Date: January 8, 2014
At first glance, Douglas Kearney's poems in his collection, Patter, consist of words clustered in impossible ways on the page, leaving the reader to wonder how they are read. Now, […]
Date: November 22, 2013
This month we hosted our annual anniversary luncheon celebrating 19 years of success. "Its (Red Hen's) success shows there is still an unquenchable thirst for exceptional literature in Pasadena and […]
Date: November 8, 2013
Mariano Zaro chats with William Archila for the sixth installment of the interview series from Poetry.LA. William Archila has not yet been published by Red Hen, but his second book […]
Date: October 3, 2013
Kim Dower talks with AM Northwest about "parenting your parents," one of the themes of Slice of Moon. To watch the video of this interview, click
Date: October 2, 2013
Helen Verongos from The New York Times chats with Tess Taylor about the many difficult themes of the poetry in her new book The Forage House. To read the full […]
Date: September 27, 2013
Verónica Reyes reads two poems from her new book, Chopper! Chopper! From Bordered Lives, in an
Date: September 13, 2013
Richmond Times-Dispatch's Michael Paul Williams covers the first-time meeting of Tess Taylor and another descendant of Thomas Jefferson, Gayle Jessup White. To read the full story, click
Date: September 11, 2013
Justin Goldberg from C-Ville Weekly talks with Tess Taylor about the use of poetry to discuss family history in The Forage House. To read the full interview, click
Date: September 9, 2013
In his article "Politics, poetry & pop: An Autumn of literary options," Jonathan Kirsch talks Kim Dower and her new collection of poetry. "Kim Dower is best known in these […]
Date: September 9, 2013
Mary Evelyn Greene talks to Lori Myers from Hippocampus Magazine about the struggles and triumphs of raising a child with Fetal Alcohol Sydrome. To read the full interview, click
Date: May 8, 2024
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 […]
Date: May 8, 2024
I’m one of three children of immigrants from the Philippines. My mother and father came to the United States with their respective families in the ’60s and ’70s and met […]
Date: May 2, 2024
There are few things more classically Freudian than autobiographical poems about a poet’s relationship with their mother, and this new collection by prolific former West Hollywood City Poet Laureate Kim […]
Date: April 29, 2024
Check out the extensive list of The Best Southern Books of April 2024 by Southern Review of Books at the link below!
Date: April 23, 2024
You Were Watching from the Sand (Pasadena CA: Red Hen, 2023, paper US$16.95), the debut short story collection by Haitian-born, South Florida-raised Harvard graduate Juliana Lamy, vividly portrays adolescent life […]
Date: April 23, 2024
I was driven, & I was moved. Your book travels through identities at night, like deer eyes I saw glowing over a road in upstate Wisconsin, arresting. Your words keep […]
Date: April 23, 2024
Helen Benedict’s The Good Deed is an ambitious, gorgeously written novel about the lives of refugees and the failure of systems to care for these vulnerable survivors of wars and […]
Date: April 23, 2024
Southern California-based Filipino American writer Tuazon (The Cussing Cat Clock) brings to readers a collection of 13 short stories, 11 of which have been previously published in slightly different forms. […]
Date: April 22, 2024
If you had to organize a bunch of poetry books into bins, like in an old-fashioned vinyl record store…and you were getting creative with your genres/tabs/etc., this book Sex Augury […]
Date: April 22, 2024
A coming-of-age tale combined with a pastoral horror story. Annika Rose Rogers graduates from high school with no real prospects for the future other than working alongside her father on […]
