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: April 12, 2012
Rigoberto Gonzalez gives praise for Lillian-Yvonne Bertram's But a Storm is Blowing From Paradise in the latest Harriett blog, saying: "But a Storm is Blowing from Paradise is a rich […]
Date: April 12, 2012
The Courier-Journal's Kathleen Driskell had this to say about Lynnell Edwards' Covet: "A reader of poetry is in good hands with Edwards' work. Her language allows accessible entry into her […]
Date: March 23, 2012
In a recent Writeliving's Blog post, author Martin Ott talks about his connection to fellow Alaskan Nicole Stellon O'Donnell, and her new collection of poetry, Steam Laundry. "[Steam Laundry is] […]
Date: March 19, 2012
Veteran David Willson has just reviewed Offspring on "Books in Brief," an online feature that complements “Books in Review,” which runs in The VVA Veteran, the national magazine of Vietnam […]
Date: March 16, 2012
Cult. Bomb author Danielle Mitchell recently blogged this about Calamity Joe, Brendan Constantine's newest collection of poems from Red Hen Press: "Here there is wonder, earth, humor, rancid, lameness, shimmer, […]
Date: March 14, 2012
Shelf Awareness' Tom Lavoie has this to say about Ron Carlson's Room Service: "The poems and prose pieces in Room Service are thoughtful, witty, sad and hopeful–rarely angry or mad. […]
Date: March 7, 2012
In a recent Catholic Books Review article, Arthur J. Kubick had this to say about Imagine No Religion: The Autobiography of Blase Bonpane – "This fascinating autobiography takes the reader […]
Date: February 27, 2012
“Dungy captures the human heart and soul in her characters while illustrating the rawness of their suffering with gracefully blatant and rebellious passion.” – Phati'tude Literary Magazine The full text […]
Date: February 27, 2012
In Strong Verse, G.M. Palmer says this about Among the Goddesses- "Like any poet of worth, Finch produces beautiful lines, by themselves worth the price of admission.” For the full […]
Date: February 27, 2012
In the recent Valparaiso Poetry Review, Paul David Adkins had this to say about Tongue- "Within this hard-fought, inspiring collection, Flynn masterfully couples the lyric and narrative to create a […]