Kathleen Driskell on Poetry Foundations’ Best-Seller List
Date: June 22, 2009
News & Reviews
News:
Red Hen Press Announces 2008 Award Winners
Date: May 28, 2009
Nickole Brown Wins NEA Fellowship
Date: December 8, 2008
Nickole Brown, author of Sister (Red Hen Press, 2007), was awarded a $25,000 NEA Fellowship for 2009. For more information, please see:
Maurya Simon profiled in Press-Enterprise
Date: December 2, 2008
UCR poet gets exposure on Garrison Keillor program For the full article, go here:
Amy Lemmon is Guest Blogger at the Best American Poetry Blog
Date: September 7, 2008
The Islands Project wins 2008 GCLS
Date: August 1, 2008
Reviews:
Kirkus Reviews THE RE IN REFUGE by Adrianne Kalfopoulou
Date: August 4, 2025
A poignant and profoundly relevant examination of society’s safe places. In this essay collection, Kalfopoulou explores the notion of refuge in all its varied facets. “Embedded in the word refugee […]
CHAGOS ARCHIPELAGO by Tom Lutz Reviewed in Kirkus Reviews
Date: July 24, 2025
Four stories merge into one in this tale of politics and greed set in the Indian Ocean. No one can trust anyone in this incendiary tale of murder, espionage, and […]
This Isle Is Full of Noises: World Literature Today On Andrew Lam’s STORIES FROM THE EDGE OF THE SEA
Date: June 30, 2025
Twelve years ago, Andrew Lam, a writer and journalist who left Vietnam as “a plane person” at the end of the Vietnam War at the age of eleven, published Birds of Paradise […]
Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network Reviews STORIES FROM THE EDGE OF THE SEA by Andrew Lam
Date: June 18, 2025
In Stories from the Edges of the Sea, Andrew Lam writes not from the center of trauma but from its quieter afterlives. These are not conventional Vietnamese refugee stories. They emerge […]
Necessary Fiction Remarks on the Interplay Between “the Weird and the Mundane” in Their Glowing Review of Molly Olguín’s Debut Collection THE SEA GIVES UP THE DEAD
Date: June 17, 2025
The stories in The Sea Gives Up the Dead, Molly Olguín’s debut collection, are remarkable for the ways in which they skate between the weird and the mundane, the ordinary and […]
Didi Jackson’s MY INFINITY Featured in Seven Days’ Writeup On Vermont Books
Date: June 12, 2025
In her second poetry collection, Didi Jackson shifts among lyrical strategies, sometimes earthy and elsewhere mystical. An assistant professor at Tennessee’s Vanderbilt University, she spends part of the year in […]
Kirkus Reviews and Lara Ehrlich’s BIND ME TIGHTER STILL
Date: May 27, 2025
The relationship between Ceto—a siren who left her sisters and the ocean behind—and her 15-year-old daughter, Naia, is tested when Sirenland, their seaside burlesque attraction, is threatened by the untimely […]
Chapter House Journal Reviews Blood Wolf Moon by Elise Paschen
Date: May 22, 2025
In James, Percival Everett’s National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, the character James writes, “With my pencil, I wrote myself into being. I wrote myself to here.” By doing […]
Midwest Book Review highlights WHAT SHE WANTS by Kim Dower
Date: April 23, 2025
MBR Bookwatch features a review of Kim Dower’s latest poetry collection, What She Wants, written by Mary Cowper. “Her word smithing, poetry based storytelling skills are truly impressive.”
NPR Host Scott Simon talks about THE BURNING HEART OF THE WORLD with its author Nancy Kricorian
Date: April 22, 2025
Scott Simon joins Nancy Kricorian for a conversation about her novel The Burning Heart of the World. Simon praised the book as “a wonderful novel … tough and moving”.