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.
Happy New Year to all our readers and writers. We’re excited to open our call for submissions to the Editor’s Prize Series–full details can be found here. Manuscripts will be accepted from January 1 until February 15. Please share the word!
While you’re browsing the guidelines, please take a look at our “In Production” tab to check out all the titles we’re launching in 2011, starting with Pedro Ponce’s Homeland: A Panorama in 50 States, due out in early January.
UPDATE: Pedro’s book has been delayed; we’re aiming to release it–at long last–in March. Please check his author page for more news & updates.
Our thanks to Laurie Rosenblatt for her fine, probing review of Rebecca Lauren’s The Schwenkfelders–posted today at the Fiddler Crab Review. Check it out!
Please join us in congratulating the winner of this year’s ReBound Chapbook Prize, Steve Turtell, for his chapbook Letter to Frank O’Hara (P & Q Press, 2000). Steve’s chapbook will be brought out in a fresh, new edition on February 14, 2011. (Yeah, we thought that would be a nice valentine to Frank O’Hara.) More news about Steve and his chapbook will be posted here on his author page.
We are triply excited to announce that three more titles in the ReBound Series will come out next year: Jeffrey Beam‘s Midwinter Fires (French Broad Press, 1990); Louis McKee‘s No Matter (Pig in a Poke Press, 1987); and Collin Kelley‘s Slow to Burn (MetroMania Press, 2006). [Click on author’s name for more details and updates as we move ahead.]
Congratulations to all four poets and deepest thanks to all who have supported this vital project by spreading the word, nominating outstanding chapbooks, and purchasing titles in this series. We couldn’t do it without you.
Household of Water, Moon, & Snow: The Thoreau Poems by Todd Davis officially launches today! Number 10 in our Editor’s Series, and just waiting to come home to you.
It may be snowing like mad up in Minnesota, but here in central PA we’re thinking summer. Specifically, the second hot wave of our Summer Kitchen Series. Here, in the order of their scheduled appearance, are the titles we’re bringing out next July and August (check for updates on individual titles under the “In production” tab):
Please join us in welcoming these poets to Seven Kitchens. And just wait till you see the covers!
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