Rebecca O’Conner’s LIFT featured in Heyday Anthology
Date: March 16, 2020
The fall 2009 Heyday Anthology features an excerpt from Rebecca O’Conner’s, LIFT.
News & Reviews
News:
Alphabet Conspiracy featured on The Rumpus
Date: March 16, 2020
Rita Mae Reese’s new book, The Alphabet Conspiracy, was reviewed on The Rumpus: “But at their best, they speak in deceptively straightforward, accessible language, without aiming to impart lessons to the […]
Johanna Stoberock’s PIGS included in Buzzfeeds “15 Small Press Books To Kick Off Your 2020 Reading Season”!
Date: January 13, 2020
Here are 15 recent and upcoming books from small presses that span everything from fantasy and crime fiction to memoir and literary short stories.
The Seattle Review announces that PIGS author Johanna Stoberock wins LaSalle Storyteller Award!
Date: December 3, 2019
Artist Trust has announced that Walla Walla author Johanna Stoberock is this year’s recipient of the LaSalle Storyteller Award. The LaSalle Award, which gives $10,000 to a Washington state storyteller with no […]
Union Bulletin shares that PIGS author Johanna Stoberock is the 2019 LaSalle Storyteller Award recipient!
Date: December 2, 2019
Artist Trust today named Whitman College Senior Adjunct Assistant Professor of English and General Studies Johanna Stoberock as its 2019 LaSalle Storyteller Award recipient. The 2019 award recognizes an outstanding literary artist working in […]
Kirkus Reviews reports on Johanna Stoberock’s PIGS being on the Tournament of Books Longlist!
Date: November 22, 2019
The Morning News has unveiled the longlist for their 2020 Tournament of Books, which is almost certainly the only literary competition in the country where the winner receives livestock as a prize. Sixty-two […]
The Wesleyan Connection includes PIGS author Johanna Stoberock in their “You Just Haveto Read This…” list!
Date: November 18, 2019
In the sixth of this continuing series, Sara McCrea ’21, a College of Letters major from Boulder, Colo., reviews alumni books and offers a selection for those in search of knowledge, insight, […]
PIGS by Johanna Stoberock makes the 2020 Tournament of Books Long List!
Date: November 12, 2019
The most excellent, Rooster-worthy books of 2019. Look for our shortlist of competitors next month for the 2020 Tournament of Books, presented by Field Notes.
New Books Network interviews Johanna Stoberock, author of PIGS!
Date: October 31, 2019
In her new novel Pigs (Red Hen Press, 2019), Johanna Stoberock has written a lyrical fable about an island that receives all the world’s garbage. That garbage, both physical and psychological in the forms […]
Campaign for the American Reader features PIGS by Johanna Stoberock!
Date: October 15, 2019
Four children live on an island that serves as the repository for all the world’s garbage. Trash arrives, the children sort it, and then they feed it to a herd […]
Reviews:
Kirkus Reviews features Laila Halaby’s THE WEIGHT OF GHOSTS!
Date: June 5, 2023
The illegitimate daughter of a white mother and a Jordanian father, Halaby, author of two novels and two collections of poetry, felt that she was a “fiction…squished between other people’s […]
Ann Poore reviews Katharine Coles’ GHOST APPLES for 15 Bytes!
Date: June 1, 2023
Ghost Apples, the ninth collection of poems by Katharine Coles – who might be a witch (IMHO) given the ready way she connects with animals (including her parrot Henri, pronounced […]
VerseCurious reviews Phuong T. Vuong’s A PLUCKED ZITHER!
Date: June 1, 2023
I review Phuong T. Vuong’s A Plucked Zither, from Red Hen Press (June 6, 2023). Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/versecurious/donations
Francesca Bell’s WHAT SMALL SOUND receives a Starred Review from Shelf Awareness!
Date: May 23, 2023
Francesca Bell (Bright Stain) writes poems that chime like the bell of her own name: bright but resonant, sharp but still familiar, lush and likely to echo long after its […]
Lake County Examiner features Kim Dower’s collection, SLICE OF MOON!
Date: May 23, 2023
Did you read “Slice of Moon,” our poetry book for May? If you didn’t, I don’t blame you; many people shy away from poetry, and I am one of them. […]
Recovering Words features Francesca Bell’s WHAT SMALL SOUND!
Date: May 16, 2023
Manifest Image The man keeps telling me I am beautiful.I still look young. He says it like I’ve asked for it,but I don’t care. For him or beauty. I am […]
WHAT SMALL SOUND by Francesca Bell Reviewed in Caesura Literary!
Date: May 15, 2023
This collection immediately thrusts us into scenes of relative comfort and privilege that are all too often interrupted by the violent horrors plaguing this current time. Mind you, the terms […]
Brenda Cárdenas’ TRACE featured in ‘La Treintena 2023: 30 (Something) Books of Latinx Poetry’!
Date: May 11, 2023
Over the past year, Latina/o/x poets spanning vast aesthetics, experiences, and geographies have dazzled me with collections that reveal the complexity and beauty of our communities in all their irreducible […]
REFUGEE by Pamela Uschuk reviewed in Compulsive Reader!
Date: May 8, 2023
How can we take refuge amid the pains of this world? In this collection, Pamela Uschuk, winner of an American Book Award in 2010, faces the realities of recent social […]
THE SKIN OF MEANING by Keith Flynn Reviewed in North of Oxford!
Date: May 1, 2023
The Skin of Meaning by Keith Flynn is an interesting mixture of contemporary reactions to issues that affect us in the twenty-first century. Keith presents one hundred and eighty-one pages of poetry divided […]