Laila Halaby’s THE WEIGHT OF GHOSTS featured in the Library Journal!
Date: July 10, 2023
…novelist Laila Halaby’s The Weight of Ghosts (Red Hen, Sept.), about her 21-year-old son’s death at a time of national upheaval.
Date: July 10, 2023
…novelist Laila Halaby’s The Weight of Ghosts (Red Hen, Sept.), about her 21-year-old son’s death at a time of national upheaval.
Date: June 29, 2023
Loafing is the most popular lesson of my 20-year teaching career. I got the idea from Walt Whitman, who writes in “Song of Myself”: I loafe and invite my soul, […]
Date: June 28, 2023
STONINGTON — In a dark green, cozy room decorated with icons, books, poetry and antiques, Lara Ehrlich sat at a large table, while her puppy, Cocoa, slept in a chair […]
Date: June 27, 2023
In 1942, a Japanese American family relinquishes their daughter to the state to protect her from being sent to forced relocation camps during the war. Seventy years later, her nephew […]
Date: June 27, 2023
“Reverence for the natural world provides her comfort, as does her fierce attachment to her sister and her parents’ poignant guidance. But it is the intimacy with another young woman […]
Date: June 17, 2023
I have a recurrent dream in which my mother refuses to feed me. A long table displaying an array of delectable foods stands before me. This is food that my […]
Date: June 12, 2023
MacLeish Sq., Dennis Must’s curiously appealing new novel, takes the reader through the obscure final act of a man’s life. The main character, sixty-nine-year-old John Proctor, buys an old farmhouse on […]
Date: June 12, 2023
Seventeen years ago, June was officially designated as National Caribbean Heritage Month in the United States. Who better to help us celebrate than Donna Hemans? Born and raised in Jamaica, […]
Date: June 12, 2023
The Boxer of Quirinal (Red Hen Press, 80 pp. $22, paper) is a new collection of John Barr’s poems. Barr, a former president of the Poetry Foundation, served as a Navy […]
Date: June 8, 2023
New & Upcoming Indie Releases to Add to Your Reading List. FROM THE LONGING ORCHARD Eighteen-year-old Sonya Hudson has been gripped by phobia since she was thirteen. What would make […]
Date: May 31, 2013
Grace Cavalieri from the Washington Independent calls Dan Vera's Speaking Wiri Wiri "an exegesis on language and culture."- "Vera writes so we know how it was for him, and that […]
Date: May 17, 2013
Garrett Bryant from Hinged says that the poems from Brynn Saito's The Palace of Contemplating Departure sing.- "Saito’s ferocious and confident voice guides the reader through both an external journey […]
Date: May 17, 2013
Christopher Bernard from Synchronized Chaos says that the poems found in Ernest Hilbert's All of You on the Good Earth are "some of the most elegant poems in American literature […]
Date: May 9, 2013
Donna Miscolta calls Kelly Davio's Burn This House "blisteringly good poetry".- "In Burn this House (Red Hen Press), Kelly Davio explores relationships—how they falter or erode, how time distorts the […]
Date: May 9, 2013
Thuy Dinh from Shelf Awareness praises Burn This House by Kelly Davio.- "Kelly Davio's debut poetry collection, Burn This House, smolders with doubt and misdirection. Cosmic yet controlled, her poetry […]
Date: May 1, 2013
ArielleYarwood from Lambda Literary Review calls Eloise Klein Healy's A Wild Surmise: New & Selected Poems & Recordings "a book that won’t easily be shaken from your mind."- "How to […]
Date: May 1, 2013
Michelle Salcido from The Rumpus praises Kelly Davio's Burn This House.- "Davio explores the erosion of faith, time, memory, and love with clear speakers who are unafraid to expose doubts […]
Date: April 25, 2013
Charlie Bondhus from Lambda Literary praises Dan Vera's use of language in Speaking Wiri Wiri.- "…there is no gibberish to be found in Vera’s Letras Latinas-winning poetry collection. Rather, there […]
Date: April 25, 2013
Dan O'Brien applauds B.H. James' ability to write "a very American story" in Parnucklian for Chocolate.- "This story has the chaotic rumble of human beings in a jarring sequence of […]
Date: April 25, 2013
Julie Swarstad Johnson praises Nicole Stellon O'Donnell's Steam Laundry for it's poems that "soar with rich figurative language and inventive description".- "This unique debut collection presents not only images worth […]