We’re delighted to announce the lineup for our 2025 Summer Kitchen Series. Please join us in welcoming these four poets to the Seven Kitchens family:

Lisa Low, for Late in the Day: Lisa’s essays, book reviews, and interviews have appeared in The Massachusetts Review, The Boston Review, and The Adroit Journal. Her poetry has been shortlisted for Ploughshares and is published in or forthcoming in many literary journals, among them Hopkins Review, Pleiades, Louisiana Literature, Pennsylvania English, Conduit, and Southern Indiana Review.

Robert Miltner, for Tomas Tranströmer Comes to Ohio: Robert is a life-long Ohioan who grew up in Cleveland and Avon Lake on the north coast of Ohio and currently lives in North Canton and Northeast Ohio in the Great Lakes geography and culture. Miltner is the author of fifteen poetry/prose poetry chapbooks, including Against the Simple, (Wick Poetry Center Ohio Chapbook Award), Eurydice Rising (Red Berry Editions Summer Poetry Chapbook award), and Horse Skull Moon (SurVision Press/James Tate Poetry prize); as well as three full-length poetry/prose poetry collections: Hotel Utopia (New Rivers Press Poetry award), Orpheus & Echo (National Poetry Series finalist), and Always the Geography Leans in on Me (Press 53 Poetry Prize finalist) forthcoming from MadHat Press, Fall 2025).

Laurie Kutchins, for Sketches for a Dead Renaissance: Laurie is a poet and lyric nonfiction writer. Her poems and essays have appeared widely in publications such as The Georgia Review, The Kenyon Review, The New Yorker, Orion Magazine, Poetry, Ploughshares, The Southern Review, and in several anthologies. Her first book of poetry, Between Towns, won the first-book award from Texas Tech University Press, and two subsequent books are published by BOA Editions: The Night Path (1997) and Slope of the Child Everlasting (2007).

Dustin King, for Courteous Gringo: Dustin’s poems have appeared in The Potomac Review, The Tusculum Review, Ligeia, and other rad spots. He is a Best of the Net nominee
and a poetry editor for Sublunary Review. He curates the poetry and performance event “Yodel Farm.” His first chapbook, Last Echo, is forthcoming from Bottlecap Features.