Category Archives: Summer Kitchen Series

Christina Pacosz launches Summer Kitchen Series tomorrow!

We’re delighted to launch our third annual Summer Kitchen Series with the release of How to Measure the Darkness by Christina Pacosz. This is a limited-edition series; some copies are still available. Get the full details here.

Congratulations, Christina!

Sneak peek at first Summer Kitchen title: Christina Pacosz

Click here for a sneak peek at the gorgeous cover of Christina Pacosz‘s How to Measure the Darkness, Number 1 in the third volume of our limited-edition Summer Kitchen Series. There’s also a link where you can preorder your copy. Remember, for this series we’ll sell only 23 of each title; 25 copies will go to each author and one will go to your humble editor. Get ’em while they’re hot!

2012 titles

Following up on our teaser, we’re delighted to announce the lineup for next year’s Summer Kitchen Series: another set of five chapbooks published in limited edition print runs of 49 copies apiece. They are:

  • How to Measure the Darkness by Christina Pacosz – publishing June 21, 2012
  • Talking About the Weather by Liz Ahl – publishing July 1, 2012
  • Blood Work by Casey Charles – publishing July 11, 2012
  • Oh, James by Jill McDonough – publishing July 21, 2012
  • The Queer Texas Prayerbook by Crystal Boson – publishing August 1, 2012

We’re also happy to announce that we’ll publish JeFF Stumpo’s El Oceano y la Serpiente/The Ocean and the Serpent as Number 7 in our ReBound Series on May 1, 2012.

In October, we’ll publish Ed Madden’s My Father’s House as Number 6 in Volume Two of our Editor’s Series. And in March of 2013, we’ll publish David Eye’s Rain Leaping Up When a Cab Goes Past as Number 7 in the series. These titles were the runners-up for this year’s Robin Becker Chapbook Prize, and we’re so very happy that the poets were agreeable to publishing their work with us!

Finally, look for news about this year’s Keystone winners in December. And that will pretty much set the calendar for 2012! Thanks to you all for your continuing support.

Summer Kitchen Series #5: Ava Sayaka Rosen

We bid goodbye to summer with Ava Sayaka Rosen’s Rattle & Sway, Number Five in this year’s Summer Kitchen Series. Our congratulations to Ava, and our thanks to everyone for your support of this limited-edition series. Next year’s series will lead off with a new chapbook from Christina Pacosz!

Mary Meriam: Summer Kitchen #4, and Collin Kelley reading

A bit behind schedule, we’re delighted to bring out Mary Meriam’s exquisite The Poet’s Zodiac tomorrow, August 19, as Number 4 in our hot, hot Summer Kitchen Series. Please join us in congratulating Mary!

And if you’re in the Atlanta area, please come celebrate the reissue of Collin Kelley’s Slow to Burn, Number 4 in our visionary ReBound Series. Collin will read from StB, as well as new work, on Saturday, August 20th, 3pm at Bound to Be Read Books. Congratulations, Collin!

Summer Kitchen #3: Jonathan Bracker

Civilian Aboard U.S. Navy Ship at Sea: poems by Jonathan Bracker. Number 3 in the second volume of our limited-edition Summer Kitchen Series, publishing today, July 31!

Summer Kitchen Series #2: Celeste Gainey

In the land of speculation & seismography: poems by Celeste Gainey. Number 2 in the second volume of our limited-edition Summer Kitchen Series, publishing Monday, July 25. Thanks to a wave of pre-orders, this title sold out quickly, but the last three titles in this year’s series are still available.

Dear Red Airplane launches Summer Kitchen Series

Dear Red Airplane: poems by Robin Reagler. Number 1 in the second volume of our Summer Kitchen Series, publishing tomorrow, July 11. This is a limited-edition series, and only a handful of copies remain available of Robin’s title. Our sincere thanks to the kind folks who pre-ordered!

July 15 update: This title has sold out. You might be able to get a copy directly from the author, but our copies are all spoken for. Thanks again to everyone for your support of this series!

Gainey nearly sold out

Zowie! The pre-orders have flooded in for Celeste Gainey’s chapbook, and right now we have only three two copies left. If you have placed an order through snailmail, please e-mail us immediately and we’ll hold you a copy: sevenkitchens at yahoo dot com. Once our copies are spoken for, you’ll have to contact Celeste about purchasing directly from the author. Also, this means that if you were planning to buy the whole set–all five titles with free shipping–there are only three two chances left to do so.

Thanks for your overwhelming support of this title, and congratulations to Celeste!

June 21 update: That’s it, folks. This title is sold out. Thank you all so much!

Preorder your Summer Kitchen titles now

The links are up and it’s time to pre-order your Summer Kitchen chapbooks. Click on each title below to place your order, or click here to order all five titles with free shipping!

Robin Reagler: Dear Red Airplane

Celeste Gainey: In the land of speculation & seismography

Jonathan Bracker: Civilian Aboard U.S. Navy Ship at Sea

Mary Meriam: The Poet’s Zodiac

Ava Sayaka Rosen: The Express