Date: November 19, 2024
“In the beautifully rendered book of poems, My Infinity by Didi Jackson, the speaker’s voice is meditative, pensive, and warm. Tonally, these poems represent that time of day which is […]
Date: November 19, 2024
Returning to the fabular tone of Zabelle, her popular first novel, Kricorian conjures up the lost worlds and intergenerational traumas that haunt a family in permanent exile. Leavened with humor and […]
Date: November 19, 2024
For our fifth episode of S3 of There She Goes, we’re proud to partner with VONA Traveling While BIPOC, the nation’s first writing workshop for travelers of color. Adriana is […]
Date: November 14, 2024
When Esinam Bediako submitted the manuscript for her debut novel, “Blood on the Brain,” for consideration for the Ann Petry Award, she didn’t think she’d be in the running for the […]
Date: November 14, 2024
Wa-zha’-zhe, name of the Osage tribe . . . who came from the stars.—“The Osage and the Invisible World: From the Works of Francis LaFlesche” […]
Date: November 5, 2024
In his third poetry collection from Red Hen Press, Kim Stafford gathers poems that sing with empathy, humor, witness, and story. Poems in this book have been set to music, […]
Date: October 31, 2024
In “Witness,” you allude to the martyr St. Priscilla. Other poems take up women mystics like Hilma af Klint and the other members of De Fem, who practiced mysticism. The […]
Date: October 31, 2024
I have a little something special to add to the newsletter today! A brief interview with Aliah Wright, author of the recently published Now You Owe Me from Red Hen Press. 1. What […]
Date: October 22, 2024
I’ve been reading from outside of Phoenix, where there have been over 120 days of 100 degree temperatures as summer comes to a close. With Hurricane Helene devastating the Southeast […]
Date: October 10, 2024
Today I talked to Esinam Bediako about here novel Blood on the Brain (Red Hen Press, 2024). When Akosua, a 24-year-old grad student in New York, falls and bangs her head, she has too […]
Date: December 8, 2009
Among the 19 authors Ellis interviewed for this book, there are two points of consensus. Almost all of the interviewees call revision the most essential element of successful writing, and […]
Date: November 28, 2009
“Indeed, as Timothy Green claims in Hiking Alone, perhaps all we ever want is a little darkness to climb out of. In American Fractal, he provides the dark, the light, […]
Date: November 28, 2009
Opening Timothy Green’s first full-length collection is like entering a fun house and stepping into the room where distorted mirrors reflect back into themselves ad infinitum. The concept of the […]
Date: November 18, 2009
Illuminating Fiction: Today's Best Writers of Fiction Sherry Ellis. Red Hen (Chicago Distribution Center, dist.), $19.95 paper (240p) ISBN 978-1-59709-068-1Among the 19 authors Ellis interviewed for this book, there are […]
Date: October 8, 2009
By John Sheirer (Connecticut) – See all my reviewsReviewed for Nights and Weekends by John Sheirer The nameless young girl at the center of Diane Payne's wonderful Burning Tulips is […]
Date: September 24, 2009
Erinn Batykefer’s award-winning debut collection given a 4 1/2 star review on Library Thing: “The mark of excellent poetry is that it leads you to places you could never find […]
Date: September 9, 2009
Ching-In Chen’s debut collection of poems is a sprawling and ambitious work …. I found myself admiring the book for being so satisfyingly messy, for allowing itself to sprawl and […]
Date: July 4, 2009
A lot of the most exciting prose published in the last couple years is enlivened by the introduction of non-English elements. The Times Book Review made note of the way […]
Date: June 22, 2009
6 + 1: Interview with Timothy Green I introduce a new feature, the "6 + 1" interview. I ask my guests six questions, and they get to ask me one […]
Date: June 22, 2009
Memory provides the raw material for the stories we tell about ourselves. Or maybe memories are fictions themselves, vague impressions of feelings combined with fleeting shards of images woven together […]
