the rest sell through Seven Kitchens–so act fast! Please join us in congratulating Vivian, and click here to read a sample poem and order your copy.
We are delighted to announce the publication of Noah Davis’s Late Practice, Number 30 in our Keystone Series, selected by series editors Karen J. Weyant and Jerry Wemple. Please join us in congratulating Noah, and click here to read a sample poem and order your copy.
We are thrilled to announce the publication of Isabel Cristina Legarda’s The Pillar Dwellers’ Handbook, Number 5 in our Allison Joseph Series. Please join us in congratulating Cristina, and click here to read a sample poem and order your copy.
We are so happy to announce the second print run of Mapping the Valley: Hospital Poems, a father-son collaboration between David J. Bauman and Micah James Bauman, first published in 2021 as Number 12 in Volume 4 of our Editor’s Series. Please join us in congratulating David and Micah on this achievement!
We are pleased to announce this year’s selections for the Robin Becker Series. Our series editors, Steve Bellin-Oka and Joshua Davis, have chosen Chris Gylee’s Homo Lines and Robin Arble’s Riverring to be published in 2027. Each author will receive twenty free copies of their chapbook and a 100-copy initial print run. Please join us in congratulating the poets!
Chris Gylee (he/him) is a queer writer and artist living in rural Finland. His poems include the micro-chapbooks Ten For ‘A’ and Songs for Our Future Selves (both Ghost City Press). His writing has appeared in & Change, Feral (TUO TUO), Frozen Sea, Fruit Journal, Fruitslice, GARLAND (Fifth Wheel Press), Impossible Archetype, Ink Sweat & Tears, meanwhile: bloom (living language), Powders Press, Tenebrae (Fathomsun), Seaford Review, Tidskriften Astra, and Under the Radar (Nine Arches Press). Chris was longlisted for the Cúirt New Writing Prize 2023 and shortlisted for the Katrina Collins Poetry Prize 2025.
Robin Arble ‘s poems have appeared in beestung, Passages North, Poetry Online, and Quarter After Eight, among others. She studied literature and creative writing at Hampshire College and lives in western Massachusetts.
