2025: Manuscripts received

[ Manuscripts are posted here as they are received, alphabetically by title. Please check back often & remember to refresh this page. Thank you for sending your work to Seven Kitchens Press. ]

The Allison Joseph Chapbook Series
(postmarked or emailed between November 1 and November 30, 2025)

  • Even Paradise Can Rot
  • hold space for the wound
  • My mother is a mixed metaphor
  • The War Took Our Names

The Rane Arroyo Chapbook Series
(postmarked or emailed between October 1 and October 31, 2025)

  • An Algebra of Absence
  • Apocalypse: The Side of Death
  • The Blossoming Fire
  • A Blur in Time
  • Bodies of Water
  • The Buzzing of the Blue Guitar
  • Care Instructions
  • Cholo Mysticism
  • Collapsing Corridors
  • Dream Economy
  • Engliens
  • fairytale
  • Family of Abnormal Sensations
  • Forevertown
  • Freedom for dead
  • From Mud and Ash
  • Fruition
  • The Green Pheasant Facing North
  • Huesca
  • I Burn . . .
  • In Memory’s Mirror
  • Land of the Living
  • Learning Resiliency Poetry Edition
  • Littlest Sister of Mercy
  • Mi Mundo
  • No Place Else
  • Palatable Woman
  • Paradise
  • Persephone Responds
  • Picasso, It’s Time to Sit Down and Talk Seriously
  • The Pink Highway
  • Purgatory Files
  • Raisinated
  • Riding Bareback
  • Same Dreadful Typewriter
  • Searching for the Better options Menu
  • Sometimes I Speak Your Name
  • Song for Louisa
  • Spicebush Lemon
  • Spooky Action at a Distance
  • Still Becoming: Echoes of the Republic
  • Sunlight in the Shade
  • tatha
  • Tercets for the Doves
  • To Live in the Grace of Gaia
  • Weep Holes
  • What Doesn’t Quiet
  • What is left on the shore
  • Who’ll Bell the Cat?
  • Women Making Soup Together

The Keystone Chapbook Series
(postmarked or emailed between June 1 and June 30, 2025)

  • The Darkness Passing Over Her
  • Death Is a Forgotten Love Poem
  • Entering the Water
  • Even Goddesses Need Smoke Breaks
  • Falling Into You—forthcoming from Emily Pera
  • Groundhog Unearthed
  • Hive
  • Infinity Ballot
  • Late Practice—forthcoming from Noah Davis
  • Listening for Trucks
  • Llano Estacado
  • Nearby and Away
  • Object Permanence
  • Postcards from Small Gyres
  • Propagating Family Trees
  • The Religion of Hunting
  • Reverse Engineer
  • The secret jazz of the body
  • Small Moments
  • Superbloom
  • This Apparently Tranquil Sea
  • A Time Series Analysis
  • Tiny Houses for the Dead
  • To Kiss a Ghost
  • Urbanity
  • Wilderness Bardo: Poems from the Backcountry
  • World Building #1

The Robin Becker Series
(postmarked or emailed between April 1 and April 30, 2025)

  • And Growing
  • At the End of Every Day
  • Big Divine Feminine Swagger
  • Direct Address
  • Escape from the Divine Comedy
  • Fifteen Steps into the Sea
  • The Greatest Show on Earth
  • Journography
  • Kaleidoscope Rain
  • Lip Balm, Loose Change, Handkerchief
  • Look Back
  • Love Is But a Dream
  • Lowercase God—forthcoming from Christopher Nelson
  • Mother’s Milk
  • night terrors—forthcoming from Dana Belott
  • Plastic Plato Pinot Noir
  • Queer Joy Is Scary
  • Riverring
  • Robber Bride
  • Self Portrait as a Barn
  • Soft Thing
  • Subway
  • untamed honey
  • upon waking
  • Wind-Eye

The A.V. Christie Series
(postmarked or emailed between February 1 and February 28, 2025)

  • Are You There? The Line Is Open
  • Balance
  • The Beat of Time
  • Bee Frequency
  • Braking on a Dime
  • Bury As You Go
  • A Conference of Ovals
  • The Dark Start of Things
  • Days of Narrow Time
  • The Different Qualities of Morning and Night
  • Forget
  • Fossil Knowledge
  • From sea to shining sea
  • Gen X
  • Geneaology
  • Geographies
  • Hanging On or Letting Go
  • A Harmony in the Key of Trees
  • Here, Where You Are
  • The Higher Call
  • HumAnimal
  • Illuminated Places
  • A Life of Small Resistances
  • Lies for Special Occasions
  • Load-Bearing Walls
  • Lucid Dreams
  • Matters of Consequence
  • The Meta-Garden
  • My Ear Is a Magnet for Music
  • My Man—forthcoming from Esperanza Cintron
  • My Mother’s Red Lipstick
  • Pint-Sized Wonders
  • Pressed in Time
  • Remaking
  • Revere the Salvage
  • riding the river current bird on a log
  • The Rings of Saturn
  • Sistered Rafters
  • Sky Over
  • Slasher
  • Song for the Last of a Kind
  • The Specialists
  • Spreading the Light
  • The Stillness Is Manna
  • Sunflowers and Bony Wings—forthcoming from Gail BenEzra
  • The Story of the Stones
  • The Third Remembrance
  • This Tangle of Light and Shadow
  • Through the Blue Horizon
  • To Live in the Grace of Gaia
  • To Take Wing
  • Unidentified Domestic Object
  • Waiting for Snow
  • Waters
  • What is left on the shore
  • When Heaven Presses Down
  • A Woman of the Palace

The Summer Kitchen Series
(postmarked or emailed between January 1 and January 31, 2025)

  • 372
  • Afghanistan Delivered
  • After the Rain
  • Anatomy of a Bypass
  • BURNS
  • Child’s Play
  • Courteous Gringo—forthcoming from Dustin King
  • DAYTIMEPOET
  • Dreamescapes
  • Drink from the River
  • Family Savasana
  • Her Reluctant Angels
  • In Search of What’s Been Forgotten
  • Late in the Day by Lisa Low
  • Lilac in the Sky with Ashtrays
  • Little Viper
  • Margot
  • Metadata
  • Prey
  • The Queen
  • Risk
  • School of Bright Ideas
  • Sketches for a Dead Renaissance—forthcoming from Laurie Kutchins
  • The Sky Is Always Finishing
  • Soothsayer Remedies
  • Spotting the Rise
  • Techne
  • Tomas Tranströmer Comes to Ohio by Robert Miltner
  • Wild Shelter