New titles selected: Arble, Gylee (Robin Becker Series)

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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.

New titles selected: A.V. Christie Series

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We are pleased to announce this year’s selections for the A.V. Christie Series. Our series editor, Sandy Yannone, has chosen irene cooper’s disintegration and Iris Rosenberg’s Subway’s like a bell curve to be published in early spring of 2027. We extend our gratitude to Sandy and to our readers, Liz Ahl and Ellen Miller-Mack. Please join us in congratulating the poets!

irene cooper wrote the poetry collections spare change, finalist for the Stafford/Hall Award, even my dreams are over the constant state of anxiety, and octets, a chapbook of original form. she is the author of two novels and a clutch of short stories & essays. irene supports AIC-directed
creative writing, teaches in community, & co-hosts Raging Writers/Spoken Words in the middle
of oregon, where she lives with her people & roxy.

Iris Rosenberg‘s poetry has appeared in River Heron, SWWIM, Thimble, Rust & Moth,
Ekphrastic Review and other literary journals. She lives in New York City with her husband, Stephen Sherman, a painter.

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Summer Kitchen preview

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Things are heating up, both outdoors and in: we’re just about to release this year’s Summer Kitchen Series and wanted to tease you with the cover art. First up is Vivian Kao’s Daughters of the Republic:

Next we’ll have James Lee’s Bee Suit:

Number Three in this year’s lineup is Ben Sloan’s Who and What We Are:

We are thrilled to bring out these chapbooks in July and August. Stay tuned for other title releases–summer is sizzling at Seven Kitchens!

Keystone Series is open

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The Keystone Chapbook Series, our first and longest-running series, is open for manuscripts during the month of June. Series Editors Karen J. Weyant and Jerry Wemple look forward to reading your work. Poems need not evoke Pennsylvania, but you should, in your cover letter, mention your connection to PA. This series began in 2007 with the publication of Underground Singing by Harry Humes, and we are proud to be publishing the 30th title in the series this month: Late Practice by Noah Davis.

Keep writing. Keep making art.

Seven Kitchens’ Pittsburgh Poets

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Seven Kitchens Press is proud of our Pittsburgh poets–so many! Please join us tonight at Poetry Lounge, 313 North Ave in Millvale, from 7-8:30 PM. The lineup has shifted but we should have four or five Pittsburgh poets including Jan Beatty, Sheila Carter-Jones, Trevor Moffa, and Ellen Smith. Editor and Publisher Ron Mohring will read as well.

Following the Seven Kitchens event will be the launch reading of the new issue of yawp, at 8:30 PM.

New chapbook release: Esperanza Cintrón, My Man (A.V. Christie Series)

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We are thrilled to announce the publication of Esperanza Cintrón’s My Man, Number 7 in our A.V. Christie Series, selected by series editor Sandy Yannone. Please join us in congratulating Esperanza, and click here to read a sample poem and order your copy.

New chapbook release: Christopher Nelson, lowercase gods [Robin Becker Series]

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We are thrilled to announce the publication of Christopher Nelson’s lowercase gods, Number 33 in our Robin Becker Series, selected by series editor Steve Bellin-Oka. Please join us in congratulating Christopher, and click here to read a sample poem and order your copy.

New titles selected: Summer Kitchen Series

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It’s our pleasure to announce the three titles selected from our January reading period to be published in our limited-edition Summer Kitchen Series: Vivian Kao’s Daughters of the Republic, James Lee’s Bee Suit, and Ben Sloan’s Two Loose Wires. Look for these chapbooks this summer, and please join us in congratulating the poets!

Vivian Kao lives in Flint, Michigan, and teaches English at Mott Community College. She is the author of a book of poems, Dear Mrs. River-Dragon (Another New Calligraphy, 2024), which was a finalist for the Wheelbarrow Poetry Prize. She was the 2024-25 Writer-in-Residence at the Buckham Fine Arts Project, and her volume of poems written in response to Buckham Art Gallery’s 2024-25 season will be published in March 2026.

James Lee received an M.F.A. from the University of California, Irvine, where he studied under poets Gabrielle Calvocoressi, James McMichael and Michael Ryan. His poems have appeared in the minnesota review, Juked, and Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. He is currently at work on a manuscript of poems tentatively titled, “Cheating the House.” He teaches writing and lives in upstate South Carolina with his wife and two children.

Ben Sloan grew up on a farm in southeast Missouri and currently lives in Charlottesville VA. He holds an MFA from Brooklyn College where he studied with John Ashbery. He has two poetry chapbooks, The Road Home (Thirty West Publishing House 2017) and Then On Out Into a Cloudless Sky (Seven Kitchens Press 2023).

Now reading: The A.V. Christie Series

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Each February, we read manuscripts from women writers over age 50, and our series editor, Sandy Yannone, selects one or two poetry manuscripts to publish in our A.V. Christie Series. There are no restrictions on content or form. Please check our complete guidelines and send us your best work!

New chapbook release: Jan Wiezorek, Forests of Woundedness [Robin Becker Series]

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We are pleased to announce the publication of Jan Wiezorek’s Forests of Woundedness, Number 32 in our Robin Becker Series, selected by series editor Steve Bellin-Oka. Please join us in congratulating Jan, and click here to read a sample poem and order your copy.