We are thrilled to announce the publication of Christopher Nelson’s lowercase gods, Number 33 in our Robin Becker Series, selected by series editor Steve Bellin-Oka. Please join us in congratulating Christopher, and click here to read a sample poem and order your copy.
We are delighted to announce that our Series Editor, Steve Bellin-Oka, has selected two chapbooks for publication in the Robin Becker Series: Lowercase Gods by Christopher Nelson, and Night Terrors by Dana Belott. Our thanks to Joshua Davis for serving as first reader this year. Both chapbooks will be published early in 2026. Please join us in congratulating the poets!
Christopher Nelson is the author of Blood Aria (University of Wisconsin Press, 2021)
and five chapbooks, including Blue House, winner of a Poetry Society of America
Fellowship, and Love Song for the New World (Seven Kitchens Press, 2019). A
recipient of the Amy Lowell Traveling Scholarship and a Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, he
is the founding editor of Green Linden Press, a nonprofit publisher dedicated to poetic
excellence and reforestation. He has edited two anthologies, Essential Voices: Poetry of
Iran and Its Diaspora, which received a Midwest Book Award, and Essential Queer
Voices of U.S. Poetry. Visit christophernelson.info.
Dana Belott is a trans poet, multidisciplinary artist, and teacher from woodsy NJ. Their work explores ghosts, queer desire, and the body. Dana received their MFA from Pratt Institute after 5 years teaching creative writing in middle and high schools. They have published over 50 volumes of their students’ writing and are dedicated to art-making as a community practice.
We welcome Christopher Nelson on the publication of his chapbook, Love Song for the New World, our eleventh title of 2019 and Number 1 in Volume Four of our Editor’s Series. Check out an excerpt and get your copy here!
If you’ve purchased our spring bundle offer, this title is included and you’ll be the first to receive it!
It’s a thrill to announce more new titles in our Editor’s Series. As you know, we’re about to release In the Outlaw’s House by Christina Pacosz and Arrow by Bruce Bond this month as the 9th and 10th title in Volume 3 of the series. These will be followed by #11, Trevor Ketner’s Negative of a Photo of Fire and #12, Diane Scholl’s Salt, both due out in March. Also in March, we’ll launch Volume 4 with Christopher Nelson’s Love Song to the New World. Then, in June (drumroll, please?), we’ll publish Edison Dupree’s Boy with a Ball and Rogan Kelly’s Demolition in the Tropics.
Why not grab all seven titles with a special Spring Bundle offer? From now through March 15, we’re offering all seven chapbooks, shipping included, for $50. (Chapbooks will be shipped upon date of publication, so your bundle will arrive in installments; please check the Seven Kitchens Press website for publication updates.)
Please join us in celebrating these seven poets!
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