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Shelf Unbound’s Summer 2024 Issue Features Multiple of our Authors!

Thank you to the Shelf Unbound Editor for the immense support for our titles! Mirage by Nahid Rachlin Sonnets for a Missing Key by Percival Everett Circle of Animals by Sadie Hoagland Memento […]

Must-Read Essay by Susan Rich, “If I Knew Then What I Know Now” featured in Solstice Magazine

Thank you to Solstice Magazine for publishing Susan Rich’s powerful essay on her experience with coerced abortion and how writing her latest collection of poems helped her heal.

BLUE ATLAS author Susan Rich interviewed by Solstice Literary Magazine

Susan Rich’s masterful collection, Blue Atlas, (Red Hen Press, April 2, 2024) is a physical and emotional travelogue through a “land of deferred decisions.” In this collection, the reader is […]

Susan Rich discusses her collection, BLUE ATLAS, on 1455 Author Series!

It’s a tradition that began last year, and I hope we repeat every year: making sure we properly acknowledge National Poetry Month by celebrating the work of an amazing contemporary […]

Susan Rich, Author of BLUE ATLAS, is this week’s featured poet at Yetzirah: A Hearth for Jewish Poetry

Congratulations to this week’s featured poet at Yetzirah: a hearth for Jewish poetry, Susan Rich, on the recent publication of BLUE ATLAS (Red Hen Press). Diane Seuss writes that this […]

Susan Rich discusses her latest book, BLUE ATLAS, with the Crab Creek Review

Susan Rich sat down with Crab Creek Review to discuss her latest book Blue Atlas, the themes of the book, and her writing in general. Blue Atlas is a lyrical abortion […]

The cover for Susan Rich’s latest collection BLUE ATLAS is revealed in an exclusive with Lit Hub!

Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Susan Rich’s sixth poetry collection, Blue Atlas, which will be published by Red Hen Press in April. Click here to read the […]

Poems You Need Podcast shares excerpts from BLUE ATLAS by Susan Rich

Two poets read and review poems from Susan Rich’s poetry collection, BLUE ATLAS.

Bookmonger: The negative capability of poets

”Negative capability” was initially described by 18th-century English poet John Keats as a poet’s way of living with uncertainty, or with openness to competing moods. In two recently published volumes, […]

Tinderbox Poetry’s Sarah K. Carey Reviews BLUE ATLAS by Susan Rich

In her latest book, Blue Atlas, newly released from Red Hen Press, award-winning Washington poet Susan Rich confronts and chronicles her world before, during and after an abortion she underwent as […]

Poetry Foundation Reviews BLUE ATLAS by Susan Rich

Blue Atlas by Susan Rich takes its title from the Blue Atlas Cedar found in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco. As the book’s epigraph explains: “It is the hardiest species and […]

The Shore features review of Susan Rich’s BLUE ATLAS!

Susan Rich’s newest collection, Blue Atlas, is a complicated work that artfully blends the personal and the political, avoiding didacticism to create a timely narrative that explores the themes of […]

PUBLISHER’S WEEKLY Reviews Susan Rich’s BLUE ATLAS!

The resilient and confessional eighth book from Rich (Gallery of Postcards and Maps) centers on a pressured midterm abortion undergone when a relationship fails.  … these poems offer a surreal […]

MAPPING THE SURREAL: A CONVERSATION WITH SUSAN RICH

Susan Rich’s eighth book, Blue Atlas, is forthcoming from Red Hen Press (April 2, 2024). Gallery of Postcards and Maps: New and Selected Poems (Salmon Poetry) and Demystifying the Manuscript: Essays and Interviews for […]