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 delighted to announce that our Series Editor, Steve Bellin-Oka, has selected two chapbooks for publication in the Robin Becker Series: Lowercase Gods by Christopher Nelson, and Night Terrors by Dana Belott. Our thanks to Joshua Davis for serving as first reader this year. Both chapbooks will be published early in 2026. Please join us in congratulating the poets!
Christopher Nelson is the author of Blood Aria (University of Wisconsin Press, 2021)
and five chapbooks, including Blue House, winner of a Poetry Society of America
Fellowship, and Love Song for the New World (Seven Kitchens Press, 2019). A
recipient of the Amy Lowell Traveling Scholarship and a Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, he
is the founding editor of Green Linden Press, a nonprofit publisher dedicated to poetic
excellence and reforestation. He has edited two anthologies, Essential Voices: Poetry of
Iran and Its Diaspora, which received a Midwest Book Award, and Essential Queer
Voices of U.S. Poetry. Visit christophernelson.info.
Dana Belott is a trans poet, multidisciplinary artist, and teacher from woodsy NJ. Their work explores ghosts, queer desire, and the body. Dana received their MFA from Pratt Institute after 5 years teaching creative writing in middle and high schools. They have published over 50 volumes of their students’ writing and are dedicated to art-making as a community practice.
Seven Kitchens Press is proud to sponsor the annual Robin Becker Chapbook Series for an original, unpublished poetry manuscript by an LGBTQ+ writer. This series, initiated in 2008, honors Robin Becker and her continuing accomplishments as a poet, professor, and mentor. We are happy to have Steve Bellin-Oka as our series editor since 2021, and we are especially proud to celebrate your queer work!
Manuscripts are considered annually during the month of April. Full guidelines may be found here.
We’re thrilled to announce the publication of The Orchid in Lieu of a Horse by Jon Riccio as Number 31 in our Robin Becker Series. Please join us in welcoming Jon to the Seven Kitchens family, and then click here to read a sample poem and order your copy!
The next reading period for the Robin Becker Series will be in April.
We’re thrilled to announce the newest titles to be included in the Robin Becker Series. Our series editor, Steve Bellin-Oka, has selected Kitchen Small-Talk by Regina Ruggiero of Manchester, UK, and Forests of Woundedness by Jan Wiezorek of Buchanan, Michigan. Each chapbook will be published in an edition of 100 hand-tied copies. Please join us in welcoming these poets to the Seven Kitchens family! We hope you will support their work.
We would also like to announce the runner-up manuscript, Dead Time Carousel by Michael Russell of Toronto, Ontario, and to thank everyone who sent us their poems, which were read with great care and deliberation.
Seven Kitchens Press never charges a reading fee. We rely solely on your purchases to fund our literary endeavor. Thank you, one and all, for your support.
Since 2008, Seven Kitchens Press has proudly sponsored the annual Robin Becker Chapbook Series for original, unpublished poetry manuscripts by writers identifying as LGBTQ+. To date, we have published 30 titles in the series; 29 are still in print. Our series editor is Steve Bellin-Oka. Won’t you send us your work?
Our fifteenth release this year is J Swanson’s You May Unravel, selected by series editor Steve Bellin-Oka as Number 29 in our Robin Becker Series. Please join us in celebrating their new chapbook.
Our third title of the year is Yakov Azriel’s Shadow in the Closet, a compelling sequence of formal sonnets selected by series editor Steve Bellin-Oka as Number 28 in our Robin Becker Series. Some of these poems originally appeared in Mark Ward’s journal Impossible Archetype. We are so happy to publish the entire collection. Please join us in welcoming Yakov to the Seven Kitchens family.
We welcome poetry manuscripts during the month of April for our annual Robin Becker Series for LGBTQ+ writers. Two manuscripts will be selected for publication by series editor Steve Bellin-Oka. A $10 donation entitles you to any of the titles in this series listed below. Find full guidelines here.
Our thanks to Robbie Gamble at Solstice Magazine for interviewing Erica about her chapbook, How We Burn. Click here to read!
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