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
Here’s a peek at our upcoming Summer Kitchen Series: five limited-edition chapbooks launching over the months of July and August. We’ll be set up for pre-ordering by this weekend!
Please join us in congratulating the co-winners of our inaugural Editor’s Prize: Roxanne Halpine Ward (for This Electric Glow) and Jeffrey Ethan Lee (for Towards Euphoria). Both manuscripts will be published by Seven Kitchens Press; our preliminary schedule has the release dates set for January and February of 2012. These new titles will launch Volume Two of our Editor’s Series.
Our sincere thanks to everyone who submitted work and shared the word. We couldn’t do this without you.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Congrats to Terry Kirts, whose poem “Dance of the Cakes” (from To the Refrigerator Gods) has been published in Literal Latte!
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.
