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 Oasis [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.

Finalists

Ten finalists remain in contention for the Robin Becker Chapbook Prize. We're very close to announcing the winner and finalists; please stay tuned. (Authors will be contacted privately before the winners' information is posted here.)

Update: after consultation with our judges and authors, we've decided to publish all our titles in initial printings of 125 copies. (Previously, we stated that runner-up manuscripts would be published in editions of 100.) Authors will still receive fifty copies, which will include 13 (half) of an initial set of numbered & signed copies printed on fine papers.

Thanks again to everyone who entered and helped to spread the word.

Two weeks remain

Two weeks remain in the reading period for the Robin Becker Chapbook Prize. To date, we've received 25 manuscripts. Thanks to all who've entered their work and to those who've helped spread the word. The postmark/online deadline is May 15th.