Feinstein will judge Keystone Prize

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We’re delighted to announce that Sascha Feinstein will judge this year’s Keystone Chapbook Prize. Feinstein received the Hayden Carruth Award for his poetry collection Misterioso. Recent books include a memoir, Black Pearls: Improvisations on a Lost Year, and a collection of interviews, Ask Me Now: Conversations on Jazz & Literature.  He is Professor of English at Lycoming College, where he co-directs the Creative Writing Program and edits Brilliant Corners: A Journal of Jazz & Literature.

The reading period for this year’s Keystone Chapbook Prize opens July 1. Check our submission guidelines tab for full details.

HOMELAND: A Panorama in 50 States by Pedro Ponce

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We’re so happy to announce the publication of our first full-length collection, Pedro Ponce’s HOMELAND: A Panorama in 50 States, selected as Number Twelve in our Editor’s Series. The cover art is by Roxanne Carter, and the cover design is by the amazing Kari Larsen. This gorgeous 59-page (chap)book is assembled using Japanese stab binding; we know you’ll love it as much as we do.

JeFF Stumpo at Art Amok

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Click here to watch a video of JeFF Stumpo reading and performing at Art Amok in Atlanta on May 13. Included are some poems from The Icarus Sketches.

Preorder Braids & Other Sestinas by Leonard Kress

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 We’re now accepting pre-orders for Braids & Other Sestinas by Leonard Kress, which was selected by Betsy Sholl as co-winner of the 2010 Keystone Chapbook Prize. Copies should be ready to mail out by the first week of June; we’ll fill pre-orders first and then start sending out complimentary copies to the folks who entered a manuscript last year and have selected Braids as your preferred title. (The other co-winner, Never a Note Forfeit by Catherine Staples, is currently in production.)

Look for a fresh author page and ordering information under our “Our Books” tab; it should be up within 24 hours.

Terry Kirts in Literal Latte

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Congrats to Terry Kirts, whose poem “Dance of the Cakes” (from To the Refrigerator Gods) has been published in Literal Latte!

Review of Todd Davis chapbook

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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.

Robin Becker Chapbook – deadline extended

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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.

Interview at Fiddler Crab Review; Poetry Month sale

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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).

Two weeks remain: Get those Becker chapbooks in!

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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/

Terry Kirts: Second printing

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 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!