New York Times featuring Tess Taylor’s poetry!
Date: June 2, 2020
Poem: I Gave My Love a Story Selected by Naomi Shihab Nye
News & Reviews
News:
Zyzzyva’s “The Intimacy of Breath” Essay by Tess Taylor
Date: June 2, 2020
Here is the strange thing: I was already writing poems about the precariousness of California. I’d been writing them for ten years, since I moved back from New York and came […]
La Treintena: 30 Books of Latinx Poetry
Date: June 1, 2020
NYU’s The Latinx Project features two Red Hen titles: After Rubén by Francisco Aragón and Body of Render by Felicia Zamora!
Alta: Talking with Tess Taylor
Date: May 29, 2020
Tess Taylor’s poetry is a literary collage: an assemblage of the poet’s words and the ontology of California itself. In two collections out this year, Rift Zone and Last West: Roadsongs for Dorothea […]
Poets and Writers: Authors Reimagine Live Events During the Coronavirus Pandemic
Date: May 29, 2020
Still, digital events aren’t for everyone. Poet Tess Taylor is publishing two collections this spring, Last West: Roadsongs for Dorothea Lange, commissioned by New York’s Museum of Modern Art, and Rift Zone, […]
The Millions Must-Read Poetry: April 2020
Date: May 29, 2020
The Millions Nick Ripatrazone lists Tess Taylor’s Rift Zone: California: pastoral, urban, suburban—home to myth and magic. Taylor’s book is geologic in concept and theme, both panoramic and particular (her […]
Ms. Magazine Poetry for the Rest of Us: 2020 Roundup
Date: May 28, 2020
The Feminist Know-It-All: You know her. You can’t stand her. Good thing she’s not here! Instead, this column by gender and women’s studies librarian Karla Strand will amplify stories of the creation, access, use and […]
Rekindled: Andrew Altschul in Conversation With Ellen Meeropol
Date: May 27, 2020
On this episode of Rekindled, Andrew Altschul is in conversation with Ellen Meeropol. Andrew Altschul’s third novel, The Gringa, was published the day before the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus crisis […]
A Modern-Day Bay Area Poet Recreated the Journey of Legendary Photographer Dorothea Lange
Date: May 27, 2020
“She inspired me as a model of persistence.” So says Tess Taylor, a poet in the Bay Area, who undertook the journey once travelled by Dorothea Lange, the extraordinary woman photographer. […]
Kim Dower’s poetry is one of Oprah’s favorite things!
Date: March 16, 2020
The December 2013 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine calls the poems in Slice of Moon, “unexpected and sublime.” Find a copy to see Kim’s new collection featured in the “Put It In […]
Reviews:
From the Antioch Review
Date: March 16, 2020
What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison by Camille T. Dungy. Red Hen Press, 88 pp., $15.95 (paper). Dungy’s powerful first collection recognizes language–“A stranger’s voice echoing […]
Poet Savard pulls off resounding collection
Date: March 16, 2020
Reading the poet Jeannine Savard’s latest collection My Hand upon Your Name (Red Hen Press, $12.95) is like entering a dream world. The poems are full of fantastical images, strange […]
The Rumpus reviews WATER & SALT
Date: March 16, 2020
The Rumpus conducted a stunning review of Lena Khalaf Tuffaha’s WATER & SALT, her debut collection of moving and powerful poetry. “Tuffaha harnesses the legerdemain of lyric to link love […]
Once
Date: March 16, 2020
Philip Gross, winner of the 2009 T.S. Eliot Prize, reviewed Andrea Scarpino’s Once, Then for the UK journal, The North. Gross discusses the poetry saying that “the subject sounds depressing, the effect […]
Kim Dower’s poetry is one of Oprah’s favorite things!
Date: March 16, 2020
The December 2013 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine calls the poems in Slice of Moon, “unexpected and sublime.” Find a copy to see Kim’s new collection featured in the “Put It In […]
The Pedestal Magazine reviews Carnal Fragrance
Date: March 16, 2020
Carnal Fragrance Florence Weinberger. Red Hen (CDC, dist.), $12.95 (72p) ISBN 1-888996-95-1 In this blunt, book-length meditation on her husband’s death from metastatic melanoma, Florence Weinberger rips the morphine drip […]
Pope Brock’s new article The Moon Is Full of Money
Date: March 16, 2020
Pope Brock shares an excerpt from his newest release, ANOTHER FINE MESS, on Nautilus in an article titled “The Moon is Full of Money” Read the full article here. Pope Brock […]
The Literary Review reviews Amplified Dog
Date: March 16, 2020
Amplified Dog Charles Harper Webb. Red Hen (CDC, dist.), $15.95 (96p) ISBN 978-1-59709-022-3 In the title poem of Charles Harper Webb’s sixth book of poems, Amplified Dog, a dog barking […]
Review of Sixty Sonnet in BookSlut
Date: March 16, 2020
The sonnet is an enduring lyric monument, one of the few postclassical forms that refuses to die. Almost every major poet writing in a Western language has attempted to stand […]
Jeannine M. Lesinski’s review on NewPages.com
Date: March 16, 2020
“The poem mingles aural and visual music: The caesurae [unable to be reproduced here] audibly create rhythm, while visually recalling the fragments of the fractal that are repeatedly broken down […]