Our hot, hot Summer Kitchen Series continues with Karen McPherson’s Long for This World, #2 in this year’s volume. Published in a limited edition of only 49 copies (25 go to the poet, and the other 24 are only available on the Seven Kitchens site). Please join us in welcoming Karen to the Seven Kitchens family, and then click here to read a sample poem and order your copy!
We’re thrilled to announce the newest titles to be included in the Robin Becker Series. Our series editor, Steve Bellin-Oka, has selected Kitchen Small-Talk by Regina Ruggiero of Manchester, UK, and Forests of Woundedness by Jan Wiezorek of Buchanan, Michigan. Each chapbook will be published in an edition of 100 hand-tied copies. Please join us in welcoming these poets to the Seven Kitchens family! We hope you will support their work.
We would also like to announce the runner-up manuscript, Dead Time Carousel by Michael Russell of Toronto, Ontario, and to thank everyone who sent us their poems, which were read with great care and deliberation.
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We are proud to announce the release of our third July chapbook: John Repp’s Star Shine in the Pines is the first title in Volume 6 of our Editor’s Series, and it’s John’s third chapbook with Seven Kitchens Press. Please check out his poems, and click here to order your copy now!
We are proud to announce the release of our second July chapbook: Erik Schuckers’ Pretty Boys in Trouble was selected by Keystone Series editors Karen J. Weyant and Jeff Walt as #27 in our longest-running chapbook series. Please join us in welcoming Erik to the Seven Kitchens family, and click here to order your copy now!
Our hot, hot Summer Kitchen Series is back! Leading off is Trevor Moffa’s Always, hopefully, soon in a limited edition of only 49 copies (25 go to the poet, and the other 24 are only available on the Seven Kitchens site. Please join us in welcoming Trevor to the Seven Kitchens family, and click here to order your copy now!
We’re delighted to announce the lineup for this year’s Summer Kitchen Series. Thank you to everyone who sent in their manuscripts for consideration. Each of the following titles will be published this summer in a limited edition of 49 copies. Authors will receive 25 copies of their work, and the remaining copies will be available–while they last–on our website. Congratulations to:
Please join us in welcoming these poets to the Seven Kitchens family!
Our original and oldest-running series welcomes manuscripts by poets with a Pennsylvania connection during the month of June. Series editors Karen J. Weyant and Jeff Walt look forward to reading your work! Full guidelines available here.
We are proud to announce the selection of two manuscripts for the Allison Joseph Series: elegy-ish by Sheila Carter-Jones, and Everything But the Bones by Fia Montero. We hope to publish both chapbooks this October. Please join us in welcoming these poets to the Seven Kitchens family.
Thank you to everyone who submitted work to the Allison Joseph Series. It was an honor to read such brilliant, diverse voices. Our next reading period will open in November.
Since 2008, Seven Kitchens Press has proudly sponsored the annual Robin Becker Chapbook Series for original, unpublished poetry manuscripts by writers identifying as LGBTQ+. To date, we have published 30 titles in the series; 29 are still in print. Our series editor is Steve Bellin-Oka. Won’t you send us your work?
Hi. Ron here. I want to be fully transparent about our selection process for the Allison Joseph Series, and to invite folks to help out if they can.
Our first two published chapbooks in the series, by Paloma Martinez-Cruz and Asani Charles, have been well supported (thank you). Last spring, however, we received no manuscripts. It was a shock, because I fully believe in this series and feel that it absolutely represents our commitment to publishing a diverse range of poets. So I decided to move the window to November, which would give me time to reach out individually to hundreds of poets of color–which I did, by email, in hopes of spreading the word and bringing in new work.
In November, we received seven manuscripts. Three have now been accepted for publication elsewhere. I would have gladly published one or two of them, but that’s not possible now.
How, you might wonder, does it take three months to decide among seven manuscripts? The answer: it shouldn’t. But this has not been an ideal year for me or for our series editor–we’ve both had personal challenges–I am okay to talk about my own but that’s all I will say publicly.
So we are left with four manuscripts, each with promise, but none at the level of the first year’s selections (I am so sorry to say). I can’t in good faith promote publication of any of the remaining four manuscripts.
I am reopening the submission window for the Allison Joseph Series for the month of March. I am enlisting the help of two new readers. If you would like to be a reader, please contact me at sevenkitchenspress@gmail.com. If you would like to send work, we would love to consider it. If you could share this opportunity with eligible poets (BIPOC women writers), thank you.
I welcome your comments, well-wishes, critical input. If Seven Kitchens has failed to adequately promote and support this series, the fault would be mine.
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