Category Archives: Robin Becker Series

We’re here, we’re queer, and we want your poems

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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.

  • RJ Gibson, Scavenge
  • Christina Hutchins, Radiantly We Inhabit the Air
  • Ellen Goldberg, Each Perfect One
  • David J Daniels, indecency
  • Sarah B. Wiseman, Portraits
  • Doug Paul Case, Something to Hide My Face In
  • Ed Madden, So they can sing
  • Mary Ann Davis, Portrait of a Voice
  • Hannah Larrabee, Murmuration
  • Chris Philpot, The Way to the Citadel
  • Alec Hershman, Permanent and Wonderful Storage
  • Allison Blevins, A Season for Speaking
  • Yakov Azriel, Shadow in the Closet
  • Jamie Swanson, You May Unravel [forthcoming]

Erica Charis-Molling interview

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Our thanks to Robbie Gamble at Solstice Magazine for interviewing Erica about her chapbook, How We Burn. Click here to read!

Review: Nora Hikari’s GIRL 2.0

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Our thanks to Jay Dye for her deeply engaging review of Nora Hikari’s Girl 2.0–found here at Soapberry Review. It’s so gratifying to read Jay’s words–she really gets Nora’s work. We hope you will, too.

Dan Kraines, Licht (Robin Becker Series)

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We’re delighted to announce the publication of our 27th title in the Robin Becker Series: Licht by Dan Kraines, selected by series editor Steve Bellin-Oka, is available now for order. Our thanks to last year’s readers, Halsey Hyer and Rocky Halpern, who selected Dan’s manuscript along with two others in 2021. (Stay tuned for the reveal of our 2022 selections!) Please join us in welcoming Dan to the Seven Kitchens family.

Erica Charis-Molling, How We Burn (Robin Becker Series)

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Please join us in celebrating the release of Erica Charis-Molling’s chapbook, How We Burn, selected by series editor Steve Bellin-Oka as #26 in the Robin Becker Series. Order your copy here!

Robin Becker Series is open

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It’s spring. It’s winter. Flip a coin; here in Cincinnati we toggle back and forth almost daily. But one thing is certain: it’s April, and we are eagerly looking forward to reading your manuscripts for the Robin Becker Chapbook Series! Submission window closes on April 30, so please check out our complete guidelines and send us your very best work!

Nora Hikari, GIRL 2.0 (Robin Becker Series)

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Please join us in celebrating the release of our newest chapbook: selected by series editor Steve Bellin-Oka, Nora Hikari’s GIRL 2.0 is Number 25 in the Robin Becker Chapbook Series, and our 168th chapbook. Read a sample poem and order your copy here.

cover art: Paul Bilger

Brad Richard, In Place (Robin Becker Series)

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Please join us in celebrating the release of our newest chapbook: Brad Richard’s In Place is Number 24 in the Robin Becker Chapbook Series, and our 167th chapbook. Read a sample poem and order your copy here.

Robin Becker titles selected: Hikari, Kraines, Charis-Molling

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We are thrilled to announce the newest selections for our Robin Becker Series. Our series editor, Steve Bellin-Oka, and his editorial assistants, Halsey Heyer and Rocky Halpern, have selected three manuscripts for publication. Hearty congratulations to Nora Hikari, for Girl 2.0; Dan Kraines, for Licht; and Erica Charis-Molling, for How We Burn. Their chapbooks will be published this coming winter in hand-sewn editions of 100 copies, and each poet will receive 25 copies plus 10 review copies.

We hope you will support these poets by purchasing and reading their work. Review copies will be available; please email sevenkitchenspress@gmail.com for details.

We will again read manuscripts for the Robin Becker Series from April 1 – May 15 of 2022.

10 Questions for Daniel Barnum in Massachusetts Review

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Thanks to Edward Clifford & The Massachusetts Review for this quick interview with Daniel Barnum. Check it out!