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!
It’s our pleasure to announce the three titles selected from our January reading period to be published in our limited-edition Summer Kitchen Series: Vivian Kao’s Daughters of the Republic, James Lee’s Bee Suit, and Ben Sloan’s Two Loose Wires. Look for these chapbooks this summer, and please join us in congratulating the poets!
Vivian Kao lives in Flint, Michigan, and teaches English at Mott Community College. She is the author of a book of poems, Dear Mrs. River-Dragon (Another New Calligraphy, 2024), which was a finalist for the Wheelbarrow Poetry Prize. She was the 2024-25 Writer-in-Residence at the Buckham Fine Arts Project, and her volume of poems written in response to Buckham Art Gallery’s 2024-25 season will be published in March 2026.
James Lee received an M.F.A. from the University of California, Irvine, where he studied under poets Gabrielle Calvocoressi, James McMichael and Michael Ryan. His poems have appeared in the minnesota review, Juked, and Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. He is currently at work on a manuscript of poems tentatively titled, “Cheating the House.” He teaches writing and lives in upstate South Carolina with his wife and two children.
Ben Sloan grew up on a farm in southeast Missouri and currently lives in Charlottesville VA. He holds an MFA from Brooklyn College where he studied with John Ashbery. He has two poetry chapbooks, The Road Home (Thirty West Publishing House 2017) and Then On Out Into a Cloudless Sky (Seven Kitchens Press 2023).
Our Summer Kitchen Series continues with the release of Tomas Tranströmer Comes to Ohio by Robert Miltner, Number 2 in Volume 13. There are only 24 copies available (Robert gets the other 25), so act fast to get yours! Please join us in congratulating Robert, and click here to read a sample poem and order your copy.
Our Summer Kitchen Series launches today with the release of Late in the Day by Lisa Low, Number 1 in Volume 13. There are only 24 copies available (Lisa gets the other 25), so act fast to get yours! Please join us in congratulating Lisa, and click here to read a sample poem and order your copy.
We’re delighted to announce the lineup for our 2025 Summer Kitchen Series. Please join us in welcoming these four poets to the Seven Kitchens family:
Lisa Low, for Late in the Day: Lisa’s essays, book reviews, and interviews have appeared in The Massachusetts Review, The Boston Review, and The Adroit Journal. Her poetry has been shortlisted for Ploughshares and is published in or forthcoming in many literary journals, among them Hopkins Review, Pleiades, Louisiana Literature, Pennsylvania English, Conduit, and Southern Indiana Review.
Robert Miltner, for Tomas Tranströmer Comes to Ohio: Robert is a life-long Ohioan who grew up in Cleveland and Avon Lake on the north coast of Ohio and currently lives in North Canton and Northeast Ohio in the Great Lakes geography and culture. Miltner is the author of fifteen poetry/prose poetry chapbooks, including Against the Simple, (Wick Poetry Center Ohio Chapbook Award), Eurydice Rising (Red Berry Editions Summer Poetry Chapbook award), and Horse Skull Moon (SurVision Press/James Tate Poetry prize); as well as three full-length poetry/prose poetry collections: Hotel Utopia (New Rivers Press Poetry award), Orpheus & Echo (National Poetry Series finalist), and Always the Geography Leans in on Me (Press 53 Poetry Prize finalist) forthcoming from MadHat Press, Fall 2025).
Laurie Kutchins, for Sketches for a Dead Renaissance: Laurie is a poet and lyric nonfiction writer. Her poems and essays have appeared widely in publications such as The Georgia Review, The Kenyon Review, The New Yorker, Orion Magazine, Poetry, Ploughshares, The Southern Review, and in several anthologies. Her first book of poetry, Between Towns, won the first-book award from Texas Tech University Press, and two subsequent books are published by BOA Editions: The Night Path (1997) and Slope of the Child Everlasting (2007).
Dustin King, for Courteous Gringo: Dustin’s poems have appeared in The Potomac Review, The Tusculum Review, Ligeia, and other rad spots. He is a Best of the Net nominee
and a poetry editor for Sublunary Review. He curates the poetry and performance event “Yodel Farm.” His first chapbook, Last Echo, is forthcoming from Bottlecap Features.
Each January, we open the window for our Summer Kitchen Series. Two manuscripts will be selected for publication in summer of 2025. We never charge a reading fee. Full guidelines are here.
Our Summer Kitchen Series concludes with the release of Connie Wieneke’s What Couldn’t Be Fixed, #4 in this year’s volume and published in a limited edition of only 49 copies (25 go to the poet, and the other 24 are only available on the Seven Kitchens site). Please join us in welcoming Connie to the Seven Kitchens family, and then click here to read a sample poem.
UPDATE: This chapbook is sold out. Thanks for your support!
Our Summer Kitchen Series rolls into August with the release of Robert Fanning’s Prince of the Air, #3 in this year’s volume. Published in a limited edition of only 49 copies (25 go to the poet, and the other 24 are only available on the Seven Kitchens site). Please join us in welcoming Robert to the Seven Kitchens family, and then click here to read a sample poem and order your copy!
Our hot, hot Summer Kitchen Series continues with Karen McPherson’s Long for This World, #2 in this year’s volume. Published in a limited edition of only 49 copies (25 go to the poet, and the other 24 are only available on the Seven Kitchens site). Please join us in welcoming Karen to the Seven Kitchens family, and then click here to read a sample poem and order your copy!
Our hot, hot Summer Kitchen Series is back! Leading off is Trevor Moffa’s Always, hopefully, soon in a limited edition of only 49 copies (25 go to the poet, and the other 24 are only available on the Seven Kitchens site. Please join us in welcoming Trevor to the Seven Kitchens family, and click here to order your copy now!
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