Red Hen Press at Downtown LA
Date: August 17, 2015
Join Red Hen Press for their new special reading series, Fluid. Events will take place in Downtown LA and the first installment of this series will be at The Edison […]
News & Reviews
News:
Percival Everett Named Guggenheim Fellow!
Date: July 30, 2015
Renowned Red Hen poet Percival Everett was recently named one of three Guggenheim Fellows for 2015!
Gary Dop interviewed by Midwest Gothic!
Date: June 1, 2015
Red Hen author, Gary Dop, shares with Midwest Gothic about his thoughts on his writing process, his new book book of poems (Father, Child, Water) and his connection to the […]
Red Hen author, Elissa Washuta, has a new book available on June 16!
Date: May 20, 2015
Elissa Washuta’s Starvation Mode: A Memoir of Food, Consumption, and Control, will be available on June 16. Washuta recounts her struggle for culinary control, and presents the guidelines she followed […]
Red Hen author Ellen Meeropol has an essay published in Cleaver Magazine!
Date: May 11, 2015
Red Hen author Ellen Meeropol wrote an essay for Cleaver Magazine, in which she discusses of writing varied perspectives and crossing boundaries in fiction in her novel, On Hurricane Island. […]
Douglas Kearney is a California Book Award Finalist!
Date: April 28, 2015
Yesterday, The Commonwealth Club announced the finalists of this year's California Book Awards, and we are delighted that Douglas Kearney's poetry collection, Patter, is a finalist for the poetry award! […]
Ellen Meeropol interviewed by Linda K. Sienkiewicz!
Date: April 7, 2015
Recently, Linda K. Sienkiewicz made a blog post in which she talked with Red Hen author Ellen Meeropol about Ellen's new novel, On Hurricane Island. The two discussed Ellen's writing […]
Kansas City Star lists William Trowbridge’s Put This On, Please as 2014 staff favorite!
Date: March 20, 2015
Recently, The Kansas City Star put out their list of 100 staff favorites from 2014 and Red Hen author William Trowbridge's Put This On, Please made the cut! The collection […]
Cynthia Hogue interviewed by Periodico de Poesia!
Date: March 11, 2015
Recently, Mexican poetry journal Periodico de Poesia conducted an interview with Red Hen author Cynthia Hogue in which they discussed, among other things, the importance of poetry's cultural work in […]
Poets & Writers showcases William Archila’s talk about immigrant life
Date: February 23, 2015
William Archila speaks with author Mariano Zaro about his early influences and how growing up as an immigrant in the United States has made an impact on his writing. Watch
Reviews:
Kirkus Reviews calls Lisa C. Krueger’s FLORIOGRAPHY CHILD “a poignant and bittersweet poetry collection about a mother’s devotion.”
Date: September 20, 2023
Krueger offers a memoir about caring for a sick child in poetry form. Krueger explores connections between flora, motherhood, and illness in this poetry collection. The title refers to the way […]
The New York Journal of Books calls Laila Halaby’s memoir, THE WEIGHT OF GHOSTS, “deeply affecting, lyrical and often profound.”
Date: September 13, 2023
Acclaimed novelist and poet Laila Halaby’s memoir, The Weight of Ghosts, documents her struggle to bear up after the devastating loss after her first-born son, Raad, 21, was killed on the […]
Soapberry Review features Pete Hsu’s IF I WERE THE OCEAN, I’D CARRY YOU HOME!
Date: September 6, 2023
What does it mean to heal your inner child? To overcome past trauma? To find the puzzle piece that had been lost years ago, or in another life? In a […]
The Jewish Book Council reviews Kim Dower’s I WORE THIS DRESS TODAY FOR YOU, MOM
Date: September 6, 2023
Many American Jews are unaffiliated with Judaism. Some do not observe Jewish rituals in any regular way; others might not worship at all. And yet Jewishness still pervades their lives: […]
The Bite and the Charm: A Review of Katharine Coles’ GHOST APPLES by Good River Review
Date: September 5, 2023
Ghost Apples, the ninth collection of poems by University of Utah distinguished professor Katharine Coles, offers not only nature-based poems that stir and satiate hunger, but also serrated verse that […]
The Markaz Review calls Laila Halaby’s memoir THE WEIGHT OF GHOSTS “fearlessly authentic,” “vulnerable,” and “haunting.”
Date: September 5, 2023
“My story has never been mine to tell,” says novelist, poet, and creative writing teacher Laila Halaby in her memoir, The Weight of Ghosts. “It is squished between other people’s tall […]
Madeleine Nakamura receives a five star review of “Cursebreakers” from AuthorLink.com
Date: August 29, 2023
Author Madeleine Nakamura’s science fiction thriller “Cursebreakers,” embarks on a “mind bending” battle between magicians, witches, medical professionals and the military in the year 3016. All of the drama in this […]
Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network reviews Phuong T. Vuong’s A PLUCKED ZITHER!
Date: August 17, 2023
A Plucked Zither is Phuong T. Vuong’s sophomore poetry collection. Vuong’s poems draw upon her experience as a 1.5 generation Vietnamese American raised in Oakland, California, and echo the familiar themes […]
Madeleine Nakamura’s CURSEBREAKERS receives STARRED Book Review from Independent Book Review!
Date: August 15, 2023
CURSEBREAKERS by Madeleine Nakamura is a novel as electric as the lightning-bolt magic its protagonist wields, filled with curses, destruction, and piercing heartache. Sometimes vicious and violent; all times spectacular […]
Phuong T. Vuong’s A PLUCKED ZITHER receives stellar review on Poetry Foundation!
Date: August 10, 2023
“Poems like these are as two-sided as Vuong’s title instrument: a zither plucked and plucked, played upon and snatched away. For every touch of warmth and musicality, she admits something […]