Date: January 28, 2025
Shelf Awareness interviewed Kim Dower to discuss her career highlights, share some intriguing gossip, explore what has sustained her over the years, and learn how she has merged her roles […]
Date: January 21, 2025
Jenny Factor, acclaimed poet and Beverly Hills native, shares her journey from a unique childhood to Harvard and beyond. In this compelling conversation, she reflects on her lifelong passion for […]
Date: January 21, 2025
In this episode of SoCal Poets in Conversation, Elena Karina Byrne and Kim Dower, who have very different poetic styles, reflect on the themes they have in common, including “longing,” […]
Date: January 21, 2025
“In A Professional Lola, a joyful, weird, and eclectic collection of short stories from Grace Paley award winner E.P. Tuazon, there is an intimacy that makes you, the reader, feel […]
Date: December 10, 2024
Huge thanks to the editors at Brittle Paper for inclusion in this incredible list!
Date: December 5, 2024
Red Hen Press is thrilled to welcome nine new members to our Executive Board, whose diverse range of expertise in marketing, branding, and governance will help advance the core values […]
Date: December 3, 2024
Date: December 3, 2024
THE FIRST BOOK: HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE The Author: Esinam Bediako | Instagram: @esi_the_lurker The Book: Blood on the Brain (Red Hen Press, 2024) The Elevator Pitch: Can a 24-year-old Ghanaian American woman outrun a breakup, […]
Date: November 26, 2024
Esinam Bediako is remarkably self-assured in this debut novel; it’s the kind of funny, compassionate book you want your friends to read so you can talk about it with someone […]
Date: November 19, 2024
Didi Jackson: On Love Stories, Migraines, Being Ever-Present on the Page, and Her Poetry Collection, ‘My Infinity’ Nov 19 Written By Brittany Ackerman Four months postpartum, I stood inside the home […]
Date: March 16, 2020
The passionate, yet controlled, third volume from Paschen (Infidelities) pursues the likenesses between human beings and other sorts of beasts: Paschen watches domestic animals, visits zoos and backyards, and records […]
Date: March 16, 2020
Allegheny, Monongahela Erinn Batykefer. Red Hen (CDC, dist.), $16.95 (88p) ISBN 978-1-59709-134-3 Close to the bone, Erinn Batykefer’s poems — sharp-edged as O’Keeffe’s paintings, skeletons visible and harrowing — are […]
Date: March 16, 2020
Tablet Magazine features an except from Anne Edelstein’s memoir, LIFESAVING FOR BEGINNERS! In the excerpt, Edelstein recollects the moment her mother, an experienced swimmer, drowned while on vacation at the […]
Date: March 16, 2020
Archeology of Desire Miriam Sagan. Red Hen (CDC, dist.), $8.95 (56p) ISBN 1-888996-32-3 Newly published poetry, which is the focus of this week’s column, rarely receives the level of attention […]
Date: March 16, 2020
Alphabet of Love Bart Edelman. Red Hen (CDC, dist.), $9.95 (72p) ISBN 1-888996-09-9 For some months, I have been intending to post a brief review of poet Bart Edelman’s book, […]
Date: March 16, 2020
“This meditative, grace-filled gem is moving and soul-enriching.” — Kathleen Gerard, blogger at Reading Between the Lines
Date: March 16, 2020
Lizzy Baldwin, creator of My Little Book Blog, praises Louise Wareham Leonard’s writing style, calling it “beautiful and languid.” Baldwin loved how 52 Men was able to give so much story in […]
Date: March 16, 2020
“Frankness and love are brought together with Brown’s brilliant combination of the sacred and vernacular. . . . Brown alternates the poems’ shapes on the page, giving us the sense […]
Date: March 16, 2020
Barbaric Mercies Gaylord Brewer. Red Hen (CDC, dist.), $12.95 (88p) ISBN 1-888996-67-6 Gaylord Brewer’s Barbaric Mercies is a book of extraordinary and delightful individuality. Alternately aggressive, outrageous, whimsical, and heartfelt, […]
Date: March 16, 2020
“how to get over is an instruction manual for the hopeless navigating uncomfortable personal spaces where the need to transform begins.” HOW TO GET OVER has been reviewed by The Blueshift […]
