Process and Community: An Interview with Elise Paschen in Fifth Wednesday Journal
Date: April 13, 2012
Fifth Wednesday Journal interviews Elise Paschen about poetry, revision, and her most recent project, Bestiary. Click
News & Reviews
News:
Veronica Golos’ Vocabulary of Silence has won the NM Book Award!
Date: October 13, 2011
Red Hen would like to congratulate Veronica Golos, was chosen a winner the 2011 New Mexico Book Awards for her poetry collection Vocabulary of Silence (Red Hen Press, 2011). The […]
Suck on the Marrow in the San Francisco Examiner
Date: July 21, 2011
The San Francisco Examiner's LJ Moore gives Suck on the Marrow a rave review, writing "Suck on the Marrow is ambitious, complex, unflinching, and ultimately welcoming, so that the ugliness, […]
A Measure’s Hush Review
Date: May 6, 2011
Anne Coray's newest title A Measure's Hush, published by Boreal an imprint of Red Hen, was given a shining review in the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner: "But really great poets take […]
Suck on the Marrow wins the NCBA
Date: April 11, 2011
Congratulations to Camille Dungy, whose Suck on the Marrow has won the Northern California Book Award! Against some pretty tough competition, might we add. Full list of nominees
Ship of Fool” featured on Verse Daily”
Date: April 8, 2011
William Trowbridge's Spring 2011 poetry collection Ship of Fool has a featured poem of the day on Verse Daily. To check out the website and see the poem, "Foolproof", click […]
Interview with Veronica Golos
Date: April 4, 2011
Write On Online has a great new interview with Veronica Golos talking about her poetry, including her newest collection Vocabulary of Silence. She talks about her career as a writer […]
David Mason interview
Date: March 28, 2011
The "High Plains Reader" has a great new interview with Red Hen author and Colorado Poet Laureate David Mason. He talks about his inspirations and gives a bit of advice, […]
Gaylord Brewer Interview with Chapter 16
Date: March 25, 2011
Chapter 16 (a forum of Tennessee writers, readers, and passerby) posted a fantastic interview with Gaylord Brewer regarding his 8th collection of poems Give Over, Graymalkin. Gaylord discusses his residences […]
Summer Brenner on West Coast Live!
Date: March 25, 2011
Reviews:
Sholeh Wolpe’s Rooftops of Tehran
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 […]
The Critic’s Pen review of Future Ship
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 […]
One Poet’s Notes, Valparaiso Poetry Review
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 […]
Beth Ann Fennelly, The Southern Register
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 […]
Cynthia Arrieu-King, Diagram
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 […]
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 […]