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.
We’re so excited to announce that Daniel’s chapbook manuscript, Days of Dark Miracles, will be published in June 2011 as Number 13 in our Editor’s Series! You can follow updates about this title here.
The Historical Society of Montgomery County, 1654 DeKalb Street in Norristown, PA, presents a reading by Rebecca Lauren on Saturday, September 12 at 2 pm; copies of The Schwenkfelders will be available (we hope). If you’re in the Philadelphia area, please come out to support this fine poet.
The reading period for this year’s ReBound Series, which selects out-of-print chapbooks to publish in fresh, new editions, is now open (until October 15). Please spread the word, and please consider nominating a deserving out-of-print chapbook! Complete guildelines may be found here.
Seven Kitchens will be in attendance at the Small Press Festival in Pittsburgh, September 25 & 26. Please drop by our table if you’re in the area!
Pre-orders are now being accepted for Gabriel Welsch’s An Eye Fluent in Gray, Number 9 in our Editor’s Series, due out September 15.
Preview the cover, read a sample poem, and click to pre-order from here.
Our thanks to Bernie Geyer and Leslie Hayertz for their new reviews of Christina Pacosz’s Notes from the Red Zone, Number 1 in our ReBound Series. The submission period for this series runs from September 1 – October 15; if you know of an out-of-print chapbook that deserves nomination for republication in a fresh, new edition, please check out our guidelines.
-SKiP
