Date: June 5, 2017
Red Hen Press author Ellen Meeropol, released an essay titled Being My Dad's Many Daughters which can be found in Elayne Clift's new book Take Care: Tales, Tips and Love […]
Date: June 3, 2017
Pasadena Now covered the Pasadena Museum of California Art 's 15th anniversary events, which included a poetry reading by Red Hen Press authors William Archila, Douglas Manuel and Lisa C. […]
Date: May 31, 2017
In an interview with 90.3 kazu, Red Hen Press poet Tess Taylor reflects on the work of fellow poet Seamus Hearney and how he was able to write his poetry […]
Date: March 14, 2017
Red Hen Press is thrilled to announce the acceptance of a new novel: Thuy Da Lams gripping debut, Fire Summer, a book reminiscent of works by Viet Thanh Nguyen, Haruki […]
Date: January 24, 2017
CAKE TIME [STARRED REVIEW!] Author: Siel Ju Review Issue Date: February 1, 2017 Online Publish Date: January 23, 2017 Publisher:Red Hen Press Pages: 192 Price ( Paperback ): $15.95 Publication […]
Date: January 4, 2017
Pasadena, CA – National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Jane Chu has approved more than $30 million in grants as part of the NEA's first major funding announcement for fiscal […]
Date: November 15, 2016
52 Men by Louise Wareham Leonard was published August 15th, 2015. We love this book at Red Hen, we love women with power in their fingertips. We are thrilled to […]
Date: November 2, 2016
With featured readings by acclaimed poets Jill Bialosky, Rita Dove, and Alan Lightman, inspiring performances by two of our very own Writing in the Schools students, and a wealth of […]
Date: October 16, 2016
By Steve Wasserman (Published in The Nation, Oct. 16, 2016) A week before he died, I went to say farewell to Tom Hayden. I’d known him ever since we […]
Date: July 29, 2016
We are pleased to announce that effective August 27, 2016, Red Hen Press will begin US and Canadian distribution through Ingram Publisher Services (IPS). With over twenty years of excellence […]
Date: April 22, 2009
Sholeh Wolpe's Rooftops of Tehran is that truly rare event: an important book of poetry. Brushing against the grain of Persian-Islamic culture, she sings a deep affection for what she […]
Date: April 19, 2009
Perhaps there is no present, and existence is built of the alterable past moving into the alterable future, and then through the opaque door of death. Or perhaps there is […]
Date: April 18, 2009
http://edwardbyrne.blogspot.com/2007/04/leslie-heywood-proving-grounds.htmlMONDAY, APRIL 2, 2007Leslie Heywood: THE PROVING GROUNDSLeafing through the work in Leslie Heywood's premiere book of poetry, The Proving Grounds, one quickly becomes accustomed to uncovering sometimes uncomfortable and […]
Date: April 16, 2009
"In the debut collection from Kentucky poet Nickole Brown, readers experience the pleasures of poetry "the illuminated moment reverberating" as well as the pleasures of the novel–the narrative unfurling, driven […]
Date: April 16, 2009
"If you feel that high emotion and unalienated confession is not art, as Slavoj Zizek might assert that it cops to the System where the individual is valued for trying […]
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. […]
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 […]
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.' […]
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 […]
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 […]
