Date: March 16, 2020
If you have ever wanted to get a taste of Ellen Meeropol’s writing, here is a great opportunity. Shakinglikeamountain.com has posted an enticing excerpt from Ellen’s Spring 2011 title House Arrest. […]
Date: March 16, 2020
The New Criterion has a nice review up of David Mason’s lyrical memoir, News from the Village: Aegean Friends. Here’s a taste: “In one of the book’s most eloquent passages, […]
Date: March 16, 2020
Congratulations to William Trowbridge, Missouri’s newly appointed Poet Laureate! He’s the author, most recently, of Ship of Fool. His next collection, currently untitled, is due out in 2014. Read the press […]
Date: March 16, 2020
Elise Paschen was featured in Harvard Magazine in a great article about her career as a poet. “Paschen’s poems are sharp arrows piercing some target in her personal landscape. Infidelities explores both the pleasures […]
Date: March 16, 2020
David Clewell, Poet Laureate of Missouri, gave an excellent review of William Trowbridge’s newest poetry collection Ship of Fool on Ron Slate’s website, On the Seawall. Focusing on a few of his […]
Date: March 16, 2020
Red Hen Press is proud to announce that Elizabeth Bradfield’s collection Interpretive Work, published by Red Hen Press in 2008, won the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry.
Date: March 16, 2020
Summer Brenner’s My Life in Clothes has received a very nice review in The Economist! The title of the piece? “You should be reading Summer Brenner.” We agree! They go on to say, […]
Date: March 16, 2020
“Prophetic Outlook” [by Ernest Hilbert] Prophetic Outlook Crooks run the whole world, and the Dow just fell. Crap rules the airwaves. All your best plans stall. The air is dirty, […]
Date: March 16, 2020
Split This Rock named Tess Taylor’s The Forage House and Dan Vera’s Speaking Wiri Wiri under their annual poetry book recommendation list for 2013. “Every so often there is a book of poetry that […]
Date: March 16, 2020
Tar River Poetry gave a wonderful review of William Trowbridge’s Put This On, Please for their spring issue. He is praised for his skill of making poetry seem effortless and enjoyable for his […]
Date: March 16, 2020
and a timely ghazal from Tasmania
Date: March 16, 2020
“As with all of the best books of poems, read it until it is wrecked.”
Date: March 16, 2020
Over the weekend, Amy Elisabeth Hansen of Passages North Literary Journal reviewed Andrea Scarpino’s Once, Then, calling it “a monument to people and times past.” Hansen writes, “These poems work like gifts, maybe […]
Date: March 16, 2020
American Fractal Laurie Blauner. Red Hen (CDC, dist.), $18.95 (104p) ISBN 978-1-59709-130-5 In Timothy Green’s appropriately titled American Fractal a whole vision is created from fragments of American myths, family, […]
Date: March 16, 2020
Mike Marshall Wilson of Necessary Fiction provided a glowing review of Siel Ju’s CAKE TIME here, praising the novel-in-stories as “an irresistible read with tonal payoffs that are at times momentous […]
Date: March 16, 2020
Huge thanks to author Melissa Grunow for writing a wonderful review of CIRCADIAN on The Coil. As she puts it, “Clammers vital essays challenge everything we know as true & scientific, […]
Date: March 16, 2020
Elissa Washuta met up with Rich Smith of City Arts Magazine last week to discuss her upcoming memoir My Body Is a Book of Rules. Of the memoir, Smith states, “My Body Is […]
Date: March 16, 2020
Roberto Bonazzi of My San Antonio reviewed Lena Khalaf Tuffaha’s WATER & SALT, saying “Tuffaha’s collection is an extraordinary debut.” Thanks, Roberto!
Date: March 16, 2020
Appetite Jean-Mark Sens. Red Hen (CDC, dist.), $11.95 (98p) ISBN 1-888996-98-6 Jean-Mark Sens serves us a world that we thought we knew. Each of Sens’ lines twists the lens of […]
Date: March 16, 2020
“In her debut collection, Brown weaves poetic phrases to take her readers on a journey that satisfies from the initiation to the conclusion, as she enlightens about the dysfunctional yet […]
