Our eighteenth release this year is Paloma Martínez-Cruz‘s Other Bombs, selected by Allison Joseph as Number 1 in our Allison Joseph Series. We are delighted to launch this chapbook just as we prepare to open the November reading period for this series by BIPOC women poets. The second title in the series, by Asani Charles, will launch October 28. Please join us in celebrating these vibrant women’s voices!
September has been a flurry of activity. We’ve just published three chapbooks in four days: Rae Gouirand’s Rough Sequence, J Swanson’s You May Unravel, and Jeffrey Skinner’s Blue Book–our 199th title since we first launched in 2007.
We’re not done yet. Several chapbooks are in production to launch very soon. Which will be our 200th title? Reply with your guess, and we’ll send a free copy of #200 to the first five readers who guess correctly.
Seriously, with so many moving parts (and you can’t spell parts without arts), we don’t even know right now who will take the 200th spot.
Stay tuned–and send energy–as we perform the spectacular feat of releasing five chapbooks in the month of June, starting with Ben Meyerson’s Near Enough and including new work by Jon Conley, Janine Certo, Steven Sanchez, and Cameron Gearen. These chapbooks will be dropping hot and fast, so check back to order your favorites.
If you’re a poet with a Pennsylvania connection, Series Editors Jeff Walt and Karen Weyant want to read your chapbook manuscript: the Keystone Chapbook Series is open through the end of June. Full guidelines here.
We are stoked to announce the lineup for Volume 8 of our limited-edition Summer Kitchen Series. Each title appears in an edition of only 49 copies: each author gets 25, and the remaining 24 copies are sold to fund the series. These can go quickly–sometimes within 24 hours!–so stay tuned for the publication announcement (we hope to bring out all four titles in August).
Please join us in welcoming these poets to Seven Kitchens Press!
What a lineup we have planned for the first half of 2019! Please take a moment to hover on our “In Production” tab to see a full list of titles forthcoming in 2019. You might also want to take advantage of two special pricing bundles for our Rane Arroyo Series and Editor’s Series!
For the sixth volume of our hot, limited-edition Summer Kitchen Series, we’re proud to announce the following selections, slated for publication (if we can keep up this pretty crazy production schedule) this July:
Please join us in congratulating these poets!
Just wanted to share the word about three titles we’ll be bringing out this winter: Musick’s Hand-maid, a sonnet crown/ elegy by Boyer Rickel; Dear Red Airplane, a reprint of Robin Reagler’s 2011 Summer Kitchen title, forthcoming as #8 in our ReBound Series; and Nothing Nice, by Jim Elledge, originally published in 1987 by Windfall Prophets Press and forthcoming as #9 in our ReBound Series. Our thanks to Laura Mullen and David Groff for nominating Robin’s and Jim’s chapbooks.
And thank you to everyone who has kindly supported Seven Kitchens over these past ten years. It’s a journey I could barely have imagined possible when we started out with our first title back in 2007.
Please join us in congratulating Wayne Johns and Sam Pittman, whose chapbook manuscripts have been selected by Ron Mohring and Dan Vera for the Rane Arroyo Chapbook Series.
Wayne Johns is the author of a previous chapbook, An Invisible Veil Between Us (Frank O’Hara Prize). His first book, Antipsalms, received the inaugural Audre Lorde and Frank O’Hara prize and is forthcoming from Oia Arts Press. The Exclusion Zone will be published this winter as Number 6 in the Rane Arroyo Chapbook Series.
Sam Pittman is a graduate of the MFA Program in Writing at the University of Pittsburgh, and holds a BA from the University of California, Berkeley. He writes and teaches English in Pittsburgh, PA, where he lives with his partner. Mostly Water, his first chapbook, will be published this winter as Number 7 in the Rane Arroyo Chapbook Series.
Deep thanks to Dan Vera for coming on board as co-editor of this series, and to all the writers who submitted work for our consideration. These new titles will both deepen and expand the range of this series, and we continue to be grateful to Glenn Sheldon for blessing this project in honor of Rane Arroyo.
Seven Kitchens Press will consider manuscripts for the 2017 Rane Arroyo Chapbook Series from October 1 – November 15, 2017.
2016 is shaping up to be a huge year for Seven Kitchens, and I’m thrilled to announce that the Editor’s Series will include new chapbooks from Liz Ahl and Dakota Garilli. Liz’s collection, Home Economics, is due out midsummer, and Dakota’s Call It Something Different is scheduled for an August release. Both titles were finalists for this year’s Robin Becker Chapbook Prize.
The hot, limited-edition Summer Kitchen Series will return this year, and we’ll lead off with a new chapbook from Mary Meriam: The Lesbian is due out in July, and you’re not going to want to miss your chance at one of only 49 copies.
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