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Ron Mohring is the author of Relative Hearts (Lily Poetry Review, 2023) and The Boy Who Reads in the Trees (The Word Works, 2024).

His previous poetry collections are Survivable World, winner of the 2003 Washington Prize, and four prizewinning chapbooks: Amateur Grief, The David Museum, Beneficence, and Touch Me Not. Mohring lives in Cincinnati, Ohio, with his husband.

In 2007 he founded Seven Kitchens Press, which has published over 200 contemporary poetry chapbooks in hand-tied editions.

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	Common Wealth: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania (Keystone Books) by Marjorie Maddox (欧宝娱乐 Author) (Editor), Jerry Wemple (欧宝娱乐 Author) (Editor), Gabriel Welsch (欧宝娱乐 Author) (Contributor) 3.93 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2005	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Survivable World 4.40 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2004	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hibernation and Other Poems by Bear Bards by Ron J. Suresha (Editor), David Bergman (Contributor), Albert Skip Brushaber (Contributor) 4.58 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Amateur Grief 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1998	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The David Museum 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2002	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Relative Hearts by Ron Mohring (欧宝娱乐 Author), Eileen Cleary (editor), Martha Mccollough (designer) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	West Branch Spring/Summer 2005 Number 56 Poetry Issue by James Harms, Karen Kovacik, John Gery it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2005	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Two Rivers Review Poetry Chapbook Series: Touch Me Not (poems by Ron Mohring), Never Closer (poems by Michael McFee), Life as Weather (poems by Lynne Knight) (Two Rivers Review Poetry Chapbook Series, 5, 6, and 7) by Ron Mohring (欧宝娱乐 Author), Michael McFee, Lynne Knight 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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It鈥檚 June, and so we鈥檙e throwing open the window for manuscripts by poets with a Pennsylvania connection. Seven Kitchens Press was launched back in 2007 with our Keystone Chapbook Series, and we鈥檝e published 28 chapbooks in the series, with #29 in production. Will your manuscript be next? and send us your best work!

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