Each year during National Poetry Month in April, the Academy of American Poets presents a signature celebration of poetry's important place in our culture and its impact on the lives of readers. On April 28, 2022, the 19th annual Poetry & the Creative Mind will be exclusively presented online at 7:30 p.m. EDT, making it available to poetry readers and lovers everywhere. RSVP […]
Add your stories and art to Red Hen’s legacy! This year, we’ll have individual literary and art activities for kids and adults alike: contribute to our community art wall by creating drawings, filling in coloring pages, writing your own 1-page story, or creating black-out poems of your own! Author readings will be screened on-site and, […]
A Generative Poetry Workshop led by Khalisa Rae Level: All Levels This is a generative writing workshop designed to help women and femme writers unleash the power locked within in them through exploring the work of poignant women writers. Feminist writers like Audre Lorde, Maggie Nelson, Dorothy Chan, Patricia Smith use writing as a tool of […]
Acclaimed for combining the accessible and profound, Kim's poems about motherhood are some of her most moving and disarmingly candid. I Wore This Dress Today for You, Mom is an anthology of her poems on being a mother--childbirth to empty nest--as well as being a daughter with all the teenaged messiness, drama and conflict, to finally […]
Authors Karen Brennan, Kate Gale, and Cynthia Hogue present and celebrate their most recent releases at Changing Hands Phoenix. ABOUT THE LIVE EVENT We're limiting attendance to allow for social distancing, so registration via Eventbrite is required for admission. Masks are required. ABOUT THE BOOKS About Television: A Memoir | Television is a fluid text that sometimes reads like poetry, sometimes […]
Join Red Hen Press and our literary community as we put on a complete day of literary programming! 1-2:15pm - State of Publishing Panel (featuring local publishers) 2:45pm-4:00pm - Craft Panel 4:30-5:45pm - Craft Workshop 6:15-7:30pm - Reading with local authors
Join us on Saturday, May 7th at 3:00 pm as we welcome Carleton Eastlake to the store to discuss and sign Monkey Business! This event is free to attend and will be held in the courtyard at DIESEL, A Bookstore in Brentwood. Masks are required to attend. A conflicted TV writer on location in Florida becomes obsessed with a mysterious woman at […]
Join Charles Harper Webb, author of Ursula Lake, in conversation with Carleton Eastlake, author of Monkey Business, at Vroman's in Pasadena! These two authors will discuss the themes toxic masculinity, the dynamics of love and infatuation, and the mysteries of seduction and life.
Red Hen Press has teamed up with Lost City Bookstore in Washington, D.C. for a virtual event series in 2022! Join us in welcoming Thea Prieto as she discusses From the Caveswith guest, The Last Exit author Michael Kaufman! About From the Caves: Environmental catastrophe has driven four people inside the dark throat of a cave: Sky, a child […]
Sunday, May 22, 2022 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm Red Hen Press 1540 Lincoln Ave. Pasadena, CA 91103 Red Hen Press is celebrating the re-opening of our art gallery space at the Hen House Literary Center! We’re thrilled and honored to welcome over 80 artists to our community center, including Rachel X Hobreigh, Renee […]
Join the incredible Jenny Qi, Pete Hsu, and Lily Hoang at Skylight Books for a gorgeous conversation on their upcoming releases, and on trauma, identity, violence, and belonging.
More details to come!
