Our seventh title of the year is Janine Certo’s Home Altar, selected as Number 24 in our Keystone Series. Please join us in welcoming Janine to the Seven Kitchens family.
Stay tuned–and send energy–as we perform the spectacular feat of releasing five chapbooks in the month of June, starting with Ben Meyerson’s Near Enough and including new work by Jon Conley, Janine Certo, Steven Sanchez, and Cameron Gearen. These chapbooks will be dropping hot and fast, so check back to order your favorites.
If you’re a poet with a Pennsylvania connection, Series Editors Jeff Walt and Karen Weyant want to read your chapbook manuscript: the Keystone Chapbook Series is open through the end of June. Full guidelines here.
We are happy to announce our selections for the Keystone Chapbook Series: Lie Low, Goaded Lamb by Ellen McGrath Smith and Home Altar by Janine Certo. Other manuscripts noted for exceptional merit were The Needles Road by Lee Peterson, Erasing the Book of Pregnancy by Heather Lanier, and The Grieving Bone by Kelly McQuain.
Ellen McGrath Smith’s second chapbook, Scatter, Feed, was published by Seven Kitchens Press in 2014, and her full-length collection, Nobody’s Jackknife, appeared in 2015 from West End Press. She teaches at the University of Pittsburgh and in the Carlow University Madwomen in the Attic program.
Janine Certo is the author of In the Corner of the Living (Main Street Rag, 2017) and Elixir (forthcoming, New American Press & Bordighera Press). She is currently an associate professor of poetry and teacher education in the College of Education at Michigan State University.
Please join us in congratulating these poets and their work!
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