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.
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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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!
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.
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