ISBNs!

Happy news: we just received our list of ISBNs from Bowker today. Now we can register our titles, and all our chapbooks will have ISBNs, including the second printing of Harry's Underground Singing.
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Keystone Chapbook update: Eleven finalists are now in the hands of this year's judge, G.C. Waldrep. Thanks again to all who helped to make our second annual contest a success!
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Robin Becker Chapbook update: proof pages went out in today's mail to Judith Barrington, this year's winner, and we're on track toward the October 1 publication of Lost Lands.
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Look for a special announcement in August about two new series from Seven Kitchens Press!

mss. logged for 2008 Robin Becker Chapbook Prize:

• a/ long/ division
• Always These Love Poems [semifinalist]
• And to Think She Kissed Me at 15th and U
• The Answer Is a Shudder [FINALIST]
• Antes y despues del Bronx: Lenapehoking
• Art at All Costs
• Battle Below the Clouds
• Beach Reading [FINALIST]
• Beleaguered Oases [FINALIST]
• Beneath the Vanity [semifinalist]
• Benedictus [semifinalist]
• Blossoms and Gods, and Other Bewilderments
• Breathtaking
• The Cicada Lessons [semifinalist]
• Closer [semifinalist]
• Coming Out in Ovaltine
• Cry Me a Lorca [semifinalist]
• Curl [semifinalist]
• The Dancer
• Dangerous Curves
• Dear Red Airplane [semifinalist]
• Distance, Articulate
• Febrile [semifinalist]
• February Ice Years
• Figurine [FINALIST]
• Fragments of a Corridor
• Hardly Planet Yet [semifinalist]
• The Horizontal Poet
• How to Teach Grammar
• Incidental Song, and Other Poems
• Journey to Endless Arrival
• Just Before and Then After
• Lost Lands [WINNER]
• Love Cycle
• Love, or Whatever It Was [semifinalist]
• Luck
• Man Country
• Men Hugging in Hallways
• Mrs. Potatohead's Uterus & Other Poems
• My Imaginary Cock [semifinalist]
• One Explanation [FINALIST]
• Open Your Mouth
• Our Passing [FINALIST]
• Password
• Platos de Sal [FINALIST]
• Plead the River with Stones
• A Poem Is Like a Woman
• Poems for Girls
• Postcard from P-town [FINALIST]
• Question Mark
• Safe and Other Love Poems
• Seven Portraits and a Film
• Sleeping with Tigers
• Smoke and Mirrors [semifinalist]
• Square Circles
• The Swaying Was
• Take It
• Touch and Go [semifinalist]
• Touch Me, Please
• The Truth About the Quiet (Lost Poet in America)
• Under a Public Skin [FINALIST]
• What Are You, Some Kind of Angry Dyke or Something?

Robin Becker Chapbook Prize announced

Many thanks to all who supported this year's inaugural Robin Becker Chapbook Prize. Our judge, Robin Becker, has selected Judith Barrington's "Lost Lands" as the winning manuscript. Lost Lands is set for release on (or as close as we can get to) October 1, 2008.

Also selected was Steven Riel's "Postcard from P-Town," which is tentatively set for publication on February 15, 2009.

Finally, we're pleased to announce the publication of Matthew Hittinger's "Platos de Sal," scheduled for release in late spring of 2009.

Entrants to this year's Robin Becker Chapbook competition will each receive a copy of Lost Lands this fall. As a special thank you, all writers who entered manuscripts to Seven Kitchens Press in 2007 & 2008 are eligible for a 20% discount off the cover price of any of our titles (this includes pre-orders of forthcoming titles) until December 31 of this year.

Harry Humes - News & Events

Tuesday, July 8: We're pleased to announce that Harry Humes' Underground Singing is now in its second printing. The initial print run of 125 copies sold out in June. New copies are available now!