Date: April 8, 2025
“I grew up in a two-family house in the Armenian enclave of East Watertown, Massachusetts. My parents, my sister, and I lived on the ground floor, and my grandmother and […]
Date: April 8, 2025
Lara Ehrlich’s upcoming novel, Bind Me Tighter Still—set to be released this September—is featured in Every Book a Doorway. The reviewer praises the book’s originality, writing that it contains ideas […]
Date: April 8, 2025
April Ossmann was recently interviewed by The Reporter, where she reflected on her literary journey and discussed how rising political tensions in the United States since 2015 have shaped the […]
Date: April 8, 2025
In Cynthia Hogue’s tenth collection of poetry, instead, it is dark, she explores the lingering ghosts of war after her husband suffers a heart attack and recounts dreams of his […]
Date: April 7, 2025
Vanishing: A Love Story — a documentary by Sandra Luckow receiving a preview screening at Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 63 High St. on April 8 at 7 p.m., with a Q&A with the director […]
Date: April 2, 2025
Malia Márquez’s City of Smoke and Sea is featured in Alta Journal’s “13 New Books for April” — a list of titles their editors are excited about.
Date: April 1, 2025
The Sea Gives Up the Dead by Molly Olguín has been selected as one of Ms. Magazine’s Most Anticipated Feminist Books of 2025! Author Karla J. Strand shared her excitement […]
Date: March 18, 2025
Poet Elise Paschen was recently featured in WBEZ Chicago, where she discussed Kitihawa, who, alongside her husband Jean Baptiste Point Du Sable, founded the city of Chicago. During the interview […]
Date: March 4, 2025
In 1994, Kate Gale and Mark E. Cull co-founded Red Hen Press from their Los Angeles home, selling nearly all they owned to begin publishing poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction from talented writers. Today, Red […]
Date: February 20, 2025
Poet Kim Dower, author of “What She Wants: Poems on Obsession, Desire, Despair, Euphoria,” joined us to share her latest poetry collection.
Date: January 13, 2021
“Rift Zone” by Tess Taylor, is a powerful, moving collection of poetry giving voice to the voiceless, and to those who express theirs in a whisper, a whimper, a growl, […]
Date: January 13, 2021
I went on this journey, to be sure, knowing where I was headed. The historical part wasn’t that historical to my frame of reference; the queer part contained my frame […]
Date: January 4, 2021
“But the one thing I know for sure, this is the one life you have and you have to make it work.” Some novels make the meat and bones of […]
Date: January 4, 2021
Seasons of the pandemic and some books that bore witness (2020 Small Press Roundup, Part I) by Rebecca Stoddard Sometime back in the beginning of November, my computer crashed and […]
Date: January 4, 2021
5 stars I wasn’t sure what to expect with this collection of short stories and I don’t read them often so I was pleasantly surprised to find that once I […]
Date: December 16, 2020
The lyric essay form, reliant on gaps and fragmentation, beautifully aligns with Koets’ own experience of compression and expansion, as her narrator moves from a closeted existence to one of […]
Date: December 14, 2020
Author/Editor/Poet Rob Mclennan in his blog, reviews Danielle Vogel’s collection THE WAY A LINE HALLUCINATES ITS OWN LINEARITY. The author of Between Grammars (Noemi Press, 2015) and Edges & Fray (Wesleyan University Press, 2019) […]
Date: December 10, 2020
We are all, in this pandemic, a living elegy; there are loves, possibilities, selves, ways of life that are dead, a mobile mortality poets have always known and used their […]
Date: December 2, 2020
It’s difficult for me to find comparisons to these poems. There are qualities that bring to mind Milosz’s humble prophesies or the earthy divinities of Robert Bly. Some of Brewer’s […]
Date: November 30, 2020
Ludvigson’s poems are quiet and linguistically unadorned, a testament to the starkness of bereavement. Despite the simplicity of her language, Ludvigson dedicates many of her poems to the careful description […]
