Congrats to Eloise!
Date: March 16, 2020
News & Reviews
News:
“The Nightlife” shortlisted for the 2017 Chicago Review of Books Awards!
Date: March 16, 2020
THE NIGHTLIFE by Red Hen Author Elise Paschen has been
Mitchell Douglas nominated for a Hurston/Wright!
Date: March 16, 2020
Mitchell Douglas, author of Cooling Board: A Long Playing Poem, has been nominated for a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, in the Poetry category. Congratulations Mitchell! More info here.
Camille Dungy on Verse Daily and PSA
Date: March 16, 2020
The Poetry Society of America has a great interview with Camille Dungy about that nebulously national literature, American Poetry. Read the full thing here. Her poem “Sunday Morning,” from her new […]
Suck on the Marrow wins an American Book Award!
Date: March 16, 2020
Camille Dungy’s Suck on the Marrow has won an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation! For those of you keeping score at home, that’s the sixth significant honor this book […]
Ron Koertge Writes for Huffington Post!
Date: March 16, 2020
Author Ron Koertge wrote a post for Huffington Post about why he loves to write flash fiction: “Flash fiction doesn’t mind giving pleasure. It has a palpable level of affection for its […]
Jamey Hecht finalist for 2009 Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize
Date: March 16, 2020
Jamey Hecht’s new manuscript Fate vs. United States has been declared a finalist in the just-concluded 2009 Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize. His 2009 Red Hen Press title, Limousine, Midnight Blue: Fifty […]
Chopper! Chopper! listed as a 2014 Book of the Year by Latina Book Club
Date: March 16, 2020
The Latina Book Club recently announced its 2nd Annual Books of the Year List. All books chosen were either written by Latino authors, or contain noteworthy Latino characters. Verónica Reyes’ beautifully […]
Amy Schutzer Opens Up to Shelf Unbound
Date: March 16, 2020
Amy Schutzer gave an interview to Shelf Unbound and talked about her creative writing process and influences for her new book, Spheres of Disturbance. “When I begin a novel, it is […]
House Arrest excerpt posted on Shaking Like a Mountain
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. […]
Reviews:
ANIMAL WIFE gets a 5 star review from the Lisa Albright of the GirlyBookClub!
Date: January 4, 2021
5 stars I wasn’t sure what to expect with this collection of short stories and I don’t read them often so I was pleasantly surprised to find that once I […]
Throwback to the Brevity Nonfiction review of Julia Koets’ THE RIB JOINT!
Date: December 16, 2020
The lyric essay form, reliant on gaps and fragmentation, beautifully aligns with Koets’ own experience of compression and expansion, as her narrator moves from a closeted existence to one of […]
A thoughtful review of Danielle Vogel’s THE WAY A LINE HALLUCINATES ITS OWN LINEARITY
Date: December 14, 2020
Author/Editor/Poet Rob Mclennan in his blog, reviews Danielle Vogel’s collection THE WAY A LINE HALLUCINATES ITS OWN LINEARITY. The author of Between Grammars (Noemi Press, 2015) and Edges & Fray (Wesleyan University Press, 2019) […]
New Review of SUITOR by The Georgia Review!
Date: December 10, 2020
We are all, in this pandemic, a living elegy; there are loves, possibilities, selves, ways of life that are dead, a mobile mortality poets have always known and used their […]
#Throwback review of Gaylord Brewer’s WORSHIP THE PIG!
Date: December 2, 2020
It’s difficult for me to find comparisons to these poems. There are qualities that bring to mind Milosz’s humble prophesies or the earthy divinities of Robert Bly. Some of Brewer’s […]
WAVE IF YOU CAN SEE ME, Susan Ludvigson’s poetry collection reviewed by ZYZZYVA
Date: November 30, 2020
Ludvigson’s poems are quiet and linguistically unadorned, a testament to the starkness of bereavement. Despite the simplicity of her language, Ludvigson dedicates many of her poems to the careful description […]
THE WILDERNESS featured in Green Mountains Review
Date: November 30, 2020
Maurya Simon’s The Wilderness: New and Selected Poems 1980-2016 (Red Hen Press 2018, 218 pages) represents a life of questioning and perception, whether the scene is a backyard or a street in […]
Alaskan Blog 49 Writers sheds light on EVERY ATOM by Erin Coughlin Hollowell
Date: November 18, 2020
Reading Erin Coughlin Hollowell’s Every Atom, a book of poems about her aging mother, reminds me of my grandmother’s history. Like Gracie, Hollowell was her mother’s youngest, born when her […]
Chelsea Catherine’s SUMMER OF THE CICADAS given praise in review from Amos Lassen!
Date: November 4, 2020
There are some books that become more than just reads, rather reading them becomes an experience. That is just how I felt with “Summer of the Cicadas”.
Thoughtful input of Jennifer Risher’s WE NEED TO TALK: A MEMOIR ABOUT WEALTH from Washington Independent Review of Books
Date: October 28, 2020
Before delving into her own experience, however, Risher introduces the topic of wealth by depicting the expectations, gratitude, and worries that come with striking it rich. But hers is not […]