Judy Grahn Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry
Date: March 16, 2020
Red Hen Press is proud to announce that Judy Grahn’s book love belongs to those who do the feeling, published by Red Hen Press in 2008, won the 21st Annual Lambda Literary […]
News & Reviews
News:
David Mason was named the 2009 Thatcher Hoffman Smith Creativity in Motion Prize recipient.
Date: March 16, 2020
Poet David Mason, a professor of English at Colorado College, recently was named the 2009 Thatcher Hoffman Smith Creativity in Motion Prize recipient. The $40,000 will allow Mason to focus more […]
David Mason named Poet Laureate of Colorado!
Date: March 16, 2020
David Mason, author of Ludlow and News From the Village, has been named the next Poet Laureate of the great state of Colorado! Press release here. Some downloadabe info here. From the Governer’s Office: GOV. RITTER TO […]
Ron Koertge reading featured on Poetry.LA Video
Date: March 16, 2020
Ron Koertge reads with Andrea Scarpino and Mindy Nettifree at Beyond Baroque’s RED(D)DRESS series, curated by Red Hen’s own Brendan Constantine and filmed by the fine folks of Poetry.LA
Congratulations to Katharine Coles, a 2012 Guggenheim Fellow!
Date: March 16, 2020
Katharine Coles, the author Fault, as well as the forthcoming Flight and Reckless, has been named a 2012 Guggenheim Fellow! Congratulations, Kate! During her Guggenheim Fellowship period, she will be extending this work into a lyric […]
STEAM LAUNDRY chosen as 2017-2018 Statewide Alaska Reads Program featured selection
Date: March 16, 2020
STEAM LAUNDRY by Red Hen Poet Nicole Stellon O’Donnell was chosen as the 2017-2018 Statewide Alaska Reads program featured selection! Congratulations, Nicole!
John Domini’s Earthquake I.D. finalist for the Domenico Rea prize
Date: March 16, 2020
The Italian translation of John Domini’s EARTHQUAKE I.D. is a finalist for a major Italian award in the novel, the Domenico Rea prize. There are only five finalists, and TERREMOTO […]
Karen Gettert Shoemaker is big in Omaha!
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 […]
In April 2009, John Domini’s novel Earthquake I.D. appeared in Italian translation
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 […]
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.
Reviews:
Booklist reviews TIMBER & LUA by Vi Khi Nào and Lily Hoàng
Date: October 8, 2025
Award-winning interdisciplinary writers Hoàng and Nào provocatively interrogate language,comprehension, and communication in a global world. Their collaborative result is a polyglotshowcase that combines English, Vietnamese, and a hybrid Vietlish to […]
BIND ME TIGHTER STILL by Lara Ehrlich reviewed in PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Date: October 7, 2025
With nods to “The Little Mermaid,” Ehrlich’s lovely sophomore outing (after Animal Wife) again probes themes of womanhood and monstrosity. Ceto, a siren and hunter of men, yearns to break the […]
Midwest Book Review places Jade Shyback’s AQUEOUS on their September 2025 Bookshelf
Date: September 30, 2025
This is the debut novel written by author Jade Shyback. I believe this is the first book in the new young adult series. While the focus may be young adult, […]
A Review of Alison Hawthorne Deming: To Make the Broken Whole
Date: September 18, 2025
I finished Alison Hawthorne Deming’s latest poetry collection, Blue Flax and Yellow Mustard Flower, and sat quietly absorbing it, stunned by its power. Deming is a writer whose work in […]
TIMBER & LUA by Vi Khi Nào and Lily Hoàng reviewed in Publishers Weekly
Date: September 16, 2025
Nào (The Six Tons of Water) and Hoàng (Underneath) join forces for a lyrical bilingual story collection. Each tale is presented three times, first in a combination of English and […]
“Nimbly probes the corporeal, familial, and flighted,” West Trade Review on M. Soledad Caballero’s FLIGHT PLAN
Date: September 9, 2025
M. Soledad Caballero’s Flight Plan spans geographies both physical and psychological—from cells to continents, from quotidian to unusual, from grounded to soaring. Intertwining seemingly dissimilar topical threads that include cancer, a […]
Review of Cai Emmons’s THE BELLS featured in Kirkus Reviews
Date: September 2, 2025
An immersive psychological portrait of one man’s battle with lifelong anger and guilt. A young man’s troubles follow him after he trades his spiritual calling for life as a teacher. […]
A Review of Lara Ehrlich’s BIND ME TIGHTER STILL featured in Booklist
Date: August 28, 2025
Ehrlich, the author of the story collection Animal Wife (2020) presents a short and disturbing novel. Ceto is the cruel taskmaster of the sirens, women who are the main attraction in Sirenland, […]
Don’t let your child get the “summer slide”: TREE SPIRITS by Louise Wannier Reviewed in She Scribes
Date: August 7, 2025
This is not a reading book, however, it does encourage children to use their imaginations and “think outside the box.” That skill will help them later in life with critical […]
CHAGOS ARCHIPELAGO by Tom Lutz Featured in Publishers Weekly
Date: August 5, 2025
Troubled lives intersect in the Indian Ocean with explosive results in Lutz’s tantalizing follow-up to Born Slippy. Frank Baltimore worked in construction until one of his employees started laundering money and […]