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.
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).
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!
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.
We are so happy to publish Brian Patrick Heston’s Sing, Dark Times, Number 29 in our Keystone Series, selected by series editors Karen J. Weyant and Jerry Wemple. Please join us in congratulating Brian, and click here to read a sample poem and order your copy.
Each November, we look for one or two poetry manuscripts to publish in our Allison Joseph Series, featuring BIPOC women writers. There are no restrictions on content or form. Please check our complete guidelines and send us your best work!
Seven Kitchens Press has published 25 chapbooks in our Rane Arroyo Series, and we are looking for one or two manuscripts for publication in 2026. We read annually for this series during the month of October. There are no restrictions on content or form. Please check our complete guidelines and send us your best work!
We are delighted to announce that our Series Editors, Karen J. Weyant and Jerry Wemple, have selected two chapbooks for publication as #30 and #31 in the Keystone Chapbook Series: Late Practice by Noah Davis, and Falling Into You by Emily Pera. Both chapbooks will be published in April 2026. Please join us in congratulating the poets!
Noah Davis is the author of The Last Beast We Revel In (CavanKerry, 2025). His first collection, Of This River, won the Wheelbarrow Emerging Poet Book Prize from Michigan State University’s Center for Poetry, and his poems and prose have appeared in The Sun, Orion, Best New Poets, The Year’s Best Sports Writing, Southern Humanities Review, Poet Lore, and North American Review, among others. He also coedited the anthology A Literary Field Guide to Northern Appalachia with Todd Davis and Caroyln G.
Mahan (University of Georgia Press). His work has been awarded a Katharine Bakeless Nason Fellowship at the Bread Loaf Writers Conference and the Jean Ritchie
Appalachian Literature Fellowship. Davis earned an MFA from Indiana University.
Emily Pera‘s poetry and stories have been anthologized in Halcyone’s 64 Best Poets, Poeming Pigeon, the Bryant Literary Review, Litro Magazine, and The Deadline, among others. This is her first chapbook.
We are delighted to announce the release of Eliot Khalil Wilson’s Your Heroes for Ghosts, Number 4 in Volume Six of our Editor’s Series. Please join us in congratulating Eliot, and click here to read a sample poem and order your copy.
We are thrilled to announce the release of Joshua Zeitler’s first chapbook: Bliss Road, Number 24 in our Rane Arroyo Series. Please join us in congratulating Joshua, and click here to read a sample poem and order your copy.
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