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.
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 want to take this opportunity to welcome our new Keystone Series co-editor, Jerry Wemple, to the Seven Kitchens Press family, and to thank our outgoing series co-editor, Jeff Walt, for his service to the series and his continued poetry citizenship. We are happy to add that Karen J. Weyant will stay on as co-editor of this, our longest-running series.
Scroll down on our Keystone Series Guidelines page to read their biographies. And if you are a poet with a Pennsylvania connection, send us your chapbook manuscript by June 30!
It’s June, and so we’re throwing open the window for manuscripts by poets with a Pennsylvania connection. Seven Kitchens Press was launched back in 2007 with our Keystone Chapbook Series, and we’ve published 28 chapbooks in the series, with #29 in production. Will your manuscript be next? Check our complete guidelines and send us your best work!
We’re so happy to announce the publication of Animal Grace by Gloria Heffernan as Number 28 in our Keystone Series, selected by series editors Karen J. Weyant and Jeff Walt. Please join us in welcoming Gloria to the Seven Kitchens family, and then click here to read a sample poem and order your copy!
We read annually for the Keystone Series during the month of June. Full guidelines may be found here.
We’re very happy to announce the results of this year’s Keystone Chapbook Series: Series Editors Karen J. Weyant and Jeff Walt have selected Sing, Dark Times by Brian Patrick Heston of Kirksville, Missouri as the 29th title in our longest-running series. Brian’s chapbook has been scheduled for publication in spring of 2025.
Please join us in welcoming Brian to the Seven Kitchens family.
We are proud to announce the release of our second July chapbook: Erik Schuckers’ Pretty Boys in Trouble was selected by Keystone Series editors Karen J. Weyant and Jeff Walt as #27 in our longest-running chapbook series. Please join us in welcoming Erik to the Seven Kitchens family, and click here to order your copy now!
Our original and oldest-running series welcomes manuscripts by poets with a Pennsylvania connection during the month of June. Series editors Karen J. Weyant and Jeff Walt look forward to reading your work! Full guidelines available here.
Our sixteenth release this year is Jeffrey Skinner’s Blue Book, Number 26 in our Keystone Series. Please join us in celebrating Jeffrey’s new chapbook.
Our fourteenth release this year is Rae Gouirand’s Rough Sequence, selected as Number 25 in our Keystone Series. This is Rae’s second title with Seven Kitchens Press. Please join us in celebrating her new chapbook.
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