Two Poems by Abi Pollokoff in Seattle Met
Date: July 24, 2025
particular reminders when prayers for the body aren’t enough when dusty purple fruits breathe inthe sunsets & smog of their cityscapes: […]
News & Reviews
News:
The Verse Daily Feature of DARK SUITE FOR MY COUNTRY by April Ossmann!
Date: July 22, 2025
Dark Suite for My Country I. Dark as an overcast night,licorice, ink, ravens, outer space.Let me see the beautyin crows mowing silencelike hundred rusty tractors,or a crowd […]
Meet Wisconsin’s Newest Poet Laureate Brenda Cárdenas: Milwaukee Magazine
Date: July 17, 2025
As Wisconsin’s newest poet laureate, Brenda Cárdenas is traveling around the state with a mission: inspiring creativity through ekphrastic poetry. This form of poetry invites people to pen a creative response to […]
Rebecca Chase Featured on Lit Hub: A Daughter’s Journey to Japan In Search of Closure
Date: July 16, 2025
In the window seat in economy class, I turn my face to the glass so the woman next to me can pretend she doesn’t notice that I’m crying. She’s sitting […]
An Episode with Kim Dower on Writer to Writer KRBX Radio Boise
Date: July 8, 2025
Writer to Writer, a monthly radio show airs on the first Sunday of each month on Radio Boise’s Stray Theater. The show is hosted by Rebecca Evans and Ken Rodgers. […]
Thank you, Massachusetts Review, for this great shout out for Elise Paschen’s latest collection!
Date: July 8, 2025
Elise Paschen’s latest collection is Blood Wolf Moon, our from Red Hen. Her poem “Heritage” appeared in our A GATHERING OF NATIVE VOICES issue back in 2020…
April Ossmann’s WE Featured in The Washington Post’s Newsletter
Date: July 7, 2025
April Ossmann, a former executive director of Alice James Books, has published a timely collection simply and optimistically called “We.” It’s a stirring effort to heal America’s deadly political conflicts with […]
The Orange County Register’s 33 New Books You’ll Want To Read This Summer From Independent Publishers: ANGEL EYE by Madeleine Nakamura
Date: July 7, 2025
It’s the perfect time of the year to celebrate our independents. By that, we mean independent presses — the small publishers powered by literary true believers, committed to putting out curated works that […]
ANGEL EYE by Madeleine Nakamura Featured in Book Riot’s List of The 6 Best Dark Academia Books for Romance Readers
Date: July 1, 2025
Dark academia and romance is a genre mash-up that’s meant to be. The heightened suspense gives characters a reason to rely on each other and form close bonds… if they […]
Peter Ulrich Recalls the First European Tour of Dead Can Dance with The Quietus
Date: June 30, 2025
In an exclusive extract from his book, Drumming with Dead Can Dance: and Parallel Adventures, former Dead Can Dance drummer Peter Ulrich looks back at an almost fateful mishap in […]
Reviews:
Review of how to get over by t’ai freedom ford
Date: March 16, 2020
“how to get over is an instruction manual for the hopeless navigating uncomfortable personal spaces where the need to transform begins.” HOW TO GET OVER has been reviewed by The Blueshift […]
Elizabeth Robinson reviews Bone Light
Date: March 16, 2020
Bone Light Orlando White. Red Hen (CDC, dist.) $15.95 (64p) ISBN 978-1-59709-135-0 Orlando White’s Bone Light recreates poetry from the molecular level. His vision presents language letter by letter: as […]
Midwest Book Review Recommends Cairn
Date: March 16, 2020
Midwest Book Review provided a short review of Peggy Shumaker’s latest work Cairn: New and Selected. A collection of poems which encompass Peggy’s experiences in Alaska and Arizona, Midwest Book Review writes that […]
The Florida Review praises IN JUNE THE LABYRINTH
Date: March 16, 2020
The fantastic Florida Review gave a rave review of Cynthia Hogue’s In June the Labyrinth, calling it “a stunning and unforgettable book.” Thanks Florida Review!
Gregory Orr reviews Avocations
Date: March 16, 2020
Avocations Sam Hamill. Red Hen (CDC, dist.), $19.95 (248p) ISBN 978-1-59709-086-5 Who can match him for range, passion, and scholarship? What aspect of poetry from Zen aesthetics to political engagement […]
The Yellow Door” is a powerful indictment and a celebration for poet
Date: March 16, 2020
Poet, Michael Dennis, reviewed Amy Uyematsu’s The Yellow Door on his blog recently. For his daily book of poetry, he focused on how The Yellow Door shares lessons that we need to remember and […]
Philip Metres at Behind The Lines: Poetry, War, & Peacemaking
Date: March 16, 2020
“The poems have a sardonic, lacerating edge, in the mode of the best confessional poems which admit to the political (Lowell, Plath, Wojahn, etc.).”
Food Tank features EAT LESS WATER
Date: March 16, 2020
Florencia Ramirez’s Eat Less Water was listed as one of the 22 Books for Winter 2018 by Food Tank, an innovative team focused on rethinking the food system and alleviating world hunger. Eva Perroni […]
Line Assembly marvels at Lillian-Yvonne Bertram and But a Storm is Blowing From Paradise
Date: March 16, 2020
Line Assembly applauds But a Storm Is Blowing From a Paradise.- But a Storm Is Blowing From a Paradise “explodes with dream and bear and body and city and money and no-money and […]
Michael Turner’s review on Growler
Date: March 16, 2020
“Many of Green’s speakers seem to desire to disappear, to re-work the equation for subtraction. It is the frustration caused by a world that fails to allow disappearance which provides […]