Jessy Randall’s Poem Hits the Streets in Sydney, Australia
Date: June 25, 2013
Randall's poetry is being featured on street-cleaning trucks as part of the Sydney Writer's Festival. To read more, click
News & Reviews
News:
KTEP Interviews Dan Vera
Date: June 1, 2013
Daniel Chacón from KTEP's "Words on a Wire" chats with Dan Vera about growing up as a Cuban-American in south Texas and the meaning of "wiri wiri." To listen to […]
Brynn Saito interviewed on KKUP
Date: May 31, 2013
J.P. Dancing Bear, host of the Out of Our Minds radio show on KKUP, talks with Brynn Saito. To listen to the interview, click
Writers @ Work interviews Katharine Coles
Date: May 12, 2013
Katharine Coles chats with Writers @ Work about her writing process and what inspires her work. To read the full interview, click
Kate Gale talks to Robert Sward for Poetry Flash
Date: April 24, 2013
Kate and Robert discuss small presses, writing, and the "place of madness . . . where all good writing starts," Red Hen's name, and Red Hen's future. To read the […]
Ernest Hilbert interviewed on WHYY Radio
Date: April 16, 2013
Ernest Hilbert chats with WHYY Radio about his poetic background and his newly released All of You on the Good Earth. To listen to the interview, click
Toucan Nest featured on Library Journal
Date: April 15, 2013
Libary Journal names Toucan Nest one of the "30 new books that will help you rediscover poetry". To read the full article, click
KSEE interviews Brynn Saito
Date: April 9, 2013
KSEE24 News features an interview with Brynn Saito. To watch the full interview, click
Eloise Klein Healy is Interviewed by Cynthia Fox on KLOS
Date: April 4, 2013
This past Sunday, Cynthia Fox spoke with Eloise for Spotlight on the Community on 95.5 KLOS. Eloise reads two poems and even divulges that she sidles up to people in […]
Hothouse Blog features an interview with Andrew Lam
Date: April 3, 2013
Karin C. Davidson from Hothouse Blog sat down to talk with Andrew Lam for a two-part interview. To read the first installment of this interview, click
Reviews:
Ely Shipley, Quarterly West
Date: April 16, 2009
"Brown's awareness of the book's form, its how in addition to its what, allows for these poems' rich complexities. The order not only forms a linear narrative, but layers experience. […]
Julie Enszer, Lambda Book Report
Date: April 16, 2009
"The strength of Sister is in the details, some of which are constructed through Brown's diction, which is gently infused with a southern dialect but resists caricature. She writes of […]
Melanie Jordan, Southern Indiana Review
Date: April 16, 2009
"To write of one's own conception, gestation, birth"to write convincingly of unknowable-yet-familiar moments: that is the power of poetry and the power of Nickole Brown's debut, Sister, a self-styled "novel-in-poems.' […]
American Poet: The Journal of The Academy of American Poets
Date: April 16, 2009
"Nickole Brown's poems marry an enthralling and tormented narrative with woven, specific lyricism to create a layered progression through a difficult past. Brown has immediate access to how the situations […]
Cate Marvin, Ploughshares
Date: April 16, 2009
"Using umbilicus as guide rail, the speaker of Nickole Brown's Sister–an unflinching and deeply intelligent first book–undertakes a hair-lifting expedition back to her childhood so as to return herself to […]
Erica Wright, ForeWord Magazine
Date: April 16, 2009
"It would be easy to say that this collection is an indictment, but there is nothing easy about these poems. They are each skillfully wrought pieces about impossible subjects. . […]
Publishers Weekly, August 2007
Date: April 16, 2009
"Brown's forthright debut opens with an intimate address to a sister: "I tell you this story because it is / the story we need / to believe our offal is […]
Time Out London, April 24, 2008
Date: April 14, 2009
Time Out LondonMotel Girl (Red Hen Press) is the debut collection of New York writer Greg Sanders. Like many debut collections it draws material from a decade of writing, going […]
Michael Swagner reviews Earthquake I.D.
Date: April 13, 2009
John Domini Earthquake I.D. Red Hen (CDC, dist.) $20.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-59709-076-6Des Moines author John Domini has won awards from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Meridian Editors […]
Naomi Shihab Nye reviews Double Moon
Date: April 13, 2009
Margo Klass and Frank Soos Double Moon. Red Hen (CDC, dist.) $19.95 (80p) ISBN 978-1-59709-141-1This is a stunning book and I want to live in it. Double Moon — one […]