A Conversation with Verónica Reyes on Bordered Lives and Poetry
Date: February 25, 2014
Read Veronica's in-depth interview at Primera Taza
News & Reviews
News:
Kelly Davio’s Burn This House a Julie Suk Award Finalist
Date: February 20, 2014
Kelly Davio's latest poetry book, Burn This House, has been named a 2013 Julie Suk Award Finalist for Best Poetry Book. The award, presented by Jacar Press, is award to […]
Eva Saulitis Receives the Governor’s Award
Date: January 27, 2014
Poet Eva Saulitis, who hails from Homer, Alaska, received the Governor's Award for the Humanities at a ceremony on January 30 at the Juneau Arts and Culture Center. She was […]
Kim Dower Featured on American Life in Poetry
Date: January 13, 2014
Kim Dower's poem "Bottled Water," from her book Slice of Moon, was featured on American Life in Poetry. The site is a project for newspapers helmed by Ted Kooser, Poet […]
Andrew Lam Interviewed by Asian Fortune News
Date: January 8, 2014
Journalist Jenny Chen for Asian Fortune News sat down with Red Hen author Andrew Lam to discuss his short story collection Birds of Paradise. In the interview, Lam discusses an array […]
Tess Taylor Interviewed by The Poetry Foundation
Date: January 8, 2014
In an interview with The Poetry Foundation's Stacey Lynn Brown, Tess Taylor discusses her collection of poetry, The Forage House, and her connection to her famous ancestor, Thomas Jefferson. Taylor […]
Daniel Olivas Tweets the Praises of Verónica Reyes
Date: January 8, 2014
Chicano author and journalist, Daniel Olivas, heaped praise upon Verónica Reyes' poetry collection Chopper! Chopper! on Twitter, proclaiming it to be "powerful, heartbreaking, hopeful." View Olivas' tweet
Poetry as Visual Art – The Poetry Foundation Features Douglas Kearney
Date: January 8, 2014
Poetic imagery does not manifest itself merely in words. What about the visuals created when a poem is on the page? The editors at the Poetry Foundation refer to this […]
Douglas Kearney’s Poetry Readings Featured on The Poetry Foundation
Date: January 8, 2014
At first glance, Douglas Kearney's poems in his collection, Patter, consist of words clustered in impossible ways on the page, leaving the reader to wonder how they are read. Now, […]
Our 19th Anniversary Celebration
Date: November 22, 2013
This month we hosted our annual anniversary luncheon celebrating 19 years of success. "Its (Red Hen's) success shows there is still an unquenchable thirst for exceptional literature in Pasadena and […]
Reviews:
Adam Kirsch’s THE DISCARDED LIFE reviewed in Literary Matters!
Date: November 30, 2022
The evolution of blank verse from Milton to Wordsworth, via Cowper, was not solely a change in diction and subject matter. Even as classical and biblical themes were displaced by […]
David Mason’s PACIFIC LIGHT Reviewed in LA Review of Books!
Date: November 21, 2022
A POET KNOWN for his narratives, like Ludlow, the acclaimed historical-novel-in-verse turned opera, David Mason curates the archipelago of intensely satisfying lyric poems in Pacific Light with the skill of a consummate storyteller. […]
The Friday Poem recommends Ron Koertge’s I DREAMED I WAS EMILY DICKINSON’S BOYFRIEND
Date: November 21, 2022
Koertge inhabits – and endows – his various subjects with insight and humour, dealing out poems in the voices of car crash dummies, Aphrodite, Mickey Mouse, Little Red Riding Hood, […]
David Mas Masumoto and Patricia Wakida’s SECRET HARVESTS Receives a Starred Kirkus Review!
Date: November 17, 2022
A simultaneously elegant and sharp-edged exploration of the hidden past. “I am haunted by gaps in family memories, nebulous responses and twisted behavior that must be examined within the context […]
Pamela Uschuk’s REFUGEE Earns a Kirkus Star!
Date: November 17, 2022
A mordantly tender triumph rich with natural imagery. Uschuk’s poetry collection calls out authoritarianism and social injustice. This moving set of poems offer messages of hope as it addresses timely […]
David Mas Masumoto and Patricia Wakida’s SECRET HARVESTS reviewed in Foreword Reviews!
Date: November 16, 2022
“Paired with artist Patricia Wakida’s haunting illustrations, the book’s rich, lyrical language evokes both cultural eloquence and California’s seasonal beauty. Poignant and reflective, Secret Harvests is a family saga of […]
PEN America Interviews John Weir, Author of YOUR NOSTALGIA IS KILLING ME!
Date: November 14, 2022
The title of your book Your Nostalgia is Killing Me, seems to be an ironic one. The protagonist’s nostalgia is seemingly running havoc on his own life. He can’t escape revisiting the past and […]
TENDER GRAVITY by Marybeth Holleman Reviewed in the Colorado Review!
Date: November 9, 2022
Though Marybeth Holleman is the author of several nonfiction books centering around environmental issues and her chosen home of Alaska, tender gravity is her debut collection of poetry. Its title is drawn […]
Warped Perspective recommends Peter Ulrich’s Drumming with Dead Can Dance & Parallel Adventures
Date: November 9, 2022
Dead Can Dance have long been a deeply resonant, exploratory presence on the outskirts of alternative music. Never comfortably existing in one genre or another – no surprises there, given […]
EcoTheo Collective reviews Khalisa Rae’s GHOST IN A BLACK GIRL’S THROAT!
Date: November 2, 2022
The American ghost, in Khalisa Rae’s narrative, is a chimera—a multi formed, multi-faceted reflection and mirror of society, of survival, and suspense, of waiting to see what the future will […]