Red Hen Press

Comedians Who Write: Sapna Kumar and Jason Stuart, with Sandra Tsing Loh
2022-12-03 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Red Hen Press, 1540 Lincoln Ave., Pasadena, CA, 91103, United States
Red Hen Press presents “Comedians Who Write” with Sapna Kumar and Jason Stuart on Saturday, December 3 at 7 p.m. at Red Hen Press’s venue in Pasadena.
These raucous out performers double as authors. Tonight, they will entertain you with their comedy sets and then dish about their private writing lives with moderator Sandra Tsing Loh! You will also get a chance to buy signed copies of their books!
All attendees must be fully vaccinated and boosted and provide proof of such at the door prior to entry. Masks are strongly encouraged when not eating or drinking.
When you think one of the most prolific character actors, who’s also an outrageous openly gay stand-up comedian, one name comes to mind…. Jason Stuart. As an actor he is best known for his major role as a slave owner in The Birth Of A Nation, Recently he won The Indie Series Award For Best Actor In a Comedy Series for his Amazon comedy series on Smothered. Jason also has appeared in the award winning films Tangerine, Love Is Strange, Gia with Kindergarten Cop and Vegas Vacation among his fan favorites. He has wowed TV audiences with guest roles on such shows as Goliath, Swedish Dicks, Love (Judd Apatow), Sleepy Hollow, Real Rob, Entourage, The Closer, It’s Al-ways Sunny in Philadelphia, House, Everybody Hates Chris, George Lopez, Will & Grace, Charmed and as “Dr. Thomas” on My Wife and Kids. As a stand up comic he just won the Worldwide Comedy Award for Best LGBTQ comedian. And you have laughed with him on Gotham Comedy Live, Red Eye, One Night Stand Up, Wisecrack, Comics Unleashed and his own comedy special Making It To The Middle, his new comedy album I’m The Daddy and I Have Candy and autobiography Shut Up, Im Talking! From CCB Publishing.
Sapna Kumar is an LA-based comedian who has been seen on ABC’s “Fresh Off the Boat,” Netflix’s “I Think You Should Leave,” Revry.TV’s “Easy Abby,” and LOGO TV’s “One-Night Stand-Up.” As a writer, she has been published in the magazines Sanskari, Masalazine, riksha, and online in “Eat, Darling, Eat.” Currently, she is working on her memoir, “Curry in a Cornfield,” which tells the haphazard journey of a child raised by raucous, misbehaved Indian immigrant parents in a sleepy, mostly white suburb of Indianapolis, Indiana. In it she writes of her travels, or travails rather: from her first love, coming out as a lesbian, her mental health foibles, her ups and downs as a stand-up comic and actor, to the loss of both of her parents in her early thirties. The reader is enticed to learn why this whiny, colicky adult dares to become a grown-ass woman.

Private: Hen House Rental
2023-08-26 08:00 - 2023-08-27 16:00, 2023-09-23 16:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Red Hen Press, 1540 Lincoln Ave., Pasadena, CA, 91103, United States
A private rental hosted at Red Hen Press. For information on renting the Hen House, visit: https://redhen.org/hen-house-literary-center/

Amber Flame LOVE Party
2023-09-17 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Red Hen Press, 1540 Lincoln Ave., Pasadena, CA, 91103, United States
Amber Flame’s apocrifa brings us a love story we can believe in. Come raise a glass of bubbly to LOVE – the hope for it, the work to keep it, and the healing it can bring – at Red Hen Press’s Hen House on Sunday, September 17th, 2023. Feed your soul with delicious snacks, sparkling drinks, sweet music, and poetry that reflects our human longing for connection. Flame will be joined by pressmate Douglas Manuel and Trouble Funk – a spellcasting for generational Black love and music. Join the conversation and ask yourself: are you the lover or the beloved? Which do you most want to be?

Private: Hen House Rental
2023-09-30 14:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Red Hen Press, 1540 Lincoln Ave., Pasadena, CA, 91103, United States
A private event hosted at Red Hen Press. For information on renting the Hen House, visit: https://redhen.org/hen-house-literary-center/

Brooklyn Book Fair!
2023-10-01 10:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | Brooklyn Borough Hall
Red Hen Press is excited to join the Brooklyn Book Fair again! Visit us at Booth 601 for author signings all afternoon and pick up your new favorite books!

