Date: April 3, 2014
Brynn Saito's The Palace of Contemplating Departure has been nominated for the Northern California Book Award in Poetry as one of the best works by a Nor Cal author. The […]
Date: April 3, 2014
Andrew Lam's debut novel Birds of Paradise Lost is a finalist in the 83rd Annual California Book Awards. His book is one of two finalists in the First Fiction category. […]
Date: April 2, 2014
Veronica Reyes sat down with El Paseo Times and gave some insight into her artisitc process and her new book of poetry. "'Poetry just comes out of you, those moments […]
Date: April 2, 2014
Ms. Magazine is celebrating National Poetry Month by announcing and presenting five different feminist unpublished poems. The first is Veronica Reyes's "The Hawk." You can read Ms. Blog's feature and […]
Date: April 2, 2014
Artsmith announced Peggy Shumaker as their Artist of the Year! This honor is given to an artist who "exemplifies mastery in her or his field and generosity to others." Congratulations […]
Date: March 5, 2014
Washington Independent Review of Books celebrates Red Hen's 20th anniversary with a feature: "Since its creation two decades ago, the press' dual focus on building a literary niche and forging […]
Date: February 25, 2014
Read Veronica's in-depth interview at Primera Taza
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Date: September 12, 2013
In the most recent issue of Glint Literary Journal Brenda Mann Hammack lauds Nicelle Davis' Becoming Judas.- "Davis’ book does not wallow in masochism or confessionalism. Instead, Becoming Judas comes […]
Date: September 6, 2013
The Baton Rouge Advocate's Andrew Burstein comments on the southern ancestry in the poems of Tess Taylor's The Forage House.- "Taylor intuits history through her engagement with pieces and particles […]
Date: September 6, 2013
Theresé Samson Wenham from NewPages commends Ernest Hilbert on his "honesty of character" and the "resonance of his language" in the poems of All of You on the Good Earth.- […]
Date: September 6, 2013
Julia Ann Charpentier from ForeWord Reviews is impressed with John Van Kirk's Song for Chance.- "Van Kirk depicts the world of an aging rock star by alternating between soft reminiscence […]
Date: August 30, 2013
Carmela Ciuraru from the San Francisco Chronicle calls Tess Taylor's The Forage House a "stunning debut collection."- "The most fascinating biographical fact about Taylor is not that she can trace […]
Date: August 30, 2013
Marguerite Nguyen applauds the way Andrew Lam "undertakes the tricky task of interweaving a journalistic eye for detail with imagined dialogues and psychic journeys" in her review of Birds of […]
Date: August 30, 2013
Anne Yale from Voice in the Wilderness admits that she "could not put down" Nicelle Davis' Becoming Judas.- "A fascinating foray into iconographic studies, Becoming Judas examines, interprets, questions, challenges, […]
Date: August 21, 2013
Camille Guillot from Oxford American praises the "curated mood of a small museum" present in Tess Taylor's The Forage House.- "Every so often there is a book of poetry that […]
Date: August 21, 2013
Anna Challet from Tikkun discusses the stories of Andrew Lam's Birds of Paradise Lost.- "…each story is a world unto itself. Lam’s characters are haunted by what they have lost, […]
Date: August 21, 2013
Sandy Longhorn from Atticus Review praises the language and layers of meaning found in the poems of Carolyn Guinzio's Spoke & Dark.– "Spoke & Dark requires much of the reader, […]
