My Life in Clothes… in The Economist!
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, […]
News & Reviews
News:
Ernest Hilbert Featured on Best American Poetry
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, […]
The Forage House and Speaking Wiri Wiri on Split This Rock’s Poetry Recomendation List
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 […]
Tar River Poetry Reviews William Trowbridge’s Put This On
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 […]
Camille Dungy blogs for the Poetry Foundation
Date: March 16, 2020
William Trowbridge Appointed State Poet Laureate of Missouri!
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 […]
Elise Paschen in Harvard Magazine
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 […]
Ship of Fool reviewed on Ron Slate’s website
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 […]
Elizabeth Bradfield wins Publishing Triangle Award for Lesbian Poetry
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.
Loren W. Cooper is a 2018 Endeavour Award Finalist!
Date: March 16, 2020
Congratulations to Red Hen author Loren W. Cooper! She was recently announced as a finalist for the 2018 Endeavor Award. The award honors a distinguished science fiction or fantasy book, either […]
Reviews:
North Of Oxford Praises MORNING LEAVES by Laing Rikkers
Date: July 1, 2026
“Rikkers opens her heart to the reader and expresses ways to deal with both life and grief. She is a skillful author with an honest and sincere voice.”
Military Families Magazine Names Helen Benedict’s THE SOLDIER’S HOUSE To A List Of Best Summer Books
Date: June 30, 2026
The third novel in a connected trilogy written over more than a decade, “The Soldier’s House” follows an American veteran of the war in Iraq and his interpreter’s widow and child, […]
Chapter House Praises William Archila’s CANICULA
Date: June 29, 2026
“During this moment of madness and unmitigated cruelty, we need Archila’s words”
Heavy Feather Review Praises Vi Khi Nào & Lily Hoàng’s TIMBER & LUA
Date: June 25, 2026
I appreciate it when a book in some way replicates something I’ve experienced in real life in a way that no other book has, and this one replicates my experiences […]
Zara Rabb Reviews COLD FIRE by David Mason
Date: June 23, 2026
Cold Fire often draws skillfully on imagery from the various places Mason knows through his travels, and in the best poems, he writes from a deep comprehension of both our 21st century […]
Khanh Ha’s AFTERLIFE OF A THREADBARE JESTER Named in List Of Top Historical Fiction Picks
Date: June 23, 2026
“The Afterlife of a Threadbare Jester is definitely the most interesting.”
Library Journal Reviews WALKING WHEEL by Molly Fisk
Date: June 17, 2026
“With a narrative that immediately draws in readers, these poems are lovely, the story, irresistible.”
Australian Book Review Heralds David Mason’s COLD FIRE
Date: June 15, 2026
“Migration, travel, and home – geographic and metaphoric – are common subjects in this collection. ‘Listen well’, the speaker in “The Monuments’ urges, as he describes a violinist busking in […]
California Review of Books Praises TALKING TO THE WOLF by Rebecca Chace
Date: June 15, 2026
“Chace makes each woman complex in her urgency, in good part because of the strength of the writing that penetrates to their core.”
Jacobin Reviews Luke Goebel’s KILL DICK
Date: June 11, 2026
“Like a good actor, Kill Dick hits its marks, stays true to the script, controls its eyeline to avoid spiking the camera. Is it real? You look up from the page to […]