Alta features CITY OF SMOKE AND SEA by Malia Márquez
Date: April 2, 2025
Malia Márquez’s City of Smoke and Sea is featured in Alta Journal’s “13 New Books for April” — a list of titles their editors are excited about.
News & Reviews
News:
Ms. Magazine includes THE SEA GIVES UP THE DEAD by Molly Olguín as one of the Most Anticipated Feminist Books of 2025
Date: April 1, 2025
The Sea Gives Up the Dead by Molly Olguín has been selected as one of Ms. Magazine’s Most Anticipated Feminist Books of 2025! Author Karla J. Strand shared her excitement […]
WBEZ Chicago features Elise Paschen, author of BLOOD WOLF MOON
Date: March 18, 2025
Poet Elise Paschen was recently featured in WBEZ Chicago, where she discussed Kitihawa, who, alongside her husband Jean Baptiste Point Du Sable, founded the city of Chicago. During the interview […]
The IBPA Highlights 30 years of Sucess at Red Hen Press
Date: March 4, 2025
In 1994, Kate Gale and Mark E. Cull co-founded Red Hen Press from their Los Angeles home, selling nearly all they owned to begin publishing poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction from talented writers. Today, Red […]
KATU2 Conversation with Kim Dower on Latest Book, WHAT SHE WANTS
Date: February 20, 2025
Poet Kim Dower, author of “What She Wants: Poems on Obsession, Desire, Despair, Euphoria,” joined us to share her latest poetry collection.
Library Journal Prepub Preview spotlights four Red Hen Press books
Date: February 18, 2025
We are pleased to announce that Library Journal’s Prepub Preview has featured four Red Hen Press titles: What She Wants by Kim Dower, We by April Ossmann, The Burning Heart […]
Local News Pasadena interviews David Mas Masumoto, author of SECRET HARVESTS
Date: February 10, 2025
“A Promise of Peaches” Many Japanese Americans advocate for human rights. There’s a reason.
April Ossmann featured in video, “Our Voices, Bodies Rising”.
Date: February 6, 2025
This original and unique pandemic film created by local Vermont artists and performers, marks the Centennial of Women’s Suffrage in dance and poetry, and is dedicated to Justice Ruth Bader […]
April Ossmann featured in NON-PARTISAN / TUNNEL BROOK, collaborated by Aaron Marcus, and Sam Sanders
Date: February 6, 2025
Every April in Montpelier, visitors can be found staring intently at store windows, to which are affixed hundreds of poems by local authors. This is how we gratefully stumbled on […]
The Australian features David Mason, author of PACIFIC LIGHT
Date: February 6, 2025
The Australian showcases David Mason’s poem EENSY.
Reviews:
Poetry Foundation reviews Didi Jackson’s MY INFINITY
Date: September 10, 2024
In Didi Jackson’s My Infinity, the “Northern sky stands so straight, / it uses the largest pines for crutches;” “The moon’s marias emerge / like age spots, monochromatic and ashy;” and […]
Kirkus reviews Christian Teresi’s WHAT MONSTERS YOU MAKE OF THEM
Date: September 9, 2024
“A cogent, skeptical collection that examines those whose stories are erased or preserved.”
Shelf Awareness reviews Eunice Hong’s MEMENTO MORI
Date: September 3, 2024
Eunice Hong’s exquisite debut Memento Mori won the 2021 Red Hen Press Fiction Award, chosen by judge Aimee Liu. Hong’s simple, well-worn opening line, “Once upon a time,” belies an intricate narrative […]
Library Journal reviews Percival Everett’s SONNETS FOR A MISSING KEY
Date: August 28, 2024
“VERDICT For enthusiasts of Percival’s writing”
Chicago Review of Books reviews Eunice Hong’s MEMENTO MORI
Date: August 26, 2024
“Our narrator’s story is painful and heart-breaking, a story of all we wish we could forget, a story of continuing to live even when you feel you don’t deserve it.”
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY features Percival Everett’s SONNETS FOR A MISSING KEY in THE MUST LIST!
Date: August 26, 2024
Thanks to Ryan Coleman, who wrote “Your favorite writer’s writer, Percival Everett, is now everyone’s fave thanks to American Fiction, the Oscar-nominated film adaptation of his book Erasure. His latest, a lyrical book of […]
PASADENA STAR-NEWS praises Percival Everett’s SONNETS FOR A MISSING KEY
Date: August 21, 2024
Huge thanks to Larry Wilson for this wonderful coverage!
Kirkus reviews Esinam Bediako’s BLOOD ON THE BRAIN
Date: August 21, 2024
“Smartly covers a few weeks of upheaval that push its heroine closer to adulthood.”
Lisa Russ Spaar reviews Didi Jackson’s MY INFINITY in the Second Acts column for the Adroit Journal!
Date: August 12, 2024
Poetry is hard to define even for those devoted to reading, writing, and studying it. “It is difficult,” William Carlos Williams famously wrote, “to get the news from poems,” but […]
KUOW Book Club reviews Kristen Millares Young’s SUBDUCTION
Date: August 7, 2024
Ultimately, this is what makes “Subduction” so effective and gut-wrenching: The characters are human, capable of great kindness and great corruption. The story feels lived in, like an old house […]