29th Benefit Champagne Luncheon!
2023-10-08 11:00 - 14:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | NOOR, 300 E. Colorado Blvd #200, Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
We’re celebrating 29 years of Los Angeles publishing! Please join us in person or virtually as we celebrate our authors and all of the incredible years of publishing, and look forward to everything that’s to come!

Desert Nights, Rising Stars Writing Conference
2023-10-12 - 2023-10-14 | The Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing, 450 E Tyler Mall, Tempe, AZ, 85281, United States
Our Red Hen Authors PAMELA USCHUK, author of REFUGEE, and CYNTHIA HOGUE, author of INSTEAD, IT IS DARK, will be featured at the upcoming Desert Nights, Rising Stars Conference along with many wonderful writers, including Joni Wallace and Joy Harjo. This conference is sponsored by the Piper Center for Creative Writing at Arizona State University. Sign up for their workshops and readings!

ArtNight Pasadena
2023-10-13 18:00 - 22:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Red Hen Press, 1540 Lincoln Ave., Pasadena, CA, 91103, United States
We’re opening our doors for ArtNight Pasadena on October 13!

We’re thrilled to join the roster of incredible arts organizations around Pasadena!
Stop on by to learn about book publishing, create your own poetry, get your face painted, and meet and see the work of talented photographers Jonathan Skurnik and Alan Marx! Many thanks to Hodis Learning and Music for sending their talented face painter, Berena Baldovino, our way!

Portland Book Festival
2023-11-04 10:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Portland Art Museum, 1219 SW Park Avenue, Portland, OR, 97205, United States
Red Hen Press is back at the Portland Book Fair this year! Visit us at the Portland Art Museum to check out our recently released titles!

Holiday LitLit!
2023-11-12 12:00 - 22:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Zubelon, 2478 Fletcher Drive, Los Angeles, CA, 90039, United States
Join us at Zubelon on November 12 for an incredible event celebrating the Los Angeles literary scene at this special Holiday LitLit pop up!

Open Book: Ingrid Rojas Contreras in Conversation With Héctor Tobar
2023-11-16 18:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
Mingle at a pre-event, hosted happy hour, then take in a magical discussion
between Rojas Contreras and Tobar followed by audience Q & A.
The evening concludes with a book signing and dessert reception.
General Admission: $60.00 Student/Educator/Partner Admission: $35.00
Your Tax-Deductible Donations support our grantees.
Registration Required
For tickets and more information use QR code
or visit pasadenaliteraryalliance.org/open-book/

Miami Book Fair
2023-11-17 10:00 - 2023-11-19 19:00 (America/New_York) | Miami Dade College, 600 Biscayne Blvd, Miami, FL, 33132, United States
Red Hen Press returns to the Miami Book Fair this year! Join us to see the latest releases from 2023! Can’t wait to see you!

SPARC | Coffee Table Books Live featuring Dana Gioia and RON KOERTGE
2023-11-19 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
“Coffee Table Books Live,” the meet-the-author and book-signing series hosted by the South Pasadena Arts Council (SPARC), features Dana Gioia and Ron Koertge—two poets who are as entertaining as they are thought-provoking—on Sunday, November 19, 2023, 7 p.m., at the Fremont Centre Theatre in South Pasadena. Admission is free.
Poet and literary critic Dana Gioia, who served as California State Poet Laureate from 2015 to 2019, will present excerpts from his newest poetry collection, Meet Me at the Light House (Greywolf Press, 2023). The former Chair of the National Endowment for the Arts, Gioia’s numerous accolades include the American Book Award and Poets Prize.
Joining Gioia will be Pushcart Prize-winning poet Ron Koertge, reading from his most recent book of poetry, I Dreamed I Was Emily Dickinson’s Boyfriend (Red Hen Press, 2022). Koertge, South Pasadena Poet Laureate, is a two-time winner of the PEN Literary Award for Children’s Literature. A screen adaptation of his poem, “Negative Space,” was an Academy Award nominee for Best Short Animated Film.

Private: Hen House Literacy Center Rental
2023-12-10 13:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Red Hen Press, 1540 Lincoln Ave., Pasadena, CA, 91103, United States

Red Hen Press Office Closed for Holidays
2023-12-15 - 2024-01-01 | Red Hen Press, 1540 Lincoln Ave., Pasadena, CA, 91103, United States
We wish everyone a happy and joyous holiday season and new year! See you in 2024!

