Nine Syllables Press is a chapbook press created in partnership with the Boutelle-Day Poetry Center at Smith College. We seek to address ongoing inequity in the publishing world by providing a new platform for systematically excluded voices, including but not limited to women, BIPOC poets, and trans/LGBTQIA++ poets. 9SP honors and continues the long tradition of poets and poetry at Smith, including Sylvia Plath ‘55 while extending that community to the other Seven Sisters colleges and beyond.

News

  • Desire/Halves by Jai Hamid Bahar

    The first winner of the 9SP annual chapbook contest, Desire/Halves is now available for pre-order, and will be published on October 8, 2024! Visit our shop for more.

  • 2024 judge torrin a. greathouse

    torrin a. greathouse will be joining us in 2024 as our final judge for our chapbook contest! Entries open June 1, 2024. More details about the contest here.

  • Winner Jai Hamid Bashir!

    We are delighted to announce the winner of our 2023 chapbook contest -Jai Hamid Bashir! Bashir’s collection Desire // Halves was selected out of hundreds of submissions by Leila Chatti, and will be available in October 2024.

  • CLMP Women's History Month List

    We’re delighted that our anthology, My Hand Holding Tight My Other Hand was chosen by CLMP for their Women’s History Month reading list, along with editor Adrie Rose’s chapbook, Rupture. You can see the full list here.

  • Contest & Anthology

    We are so excited to announce that this summer, 9SP is holding our first chapbook contest (more details on our contest page) AND releasing our first book, an anthology of nine contemporary poets meditating on the body.

  • Guest post at Perugia Press

    “As a poet, math is not my forte. So when Rebecca Olander asked me to compile the statistics for poetry prizes, I was not especially thrilled. I had no idea that those stats would fuel the beginning of a new poetry press at Smith College.” Editor Adrie Rose wrote about how 9SP got started in this guest column for Perugia Press.

  • The Chapbook Podcast

    We were delighted to join The Chapbook Podcast with Noah Stetzer and Ross White, to discuss how 9SP got started, and what’s coming. Link to the episode is here.