Date: March 16, 2020
Recently, The Omaha Public Library chose Karen Gettert Shoemaker’s new novel, The Meaning of Names, as its 2014 Omaha Reads Selection. To complement this, the library interviewed Karen on everything from […]
Date: March 16, 2020
The Italian title is Terremoto Napoletano, the translator Stefano Manferlotti, and the press Tullio Pironti Editore. Early reviews have been very strong. In Il Mattino, Fabrizio Coscia calls it: “a voyage […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Date: March 16, 2020
The Bob and Weave Jim Peterson. Red Hen (CDC, dist.), $16.95 (120p) ISBN 1-888996-65-X Jim Peterson’s poems are filled with the things of this world– its horses, hands, stones, and […]
Date: March 16, 2020
“The Chicago poet has spread the good wordings via book, CD, and subway.”
Date: March 16, 2020
Timothy Lindner of The Literary Review gave a great review for Gary Dop’s Father, Child, Water! Lindner spotlights and relates to how Dop focuses on paternal relationships and their ability to shape our […]
Date: March 16, 2020
Scott Hightower reviews Cynthia Hogue’s Or Consequence in the arts review, Fogged Clarity (April 2011). According to Hightower, Hogue is “a poet of extreme precision and no histrionics.”
Date: March 16, 2020
John Cotter A Gringo Like Me by Jennifer L. Knox Soft Skull Press, 2005, 95p, $13.95 Lamp of the Body by Maggie Smith Red Hen Press, 2005, 69p, $12.95 Some Mountains Removed by […]
Date: March 16, 2020
Kristofer Collins, from Pittsburgh Magazine, calls Gainey’s the Gaffer a “treasure trove of backstage stories” refering to her 35 years as chief lighting technician in Hollywood. Collins had this to say: “Gaineys work […]
Date: March 16, 2020
What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison by Camille T. Dungy. Red Hen Press, 88 pp., $15.95 (paper). Dungy’s powerful first collection recognizes language–“A stranger’s voice echoing […]
Date: March 16, 2020
Hector Tobar from the LA Times applauds Eloise Klein Healy’s treatment of the city of Los Angeles, and comments on “what an inspired choice she was” for the first poet […]
Date: March 16, 2020
Reading the poet Jeannine Savard’s latest collection My Hand upon Your Name (Red Hen Press, $12.95) is like entering a dream world. The poems are full of fantastical images, strange […]
Date: March 16, 2020
The Rumpus conducted a stunning review of Lena Khalaf Tuffaha’s WATER & SALT, her debut collection of moving and powerful poetry. “Tuffaha harnesses the legerdemain of lyric to link love […]