Red Hen at AWP!
2024-02-06 - 2024-02-11

The Lantern Dancer: Solo Art Exhibition from Ching Ching Cheng
2024-03-23 13:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Opening exhibition for artist Ching Ching Cheng, disciplinary artist and art educator, including mounted multidisciplinary photography and a collaborative zine called “Cradle.” Open to the public!
Time: 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Location: Red Hen Press (1540 Lincoln Avenue, Pasadena, CA 91103)

Elizabeth Bradfield in Conversation with Susan Rich | East End Books PTown
2024-04-14 17:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | East End Books Boston Seaport, 300 Pier 4 Boulevard, Boston, MA, 02210, United States
East End Books Boston Seaport Presents: Elizabeth Bradfield “Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, Poetry” in Conv. w/ Susan Rich “Blue Atlas” Boston Store 4/14 @5pm
Elizabeth Bradfield is the author of five books, and her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The Atlantic Monthly, Orion, and elsewhere. A Stegner Fellow and Audre Lorde Prize winner, she is the founder of Broadsided Press, teaches at Brandeis University, and has worked as a naturalist in Cascadia and beyond for the past twenty-some years. Bradfield grew up in Tacoma and attended the University of Washington; she lives on Cape Cod.
This field guide is a deeply informative and wildly exuberant visual and literary romp through one of the most spectacular regions of the world–a varied chorus of voices and visual talents, all celebrating the animals and plants of the great Pacific Northwest.–Ray Troll, Artist and Co-author of Cruisin’ the Fossil Coastline
Susan Rich is the author of eight books, including Gallery of Postcards and Maps: New and Selected Poems, as well as Cloud Pharmacy, The Alchemist’s Kitchen, Cures Include Travel, and The Cartographer’s Tongue: Poems of the World. Her poetry has earned her awards from Fulbright Foundation, PEN USA, and the Times Literary Supplement (London). Individual poems appear in the Harvard Review, New England Review, O Magazine, and Poetry Ireland, among other places. Susan is co-editor with Kelli Russell Agodon of Demystifying the Manuscript: Creating a Book of Poems. She teaches at Highline College and directs Poets on the Coast: A Writing Retreat for Women from Seattle. Susan currently resides in Seattle, Washington.
“The remarkable poems of Blue Atlas chart an expansive life which spins around an epicenter of loss, but loss is too tame a word, really, for what this speaker bears. ‘I am a woman swollen with the history of my dead, ‘ Rich writes, ‘a body awash in stories.’ She describes an imperiled childhood and a young adulthood that culminates in a coerced midterm abortion, which ‘stays suspended in resin / like a tiny scorpion, / transforming anger into amber.’ Blue Atlas exquisitely performs the way trauma–the utter loss of self-determination, of choice–can turn a life to seawater, to drift, to ‘somehow, the might still be–‘ mapping ‘constellations of in-between, ‘ suspended between deciding and undeciding, from a space outside of the circumference of longing, where poetry lives.”–Diane Seuss, author of frank: sonnets

VIDEO: Kim Stafford Reading on Rattle
2024-04-16
Kim Stafford is Emeritus Professor at Lewis and Clark College in Oregon. He writes, teaches, and travels to raise the human spirit through poetry. In 1986, he founded the Northwest Writing Institute, and he has published a dozen books of poetry and prose, including The Muses Among Us: Eloquent Listening and Other Pleasures of the Writer’s Craft and 100 Tricks Every Boy Can Do: How My Brother Disappeared. His most recent book is the poetry collection As the Sky Begins to Change (Red Hen Press, 2024). He has taught writing in dozens of schools and community centers, and in Scotland, Italy, Mexico, and Bhutan. In 2018 he was named Oregon’s 9th Poet Laureate for a two-year term.
Watch the reading here:

