Red Hen 20th Anniversary Readings!
Date: March 16, 2020
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News & Reviews
News:
The Los Angeles Daily News Shows You Who’s Who in LA’s Publishing Scene
Date: March 16, 2020
Allison Hill likens the Los Angeles publishing scene to a "scintillating, intimate dinner party," with ten of her favorite publishers as the dinner guests in the
Lillian-Yvonne Bertram co-founds Line Assembly, a collective of poets with an ambitious outreach tour this summer
Date: March 16, 2020
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AWP Spotlights Red Hen Press
Date: March 16, 2020
Video of Red Hen at Boston Court
Date: March 16, 2020
Eloise Klein Healy, Poet Laureate of Los Angeles!
Date: March 16, 2020
This very morning, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced the appointment of Red Hen author Eloise Klein Healy as the first official Poet Laureate of the City of Los Angeles! Eloise will […]
Elise Paschen writes blog entry for The Center of Humans and Nature
Date: March 16, 2020
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Francisco Aragon featured on Poetry Foundation
Date: March 16, 2020
Upcoming author Francisco Aragon, whose book After Rubén is forthcoming from Red Hen Press in 2020, was recently highlighted by the Poetry Foundation in
Kate Gale interviewed on the Los Angeles Times
Date: March 16, 2020
Carolyn Kellogg at the Los Angeles Times just posted an interview with Kate, on running an indie press and her festival favorites. To read the interview,
25% Off All Poetry Titles for National Poetry Month!
Date: March 16, 2020
Reviews:
Ely Shipley, Quarterly West
Date: April 16, 2009
"Brown's awareness of the book's form, its how in addition to its what, allows for these poems' rich complexities. The order not only forms a linear narrative, but layers experience. […]
Julie Enszer, Lambda Book Report
Date: April 16, 2009
"The strength of Sister is in the details, some of which are constructed through Brown's diction, which is gently infused with a southern dialect but resists caricature. She writes of […]
Melanie Jordan, Southern Indiana Review
Date: April 16, 2009
"To write of one's own conception, gestation, birth"to write convincingly of unknowable-yet-familiar moments: that is the power of poetry and the power of Nickole Brown's debut, Sister, a self-styled "novel-in-poems.' […]
American Poet: The Journal of The Academy of American Poets
Date: April 16, 2009
"Nickole Brown's poems marry an enthralling and tormented narrative with woven, specific lyricism to create a layered progression through a difficult past. Brown has immediate access to how the situations […]
Cate Marvin, Ploughshares
Date: April 16, 2009
"Using umbilicus as guide rail, the speaker of Nickole Brown's Sister–an unflinching and deeply intelligent first book–undertakes a hair-lifting expedition back to her childhood so as to return herself to […]
Erica Wright, ForeWord Magazine
Date: April 16, 2009
"It would be easy to say that this collection is an indictment, but there is nothing easy about these poems. They are each skillfully wrought pieces about impossible subjects. . […]
Publishers Weekly, August 2007
Date: April 16, 2009
"Brown's forthright debut opens with an intimate address to a sister: "I tell you this story because it is / the story we need / to believe our offal is […]
Time Out London, April 24, 2008
Date: April 14, 2009
Time Out LondonMotel Girl (Red Hen Press) is the debut collection of New York writer Greg Sanders. Like many debut collections it draws material from a decade of writing, going […]
Michael Swagner reviews Earthquake I.D.
Date: April 13, 2009
John Domini Earthquake I.D. Red Hen (CDC, dist.) $20.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-59709-076-6Des Moines author John Domini has won awards from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Meridian Editors […]
Naomi Shihab Nye reviews Double Moon
Date: April 13, 2009
Margo Klass and Frank Soos Double Moon. Red Hen (CDC, dist.) $19.95 (80p) ISBN 978-1-59709-141-1This is a stunning book and I want to live in it. Double Moon — one […]