Ron Koertge Writes for Huffington Post!
Date: March 16, 2020
Author Ron Koertge wrote a post for Huffington Post about why he loves to write flash fiction: “Flash fiction doesn’t mind giving pleasure. It has a palpable level of affection for its […]
News & Reviews
News:
Jamey Hecht finalist for 2009 Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize
Date: March 16, 2020
Jamey Hecht’s new manuscript Fate vs. United States has been declared a finalist in the just-concluded 2009 Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize. His 2009 Red Hen Press title, Limousine, Midnight Blue: Fifty […]
William Trowbridge Appointed State Poet Laureate of Missouri!
Date: March 16, 2020
Congratulations to William Trowbridge, Missouri’s newly appointed Poet Laureate! He’s the author, most recently, of Ship of Fool. His next collection, currently untitled, is due out in 2014. Read the press […]
Elise Paschen in Harvard Magazine
Date: March 16, 2020
Elise Paschen was featured in Harvard Magazine in a great article about her career as a poet. “Paschen’s poems are sharp arrows piercing some target in her personal landscape. Infidelities explores both the pleasures […]
Ship of Fool reviewed on Ron Slate’s website
Date: March 16, 2020
David Clewell, Poet Laureate of Missouri, gave an excellent review of William Trowbridge’s newest poetry collection Ship of Fool on Ron Slate’s website, On the Seawall. Focusing on a few of his […]
Elizabeth Bradfield wins Publishing Triangle Award for Lesbian Poetry
Date: March 16, 2020
Red Hen Press is proud to announce that Elizabeth Bradfield’s collection Interpretive Work, published by Red Hen Press in 2008, won the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry.
My Life in Clothes… in The Economist!
Date: March 16, 2020
Summer Brenner’s My Life in Clothes has received a very nice review in The Economist! The title of the piece? “You should be reading Summer Brenner.” We agree! They go on to say, […]
Ernest Hilbert Featured on Best American Poetry
Date: March 16, 2020
“Prophetic Outlook” [by Ernest Hilbert] Prophetic Outlook Crooks run the whole world, and the Dow just fell. Crap rules the airwaves. All your best plans stall. The air is dirty, […]
The Forage House and Speaking Wiri Wiri on Split This Rock’s Poetry Recomendation List
Date: March 16, 2020
Split This Rock named Tess Taylor’s The Forage House and Dan Vera’s Speaking Wiri Wiri under their annual poetry book recommendation list for 2013. “Every so often there is a book of poetry that […]
Tar River Poetry Reviews William Trowbridge’s Put This On
Date: March 16, 2020
Tar River Poetry gave a wonderful review of William Trowbridge’s Put This On, Please for their spring issue. He is praised for his skill of making poetry seem effortless and enjoyable for his […]
Reviews:
Readers’ Favorite calls Diane Thiel’s QUESTIONS FROM OUTER SPACE “a treasure trove of intelligent musings”!
Date: August 3, 2022
Diane Thiel’s much-awaited anthology of poetry, Questions from Outer Space, is worth the wait. This collection is divided into four parts, each touching on a particular subject or idea that […]
Diane Thiel’s QUESTIONS FROM OUTER SPACE Reviewed on The Line Break!
Date: July 21, 2022
Diane Thiel is the author of eleven books of poetry, nonfiction, and creative writing pedagogy, and Questions from Outer Space (Red Hen Press, 2022) is her third collection of poems. I purchased […]
‘Pamela Uschuk’s REFUGEE – Poems of Beauty & Anger’ A Review by Joseph Ross
Date: July 21, 2022
Pamela Uschuk is, in my view, one of our country’s best poets. Her new book, REFUGEE, shows precisely why. Her poems rise up from careful craft, scattering beauty, detailed descriptions, merged […]
‘Technology and Human Connection’ a Review Of I ONLY CRY WITH EMOTICONS
Date: July 21, 2022
Yuvi Zalkow’s I Only Cry with Emoticons tells the story of a damaged man trying to finish his novel as he wades through divorce, an unfulfilling work life, and complex […]
Diane Thiel’s QUESTIONS FROM OUTER SPACE reviewed by Colorado State University!
Date: July 11, 2022
Questions From Outer Space is about coming to terms with humanity’s destructive choices and orienting ourselves to life as a result. Diane Thiel’s poems lament our destruction of planet Earth and […]
the arts fuse reviews Carlos Allende’s COFFEE, SHOPPING, MURDER, LOVE!
Date: July 7, 2022
Coffee, Shopping, Murder, Love is a delightful beach read, a lampoon of American culture that provides plenty of suspenseful fun.
Carlos Allende’s COFFEE, SHOPPING, MURDER, LOVE reviewed by Seattle Book Review!
Date: July 7, 2022
Charlie, who has never found anything he doesn’t like to talk about, and Jignesh, a quiet, overweight East Indian business manager and embezzler, meet through a gay dating site. They […]
Novelist Kate Rounds reviews John Weir’s YOUR NOSTALGIA IS KILLING ME!
Date: July 6, 2022
For three decades, the novelist and short story writer John Weir has been spooling out wry, wrenching narratives that ground us in time and place. Now, Red Hen Press has […]
Yuvi Zalkow’s I ONLY CRY WITH EMOTICONS Reviewed in The Arts Fuse!
Date: July 5, 2022
Yuvi Zalkow’s novel I Only Cry with Emoticons is a defense of the personal encounter. As technology has become more advanced, we have become increasingly reliant on communicating via screens. Emojis have […]
Eamon Grennan’s PLAINCHANT reviewed by Poetry Foundation!
Date: June 29, 2022
Set as justified rectangles of text, often comprising a single, elaborate sentence on a page, the poems in Eamon Grennan’s new collection Plainchant (“these plain words—to be taken out at times of need”) appear […]