Kate Gale and Helen Benedict at Skylight Books!
2024-05-09 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Skylight Books, 1818 N. Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90027, United States
In The Good Deed, Helen Benedict offers a stark, powerful portrait of women on opposite sides of a refugee camp in Greece: the refugees trapped inside, and the troubled American tourist whose good intentions morph into a dangerous delusion, resulting in a poignant, layered novel on displacement and belonging, love and betrayal, and the jagged space between altruism and egoism.
Helen Benedict, a professor at Columbia University, is the author of seven previous novels, six books of nonfiction, and a play. Her newest novel, The Good Deed, hailed by Kirkus, Publishers Weekly and Booklist, comes out of the research she conducted for her 2022 nonfiction book, Map of Hope and Sorrow, which earned PEN’s Jean Stein Grant for Literary Oral History in 2021. Benedict’s previous novel, Wolf Season, received a starred review in Library Journal, which wrote, “In a book that deserves the widest attention, Benedict ‘follows the war home,’ engaging readers with an insightful story right up until the gut-wrenching conclusion.” Benedict’s 2011 novel, Sand Queen, was named a “Best Contemporary War Novel” by Publishers Weekly. A recipient of the Ida B. Wells Award for Bravery in Journalism, and the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism, she is also the author of The Lonely Soldier: The Private War of Women Serving in Iraq. Her writings inspired a class action suit against the Pentagon on behalf of those sexually assaulted in the military and the 2012 Oscar-nominated documentary, The Invisible War. Her nonfiction books on sexual assault have been translated into Czech and Hungarian, where they were the first books on the subject ever to be published in those countries. Her books have been translated into seven languages.

Under a Neon Sun
For people living in houses and apartments, with stay-at-home jobs, the pandemic was inconvenient. For Mia–a student and housekeeper whose budget is so tight she lives in her car–the pandemic destroys the very source of her paltry income. Fortunately, gutsy and funny Mia is a determined survivor. After weeks of cutting her limited spending even further, missing meals along the way, her wealthy employers become desperate for her services again. This time, she’s determined not to let them take advantage of her as they have in the past. Her newfound confidence gives her new hope as she works to escape the shackles of poverty on her own terms. Sally Rooney meets Elizabeth Strout in this brilliant fiction debut.

Kate Gale is the co-founder and managing editor of Red Hen Press, which has been publishing for more than thirty years in Los Angeles. She is also the author of seven books of poetry including The Goldilocks Zone and The Loneliest Girl, as well as several librettos including Rio de Sangre with Don Davis—who wrote the music to the Matrix movies. Kate grew up in an intentional community. From those beginnings, she has put herself through school, ultimately receiving a Ph.D. in English literature from Claremont Graduate University. Since 1989, she has taught writing at universities in Los Angeles every semester, and has also taught publishing at Oxford, Columbia University, Harvard University, and USC. She served as president of PEN USA from 2005–2006. Currently, Kate teaches publishing and poetry at Chapman University and lives in Los Angeles.

Kate Gale and Ellen Meeropol at Porter Square Books
2024-05-15 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Porter Square Books
Porter Square Books is delighted to welcome Kate Gale, author of Under a Neon Sun and Ellen Meeropol, author of The Lost Women of Azalea Court for a book launch and conversation.
This event will take place on Wednesday, May 15 at 7pm at Porter Square Books (25 White St. Cambridge, MA 02140).

E.P. Tuazon at The Open Book Canyon Country
2024-05-18 12:00 - 14:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Open Book Canyon Country, 19188 Soledad Canyon Road, Canyon Country, CA, 91351, United States
Author E.P. Tuazon will be selling the newly published short story collection, “A Professional Lola.” As described by ZZ Packer: “These tales of Filipinos and Filipino Americans—gay, bi, straight, trans, lovelorn, longing, curious, grief-stricken and hopeful—are a breath of fresh air. Each story is like a snapshot, a curio, a windowpane glimpse into lives caught mid-moment and on the verge. Populated by ex-beauty queens and performances artists, dancers and nurses, lawyers, stick-up artists, and Bigfoot obsessives, each story is an engine unto itself. E.P. Tuazon is a bright star who is only getting started.”
The event will include a reading, Q&A, giveaways, and raffle!

Kate Gale and Amy Shearn at Union Market
2024-05-18 17:00 (America/New_York) | Union Market, 1324 4th Street NE, Washington, DC, 20002, United States
Amy Shearn is the author of the novels How Far Is the Ocean from Here, featured as a notable debut by Poets & Writers and the Chicago Tribune; The Mermaid of Brooklyn, a selection of Target’s Emerging Authors program and a Hudson News Summer Reads pick; and Unseen City, the 2021 Independent Publisher Book Awards’ Gold Medal in Literary Fiction. Her essays have appeared in the New York Times Modern Love column, O, The Oprah Magazine, and several anthologies. A native Midwesterner, she earned an MFA from the University of Minnesota, and now lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her two children.
Kate Gale is the co-founder and managing editor of Red Hen Press, which has been publishing for more than thirty years in Los Angeles. She is also the author of seven books of poetry including The Goldilocks Zone and The Loneliest Girl, as well as several librettos including Rio de Sangre with Don Davis–who wrote the music to the Matrix movies. Kate grew up in an intentional community. From those beginnings, she has put herself through school, ultimately receiving a Ph.D. in English literature from Claremont Graduate University. Since 1989, she has taught writing at universities in Los Angeles every semester, and has also taught publishing at Oxford, Columbia University, Harvard University, and USC. She served as president of PEN USA from 2005-2006. Currently, Kate teaches publishing and poetry at Chapman University and lives in Los Angeles.
Shearn and Gale will be in conversation with Aliah Wright.

