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

  • 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.