Rebecca O’Conner’s LIFT featured in Heyday Anthology
Date: March 16, 2020
The fall 2009 Heyday Anthology features an excerpt from Rebecca O’Conner’s, LIFT.
News & Reviews
News:
Alphabet Conspiracy featured on The Rumpus
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 […]
Red Hen on the Radio: A Double Feature
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 […]
Amazon top 100 African American Titles–Cooling Board: A Long Playing Poem
Date: March 16, 2020
Cooling Board: A Long Playing Poem by Mitchell L. Douglas is on the Amazon.com list for top 100 African American Titles. Pick up your copy today! At a time when most […]
National Short Story Month: The Discount
Date: March 16, 2020
National Poetry Month has come and gone, as it does every year. It’s a fairly new phenomenon, the National [Art Form] Month; National Poetry Month only dates from the mid […]
Johanna Stoberock’s PIGS included in Buzzfeeds “15 Small Press Books To Kick Off Your 2020 Reading Season”!
Date: January 13, 2020
Here are 15 recent and upcoming books from small presses that span everything from fantasy and crime fiction to memoir and literary short stories.
The Seattle Review announces that PIGS author Johanna Stoberock wins LaSalle Storyteller Award!
Date: December 3, 2019
Artist Trust has announced that Walla Walla author Johanna Stoberock is this year’s recipient of the LaSalle Storyteller Award. The LaSalle Award, which gives $10,000 to a Washington state storyteller with no […]
Union Bulletin shares that PIGS author Johanna Stoberock is the 2019 LaSalle Storyteller Award recipient!
Date: December 2, 2019
Artist Trust today named Whitman College Senior Adjunct Assistant Professor of English and General Studies Johanna Stoberock as its 2019 LaSalle Storyteller Award recipient. The 2019 award recognizes an outstanding literary artist working in […]
Kirkus Reviews reports on Johanna Stoberock’s PIGS being on the Tournament of Books Longlist!
Date: November 22, 2019
The Morning News has unveiled the longlist for their 2020 Tournament of Books, which is almost certainly the only literary competition in the country where the winner receives livestock as a prize. Sixty-two […]
The Wesleyan Connection includes PIGS author Johanna Stoberock in their “You Just Haveto Read This…” list!
Date: November 18, 2019
In the sixth of this continuing series, Sara McCrea ’21, a College of Letters major from Boulder, Colo., reviews alumni books and offers a selection for those in search of knowledge, insight, […]
Reviews:
Doris Lynch reviews The Forage House
Date: June 14, 2013
Doris Lynch discusses her take on Tess Taylor's The Forage House. “This first collection reveals a poet with a fully formed voice and involving subject matter…the genealogy she presents provides […]
Linda Rodriguez Writes take on Speaking Wiri Wiri
Date: June 13, 2013
Linda Rodriguez Writes applauds Vera's new work, Speaking Wiri Wiri: “Full of longing and bittersweet humor, these poems are lyrical, narrative, poignant, and always powerful…Vera has given us a true […]
BOOM reviews Birds of Paradise Lost
Date: June 13, 2013
Boom Journal outlines the merits of Lam's collection of short stories: "His own voice is a true gift to California and the world . Lams fiction weaves the pitch-perfect perceptiveness of […]
Gone & Gone featured on Rain Taxi
Date: May 31, 2013
Ralph Pennel from Rain Taxi Review of Books praises Rodney Wittwer's Gone & Gone.- "Gone & Gone both transports and transforms. It forces us to take pause from our every […]
Washington Independent reviews Speaking Wiri Wiri
Date: May 31, 2013
Grace Cavalieri from the Washington Independent calls Dan Vera's Speaking Wiri Wiri "an exegesis on language and culture."- "Vera writes so we know how it was for him, and that […]
Hinged praises The Palace of Contemplating Departure
Date: May 17, 2013
Garrett Bryant from Hinged says that the poems from Brynn Saito's The Palace of Contemplating Departure sing.- "Saito’s ferocious and confident voice guides the reader through both an external journey […]
Synchronized Chaos is impressed with All of You on the Good Earth
Date: May 17, 2013
Christopher Bernard from Synchronized Chaos says that the poems found in Ernest Hilbert's All of You on the Good Earth are "some of the most elegant poems in American literature […]
Donna Miscolta applauds Burn This House
Date: May 9, 2013
Donna Miscolta calls Kelly Davio's Burn This House "blisteringly good poetry".- "In Burn this House (Red Hen Press), Kelly Davio explores relationships—how they falter or erode, how time distorts the […]
Shelf Awareness features Burn This House
Date: May 9, 2013
Thuy Dinh from Shelf Awareness praises Burn This House by Kelly Davio.- "Kelly Davio's debut poetry collection, Burn This House, smolders with doubt and misdirection. Cosmic yet controlled, her poetry […]
Lambda Literary Review loves A Wild Surmise
Date: May 1, 2013
ArielleYarwood from Lambda Literary Review calls Eloise Klein Healy's A Wild Surmise: New & Selected Poems & Recordings "a book that won’t easily be shaken from your mind."- "How to […]