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:
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 […]
David Mason’s PACIFIC LIGHT reviewed in the Australian Book Review!
Date: October 31, 2022
Poet, essayist, and librettist David Mason grew up in Washington State, worked for many years in Colorado (where he became the state’s poet laureate) and a couple of years ago […]
Ron Koertge’s I DREAMED I WAS EMILY DICKINSON’S BOYFRIEND on Shelf Awareness’ Best Book List!
Date: October 20, 2022
Somewhere in the history of literature, the world decided that poetry was “serious.” But with I Dreamed I Was Emily Dickinson’s Boyfriendas evidence, poet Ron Koertge (Sex World; Now Playing: Stoner & […]
IF I WERE THE OCEAN, I’D CARRY YOU HOME Featured in Shelf Unbound
Date: October 17, 2022
Full of warmth, terror, and underhanded humor, If I Were the Ocean, I’d Carry You Home, Pete Hsu’s debut story collection, captures the essences of surviving in a life set […]
Independent Book Review Reviews COFFEE, SHOPPING, MURDER, LOVE by Carlos Allende!
Date: October 17, 2022
Coffee, Shopping, Murder, Love is Carlos Allende’s Quill Prize-winning novel from Red Hen Press. Readers will embark on a riotous, ribald, and somehow still laughter-inducing ride, from a terrible first date […]
Adam Kirsch’s THE DISCARDED LIFE reviewed in latest edition of The New York Review of Books
Date: October 3, 2022
“Hell,” wrote Percy Shelley in 1819, “is a city much like London.” A hundred and twenty years later Bertolt Brecht, who fled the Nazis for Santa Monica, volunteered a different […]