We’ve updated the “In production” tab to include new pages for Leonard Kress & Catherine Staples, whose Keystone Prize-winning chapbooks will come out in April & May. You can read a sample poem on each writer’s page. Stay tuned for the 2011 Summer Kitchen Series announcement–we’re just about to post these as well.
Our thanks to Bernie Geyer for her fresh review of RJ Gibson’s Scavenge, Number 4 in our Robin Becker Series. If you, too would like to review one of our chapbooks, just send an e-mail to sevenkitchens at that yahoo place with “review” in the subject line.
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The results are in: this year’s guest judge, Betsy Sholl, has selected “Never a Note Forfeit,” by Catherine Staples, as the winning manuscript among writers with no previous chapbook publication for this year’s Keystone Prize. The runner-up manuscript was Jillian Barnett’s “You Don’t Need a Nose (and Other Things I’ve Learned).”
From the manuscripts by writers with previous chapbook or book publication, Betsy has selected “Braid & Other Sestinas” by Leonard Kress. The runner-up manuscript was “Appalachian Venus” by Melody Davis.
Leonard’s chapbook will be published in April 2011, and Catherine’s will be published in May 2011.
We want to thank everyone who submitted work, shared the word, and helped to make this the most successful year ever for the Keystone Series. With your support, Seven Kitchens continues to grow and uphold our commitment to publish strong, original poetry in handmade editions that our authors can be proud of. Special thanks to Betsy Sholl for serving as this year’s judge.
Next year’s Keystone Series has a new reading period: July 1 to August 15, 2011. Please mark your calendars!
It’s a joy to announce tomorrow’s release of Naomi Lazard’s Ordinances, Number Two in our ReBound Series, published with an introduction by the inimitable Edward Field. Spread the word! Order yours today!
Please drop by the Fiddler Crab Review to read Susan Jo Russell’s lovely review of Jeff Walt’s Soot, co-winner of last year’s Keystone Chapbook Prize. Our thanks to Emily and her fine staff of reviewers!
Please drop by Lorcaloca, Eduardo Corral’s blog, to read the Summer Kitchen Series e-talk between Daniel Nathan Terry and Ed Madden! Thanks, Eduardo!
Guidelines are now up for the new, revamped Editor’s Prize (click on the “guidelines” tab at our main page). The reading period is January 1 – February 15, so get those chapbooks cookin’, folks.
We’ve just learned that Katie Bode-Lang’s Spring Melt has won the 2010 New England Poetry Club’s Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize for a chapbook of poems published in the last two years. NEPC was founded by Robert Frost, Amy Lowell, and Conrad Aiken in 1915. Katie has been invited to read on December 6 at Harvard. Please join us in congratulating Katie for this wonderful achievement.
TONIGHT: Tuesday, Sept 28, 8-9 pm: Jeff Oaks & Stacey Waite will read their poems at Sphinx Cafe, 401 Atwood St in Pittsburgh. We wish we could be there to cheer on two of our favorite poets!
Thanks again to all the good folks at this year’s Small Press Festival in Pittsburgh, who made our first public foray into the Small Press Wonder Tent so effortless and enjoyable. I bopped down to Carlisle to pick up Kari Larsen and we zipped over to Pittsburgh via the the tollway through the first blush of early-autumn foliage. It was great to browse and chat with the other vendors/writers/artists and to get such a positive response to our catalog. The overwhelming “I-must-pick-this-up-and-check-it-out” title was Terry Kirts’ To the Refrigerator Gods. We set up next to David McNamara’s fabulous sunnyoutside table and enjoyed two days of friendly, engaging, and helpful bookchat (as well as a bit of Red Sox/DamnYankees banter). I met Noel Sloboda, whose poems I first encountered back when I was on staff at West Branch; had a lovely meeting & chat with Karen Weyant & her partner; finally met the awesome RJ Gibson; and got to hang out & have breakfast with the delightful Jeff Oaks. So many beautiful books–I wanted one of each! Already looking forward to doing this again next year.
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