Kim Stafford with Bethany Lee
2024-05-21 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Broadway Books, 1714 NE Broadway, Portland, CA, 97232, United States
Please join us for an evening with poet Kim Stafford who will be reading from his latest collection As the Sky Begins to Change, published by Red Hen Press (2024). He will be accompanied by harpist Bethany Joy Lee who will also read from her newest collection of poetry.

E.P. Tuazon at Costa Mesa-Donald Dungan Library
2024-05-23 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Costa Mesa-Donald Dungan Library, 1855 Park Avenue, Costa Mesa, CA, 92627, United States
E.P. Tuazon is a Filipino American writer from Los Angeles. They have work in several publications such as The Rumpus, Lunch Ticket, Peatsmoke, and Five South. Their work was chosen by ZZ Packer as the winner of the 2022 AWP Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction. They are currently a member of Advintage Press and The Blank Page Writing Club at The Open Book, Canyon Country. In their spare time, they like to go to Filipino seafood markets to gossip with the crabs.

As the Sky Begins to Change: a reading with Kim Stafford
2024-05-30 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Bishop & Wilde, 2601 NW Thurman, Portland, OR, 97201, United States
As the Sky Begins to Change: a reading with Kim Stafford
Thursday, May 30, 2024
7:00 PM 8:30 PM
Bishop & Wilde
2601 NW Thurman Portland United States

LIVE ON ZOOM: E.P. Tuazon, Eunice Hong and more at Antioch University’s Lit Up Reading Series
2024-06-05 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
We’ve revived Antioch University Los Angeles’s Lit Up Reading Series. We have an amazing lineup. June 5th, 6:00 p.m. Zoom. Dm or email me (dlott@antioch.edu) for the link. Here are our readers:
Jack Allison
Valentina Gnup
Sean Enfield
E.P. Tuazon
Eunice Hong

Phuong T. Vuong and Douglas Manuel at Skylight Books
2024-06-07 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Skylight Books, 1818 N. Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90027, United States
Join us for an evening of poetry celebrating Red Hen Press and Alice James Books!
Phuong T. Vuong is a Vietnamese American poet and essayist who cannot stop thinking about language, memory, and migration. She is the author of The House I Inherit (Finishing Line, 2019). Her writing has appeared in American Poetry Review, Best American Poetry, Kenyon Review Online, Asian American Writers’ Workshop: The Margins, and elsewhere. Hailing from Oakland, by way of Hue, Viet Nam, Phuong is currently a Ph.D. student in Literature and a James K. Binder Fellow at the University of California, San Diego, situated on unceded Kumeyaay land.
Douglas Manuel was born in Anderson, Indiana and now resides in Long Beach, California. He received a BA in Creative Writing from Arizona State University, an MFA in poetry from Butler University, and a PhD in English Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Southern California. His first collection of poems, Testify, won an IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award for poetry, and his poems and essays can be found in numerous literary journals, magazines, and websites, most recently Zyzzyva, Pleiades, and the New Orleans Review. He has traveled to Egypt and Eritrea with The University of Iowa’s International Writing Program to teach poetry. A recipient of the Dana Gioia Poetry Award and a fellowship from the Borchard Foundation Center on Literary Arts, he is a Bayard Rustin Fellow at Whittier College and teaches at Spalding University’s low-res MFA program.

Kim Stafford at Village Books
2024-06-10 18:00 - 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Village Books, 1200 11th Street, Bellingham, WA, 98225, United States
In his third poetry collection from Red Hen Press, Kim Stafford gathers poems that sing with empathy, humor, witness, and story. Poems in this book have been set to music, quoted in the New York Times, posted online in the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day series, gathered in a chapbook sold to benefit Ukrainian refugees, posted online in response to Supreme Court decisions, composed for a painter’s gallery opening, and in other ways engaged with a world at war with itself, testifying for the human project hungry for kinship, exiled from bounty, and otherwise thirsting for the oxygen of healing song.
