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!
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
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 […]
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
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: June 3, 2020
Bound by ambition and a sense of adventure, Claire and Shep Durant journey to the Andaman Islands, a remote part of colonial India, in 1936. They dive deep into their […]
Date: June 3, 2020
ON THE FRONT COVER of Aimee Liu’s Glorious Boy there is a palm-lined cove under a twilight sky. Unspoiled by modernity, this looks like island escapism, with no indication this is a […]
Date: June 3, 2020
Channeling some past classics also skeptical of the colonial enterprise, Glorious Boy stands out from the crowded shelves of World War II literature by immersing the reader in one of the remoter […]
Date: June 3, 2020
Liu’s eponymous “glorious boy” exists at the intersection of families, communities, countries, cultures—and, for a while, life and death. His spirited, adventurous parents—Shep, a British doctor obsessed with the healing […]
Date: June 3, 2020
A newly released novel, “Her Sister’s Tattoo” by Ellen Meeropol, was brought to my attention and it struck a soft spot I thought was long buried. Like so many of you, as […]
Date: June 3, 2020
Sometimes, you can judge a book by its cover. Consider the cover image for Deborah A. Lott’s memoir Don’t Go Crazy Without Me (Red Hen Press): a chubby adult male dressed in blue velvet […]
Date: June 3, 2020
Subduction is most of all a story of displacement and dislocation: for Claudia, whose Latina heritage lies over a border and whose sense of family lies beyond the betrayal that […]
Date: June 3, 2020
What happens when the world as you know it changes course? When your seemingly rock-solid life suddenly becomes thin and porous? Such is the case for Claudia, a Latinx anthropologist based […]
Date: June 3, 2020
VERDICT Gorgeously, toughly written, this book dares to be open-ended yet leaves readers with a satisfying sense of how life really unfolds. Cultural clash matters here, but personal differences and […]
Date: June 3, 2020
In the gray autumn of Seattle, Claudia, an anthropology professor, is on edge. Her marriage is over after she found out her husband and sister were having an affair. She’s […]
