“The Nightlife” shortlisted for the 2017 Chicago Review of Books Awards!
Date: March 16, 2020
THE NIGHTLIFE by Red Hen Author Elise Paschen has been
News & Reviews
News:
Mitchell Douglas nominated for a Hurston/Wright!
Date: March 16, 2020
Mitchell Douglas, author of Cooling Board: A Long Playing Poem, has been nominated for a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, in the Poetry category. Congratulations Mitchell! More info here.
Camille Dungy on Verse Daily and PSA
Date: March 16, 2020
The Poetry Society of America has a great interview with Camille Dungy about that nebulously national literature, American Poetry. Read the full thing here. Her poem “Sunday Morning,” from her new […]
Allow Us to Introduce You to Louise Wareham Leonard’s 52 MEN!”
Date: March 16, 2020
Louise Wareham Leonard’s, 52 Men, is an intense “micro-novel” that captures the emotional and physical possibilities of encounters between 52 men and one woman in the Manhattan of the late twentieth […]
Amy Uyematsu Writes for Huffington Post
Date: March 16, 2020
Author Amy Uyematsu wrote a post for Huffington Post about growing up in a time where there weren't many other Asian-American poets, and how that has had a large impact […]
Red Hen author Verónica Reyes featured in The Advocate
Date: March 16, 2020
Red Hen author, Verónica Reyes, is featured in The Advocate for her recent Lambda Award nomination. The Lambda Award is sponsored by The Lambda Literary Foundation that "nurtures, celebrates, and […]
Congrats to Eloise!
Date: March 16, 2020
House Arrest excerpt posted on Shaking Like a Mountain
Date: March 16, 2020
If you have ever wanted to get a taste of Ellen Meeropol’s writing, here is a great opportunity. Shakinglikeamountain.com has posted an enticing excerpt from Ellen’s Spring 2011 title House Arrest. […]
The New Criterion reviews News from the Village
Date: March 16, 2020
The New Criterion has a nice review up of David Mason’s lyrical memoir, News from the Village: Aegean Friends. Here’s a taste: “In one of the book’s most eloquent passages, […]
My Life in Clothes… in the Wall Street Journal!
Date: March 16, 2020
First the Economist, then the Wall Street Journal, and then the world! Summer Brenner’s wonderful short story collection, My Life in Clothes, has been featured in the Wall Street Journal‘s holiday gift […]
Reviews:
The Hudred Fathom Curve in The Midwest Book Review
Date: October 3, 2011
In August 2011 The Midwest Book Review's Wisconsin Bookwatch wrote about John Barr's book of poems. "The Hundred Fathom Curve is John Barr's exploration of Americana from the perspectives of […]
Sasha West’s review of Cold Angel of Mercy
Date: October 3, 2011
Poet Sasha West examines the language of Amy Randolph in Randolph's book Cold Angel of Mercy. "Randolph's crisp, searing voice is evident in her facility with image." —Sasha West
The Hudson Review looks at Ship of Fool
Date: October 3, 2011
In the sixty-fourth volume of The Hudson Review, Peter Makuck praises William Trowbridge's book, Ship of Fool. "William Trowbridge's Ship of Fool had me laughing out loud . . . […]
Fred Chapel reviews The Owning Stone
Date: September 30, 2011
“My favorite poems here include the title poem about a talisman stone that emblemizes the omnipresence of past time, ‘Something Old,’ ‘Someone’s Father,’ the bitterly ironic ‘Fish to Fry,’ ‘Trucks […]
Stephen Dobyns
Date: August 2, 2011
At first glance Jim Tilleys In Confidence seems to consist of calm, graceful poems of upper middle class domesticity, but turkey vultures wait in the yard and many stories have […]
The Midwest Book Reviews’ take on Among the Goddesses
Date: August 2, 2011
"Driven and powerful writing in play format, Among the Goddesses is an excellent read and a first pick for literary fiction and poetry collections." The full review can be seen
Alicia Ostriker, author of No Heaven and The Book of Seventy reviews Among the Goddesses
Date: August 1, 2011
Among the Goddesses is a bold experiment. Magical, mystical, musical, it charts a woman's journey that reverses the journey of Odysseus. What is it to be aided by goddesses, if […]
From Publishers Weekly
Date: August 1, 2011
In yet another variation of a vampire love story, Eidus (The War of the Rosens) introduces Lilith Zeremba, a college freshman who has declared herself, over and over, to be […]
Booklist loves The Last Jewish Virgin
Date: July 31, 2011
Fiction is subject to viruses, and the vampire bug strikes the unlikeliest writers. Witty and incisive Eidus (The War of the Rosens, 2007) has always drawn our attention to the […]
Claudia Emerson reviews In Confidence
Date: July 31, 2011
In Jim Tilley's In Confidence, we see the internal and external workings of the world through a mature poets multifaceted lens. Crafting his poems with formal care, Tilley always aims […]