News & Reviews
Ernest Hilbert Featured on Best American Poetry
2008-11-03 00:00:00
"Prophetic Outlook" [by Ernest Hilbert]
Prophetic Outlook
Crooks run the whole world, and the Dow just fell.
Crap rules the airwaves. All your best plans stall.
The air is dirty, and you don't feel well.
Your wife won't listen. Friends no longer call.
Sad songs from youth no longer cast a spell.
Cancer research has run into a wall.
Some inflated hack just won the Nobel.
You witness clear signs of decline and fall.
The neighbors are cold, and your house won't sell.
Your cat has bad teeth. Your paychecks feel small.
Maybe you're really sick. It's hard to tell.
Up ahead, traffic has slowed to a crawl.
The world didn't just start going to hell.
You just noticed for the first time, that's all.
-- Ernest Hilbert
originally in American Poetry Review
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Amy Lemmon is Guest Blogger at the Best American Poetry Blog
2008-09-07 00:00:00
Amy Lemmon is Guest Blogger at the Best American Poetry Blog from September 7-13
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Elise Paschen Interviewed by Edward Byrne
2008-11-12 00:00:00
Elise Paschen is the author of Infidelities, winner of the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize, and Houses: Coasts. A new collection, Bestiary, which includes the poems in VPR, is forthcoming from Red Hen Press in the spring of 2009. Her poems also have been published in New Republic... READ MORE
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Elise Paschen author of Bestiary in Wall Street Journal
2009-11-11 00:00:00
Sourcebooks, just launched a new website called PoetrySpeaks.com.
"Earlier works include the poetry anthology Poetry Speaks: Hear Great Poets Read Their Work from Tennyson to Plath, edited by Elise Paschen and Rebekah Presson Mosby, which has sold 190,000 copies in various editions since it was published in 2001, and Poetry Speaks to Children, edited by Ms. Paschen, which has sold approximately 170,000 copies since it was published 2005. Both works come with CDs on which famous poets can be heard reading their work. A third volume in the series, Hip Hop Speaks to Children, edited by Nikki Giovanni, has sold 55,000 copies since being published in 2008." (read more)
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Elise Paschen in Harvard Magazine
2011-04-22 00:00:00
Elise Paschen was featured in Harvard Magazine in a great article about her career as a poet.
"Paschen's poems are sharp arrows piercing some target in her personal landscape. Infidelities explores both the pleasures and hazards of eros, while the poems in Bestiary take animal life as both their ruling metaphor and, quite often, subject."
To see the full article, click on the link here.
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Amazon top 100 African American Titles--Cooling Board: A Long Playing Poem
2009-09-02 00:00:00
Cooling Board: A Long Playing Poem by Mitchell L. Douglas is on the Amazon.com list for top 100 African American Titles.
At a time when most series writing has been reduced to metaphor'd-fact and young poets, in the pursuit of the bleached mask of Post Race cultural aesthetics, have lost their kinship to the nuances of the oral tradition, let alone soulful journeys into Soul, comes Cooling Board, a passionate, layered plea and low swing into the Go Tell It Corner and MountainBottom of human genius, its lineage, tutelage, maturation, triumphs, loves and losses. Whatever Soul is, it's all here–struggling through the pain of secular impulse, and the note-reaching psychological drama-duets that haunted the vision of Donny Hathaway's gift and unique approach to song. Mitchell Douglas deepens, inward, the extensions of prosody, adding inspired improvisation to the unknown knowns of persona, collective and personal. Cooling Board might just be the last necessary series, the one with church-basement and chart-topping swagger, the one that amens the rise and alternate takes the fall.
–Thomas Sayers Ellis
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Mitchell Douglas nominated for a Hurston/Wright!
2010-08-17 00:00:00
Mitchell Douglas, author of Cooling Board: A Long Playing Poem, has been nominated for a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, in the Poetry category. Congratulations Mitchell! More info here.
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Cooling Board Nominated for NAACP Image Award
2010-01-07 00:00:00
During a press conference on Jan. 6, Cooling Board: A Long-Playing Poem was announced as a nominee for the NAACP Image Award in the Outstanding Literary Work-Poetry category. The announcement has come at a great time with the second leg of Mitchell L.H. Douglas' book tour slated to begin Jan. 18 in St. Louis. It should also be noted that fellow Red Hen author Camille Dungy was nominated in the same category for her contribution as editor for the anthology Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry (The University of Georgia Press). The awards will be broadcast live on Feb. 26 at 8 p.m. on Fox.
Follow this link for more information:
http://www.naacpimageawards.net/41/nominees-and-voting/nominees/
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Poetry.LA & Red Hen Press
2009-10-20 00:00:00
Poetry.LA has recently posted a new front page, featuring videos of poets performing at two Red Hen Press reading series events:
Poetry.LA's video of the Annenberg Community Beach House reading series, in Santa Monica, include poets Jenny Factor and David St. John.
Video of the reading series at The Ruskin Art Club, in the Mid Wilshire area, include poets Rebecca Foust and Jamey Hecht
Watch the videos here.
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Jamey Hecht finalist for 2009 Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize
2009-06-21 00:00:00
Jamey Hecht's new manuscript Fate vs. United States has been declared a finalist in the just-concluded 2009 Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize.
His 2009 Red Hen Press title, Limousine, Midnight Blue: Fifty Frames from the Zapruder Film was also a finalist in a previous submission period for the Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize.
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