Many thanks to Dave Bonta over at Via Negativa for his lovely, insightful review of Household of Water, Moon, & Snow by Todd Davis. The review posted last week; we’re a little slow here but very much enjoyed reading it this evening.
It’s fascinating how a good review can lead us to reconsider poems we thought were already familiar: having typeset, proofread, and assembled many copies of Household, I was nonetheless invited into these poems all over again. Thanks, Dave.
Well, it was bound to happen. Because your humble editor neglected to thoroughly proofread the posted guidelines, the deadline was listed as May 15. For this year only, we will therefore extend the submission deadline from April 15 to May 15. (You’re welcome.) For those of you scrambling to get manuscripts into the mail, relax. For anyone who wants to take advantage of the (accidentally) extended deadline and submit a revised manuscript (not that there’s anything wrong with what you’ve already sent), that’s okay, too.
Our thanks again to the great folks at Fiddler Crab Review for their interview featuring Seven Kitchens Press on their two-year anniversary. Please visit their site (often!) and send them chapbooks for review.
To celebrate National Poetry Month, we will offer free shipping on all Seven Kitchens titles. Simply omit the shipping cost if paying by check; if you’re using our Buy Now buttons via Paypal, we’ll promptly refund the difference on orders received during the month of April.
Finally, we appreciate your patience if we (that is to say, I) have taken longer than usual to get your chapbooks into the mail. I’m printing, folding, trimming & sewing as fast as I can while trying to think creatively about how to move beyond our current one-person operation yet maintain our standards of quality (ideas are welcome; please e-mail me: ron.mohring@gmail.com).
In just over two weeks–April 15–the submission period will close for the 4th annual Robin Becker Chapbook Prize. Spread the word! Order a prize-winning title! Send us your work! We’d love to make this the biggest year yet for the Becker Prize. Thanks so much for your continued support.
Full guidelines here: https://sevenkitchenspress.wordpress.com/series-guidelines/guidelines-the-robin-becker-chapbook-prize/
We’re happy to announce that Terry Kirts’ chapbook, To the Refrigerator Gods, has just gone into its second printing! First released in July 2010, Terry’s chapbook is Number Eight in our Editor’s Series. A limited number of signed, early-numbered copies are still available at $10 each–to order, just send an e-mail to sevenkitchens at yahoo dot com. All “regular” orders will receive copies from the second printing. Congratulations, Terry!
Please join us in congratulating Heather Burns on today’s publication of her chapbook, Between Careen and Caution, with awesome cover art by Joan Stuart Ross. Heather’s chapbook is Number 11 in our amazing Editor’s Series.
Next up will be Number 12 in the series, the long-awaited release of Pedro Ponce’s Homeland: A Panorama in 50 States. Look for it in March!
We’re thrilled to announce that Judith Barrington will judge this year’s Robin Becker Chapbook Prize. Judith is the author of three poetry collections, a prizewinning memoir, and a text on writing literary memoir. The poetry books are: Horses and the Human Soul, History and Geography, and Trying to be an Honest Woman. She has also recorded a CD of selected poems titled Harvest. Prose books are: Lifesaving: A Memoir (winner of the Lambda Book Award and finalist for the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir), and Writing the Memoir: From Truth to Art which is used in numerous writing programs. Most recently, she has published two poetry chapbooks: Postcard from the Bottom of the Sea (8th Mountain Press) and Lost Lands (selected by Robin Becker as winner of the inaugural Robin Becker Chapbook Prize).
The reading period for the Robin Becker Prize is March 1 – April 15; complete guidelines are posted here.
We’re happy to announce the imminent release of two new chapbooks: Letter to Frank O’Hara by Steve Turtell, winner of the 2010 ReBound Prize, which drops on February 14, and Between Careen and Caution by Heather Burns, #11 in our Editor’s Series, which will publish on February 28.
Pre-orders are being accepted now for Steve’s chapbook, and Heather’s will be available for pre-order very soon. Please join us in welcoming our two newest authors!
Please join us in congratulating Austin Gray on his soon-to-be-released chapbook, The Mystery of Horses, selected by Eloise Klein Healy as co-winner of the 2010 Robin Becker Chapbook Prize along with Christina Hutchins’ Radiantly We Inhabit the Air. Pre-orders are now being accepted for this title, which is scheduled for official release on January 27.
Over the next week, we will e-mail poets who entered manuscripts for the 2010 series to ask which title you’d like to receive. If you have changed your e-mail or postal address since this past summer, please contact us.
We’re thrilled to announce the imminent release of Christina Hutchins’ latest collection, Radiantly We Inhabit the Air, selected by Eloise Klein Healy as co-winner of the 2010 Robin Becker Chapbook Prize. Pre-orders are now being accepted for this title, which is scheduled for official release on January 21.
Please stay tuned for more news on the other co-winning title–Austin Gray’s The Mystery of Horses–also due out this month.
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