Ron Egatz featured on Verse Daily
Date: March 16, 2020
Ron Egatz’s poem “Valve Job,” from his collection Beneath Stars Long Extinct, has been featured on Verse Daily! Check it out here.
News & Reviews
News:
Rodney Wittwer Awarded an Artist Fellowship
Date: March 16, 2020
Future Red Hen author Rodney Wittwer, whose first collection, Gone & Gone, hits shelves in September, has been awarded an Artist Fellowship from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. He was one of […]
“The Meaning of Names” is the 2016 One Book One Nebraska selection!
Date: March 16, 2020
Karen Shoemaker’s The Meaning of Names is the official selection for the 2016 One Book One Nebraska program! The One Book One Nebraska program is sponsored by the Nebraska Center for the […]
Douglas Kearney recieves a Whiting Writers Award, 2008
Date: March 16, 2020
And We Shall March blog shared the news that Log Angeles poet, Douglas Kearney, just recieved one of the coveted 2008 Whiting Writers Awards, a $50,000 prize bestowed upon writers […]
Red Hen on the Radio: A Double Feature
Date: March 16, 2020
Red Hen writers are taking over the airwaves. Check out Camille Dungy talking about Suck on the Marrow and What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison with Word Ballast’s Billy […]
Amazon top 100 African American Titles–Cooling Board: A Long Playing Poem
Date: March 16, 2020
Cooling Board: A Long Playing Poem by Mitchell L. Douglas is on the Amazon.com list for top 100 African American Titles. Pick up your copy today! At a time when most […]
National Short Story Month: The Discount
Date: March 16, 2020
National Poetry Month has come and gone, as it does every year. It’s a fairly new phenomenon, the National [Art Form] Month; National Poetry Month only dates from the mid […]
John Domini Reviews
Date: March 16, 2020
John Domini, a Red Hen Press author, publishes many book reviews. One published review, found in Bookforum, has been selected by the National Book Critics Circle as a feature for their blog and […]
Ludlow named Best New Book of Poetry 2007 by Contemporary Poetry Review
Date: March 16, 2020
Best Book of Contemporary Poetry: Ludlow by David Mason (Red Hen Press). The book-length poem has been a very risky venture in the last century. Few efforts can be counted as successes […]
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.
Reviews:
WAVE IF YOU CAN SEE ME reviewed by AS IT OUGHT TO BE magazine!
Date: May 12, 2021
In “How It Can Happen,” one of the first poems in this fine new collection, the narrator imagines death as Shakespeare’s “other country.” She writes, “I go with you, / […]
Judy Grahn’s TOUCHING CREATURES, TOUCHING SPIRIT reviewed on EcoLit Books!
Date: May 10, 2021
The stories and essays of Touching Creatures, Touching Spirit: Living in a Sentient World form a beautiful tapestry of communications across species and consciousness. From grateful dragonflies to fatherless strawberries to companionable […]
GHOST IN A BLACK GIRL’S THROAT by Khalisa Rae reviewed in The Rumpus!
Date: May 10, 2021
I was new to the seventh grade when Ms. Rossi routinely refused to acknowledge me. Though my hand stabbed the air in response to questions she posed, Ms. Rossi never […]
DON’T GO CRAZY WITHOUT ME by Deborah A. Lott reviewed in Brevity!
Date: May 3, 2021
Deborah A. Lott’s Don’t Go Crazy Without Me: A Tragicomic Memoir is the story of a young woman’s coming of age and how she separates her own identity from her family’s. She […]
Publishers Weekly reviews BUY ME LOVE!
Date: April 26, 2021
Cooley (The Archivist) examines the unexpected aftermath of a lottery win in her sharp latest. Click here to read more!
Necessary Fiction takes a look at STRANGE CHILDREN by Sadie Hoagland!
Date: April 26, 2021
Many in our culture are fascinated by polygamy, a popular topic of reality TV, dramas, and news media coverage. It is hard to look away when these stories focus on […]
THE PLAYWRIGHT’S HOUSE reviewed in Publishers Weekly!
Date: April 21, 2021
Read the full review of Dariel Suarez upcoming novel here!
Midwest Book Review takes a look at Sebastian Matthews’ BEYOND REPAIR!
Date: April 14, 2021
Synopsis: In 2011, the family of Sebastian Matthews was in a major car accident. They were hit head-on by a man in the throes of a heart attack. It took […]
GHOST IN A BLACK GIRL’S THROAT by Khalisa Rae reviewed in Marías at Sampaguitas!
Date: April 14, 2021
Ghost in a Black Girl’s Throat, published in April 2021 by Red Hen Press, is poet Khalisa Rae’s debut collection, following her 2012 chapbook, Real Girls Have Real Problems. Rae […]
OPEN THE DARK by Marie Tozier reviewed on Terrain.org!
Date: April 12, 2021
Alaskan Inupiaq poet Marie Tozier’s new collection Open the Dark challenges—but also aligns with—western notions of linear time. Early on, the collection announces a cyclic, wheeling view of time as it unfolds […]