Date: July 8, 2024
Helen Benedict, a British-American professor at Columbia University, is the author of seven previous novels, six books of nonfiction, and a play. Her newest novel, The Good Deed (Red Hen […]
Date: June 27, 2024
Listen to the new Constant Wonder podcast episode featuring David Mas Masumoto! Masumoto talks about his new memoir, SECRET HARVESTS: A HIDDEN STORY OF SEPARATION AND RESILIENCE ON A FAMILY […]
Date: June 27, 2024
Listen in to this morning radio show, Hobart Breakfast, where David Mason makes an appearance!
Date: June 19, 2024
This spring, Kim Stafford released As the Sky Begins to Change, his third book of poetry from California-based Red Hen Press. The empathetic and witty collection by the educator, writer, and Oregon’s ninth […]
Date: June 10, 2024
Me: I think there’s a lot of trauma he has to process Dr. K: Did something happen?! —“Medical History #2,” The Bearable Slant of Light In the first intake documents from […]
Date: June 6, 2024
Thank you to the Shelf Unbound Editor for the immense support for our titles! Mirage by Nahid Rachlin Sonnets for a Missing Key by Percival Everett Circle of Animals by Sadie Hoagland Memento […]
Date: June 6, 2024
“Rosemary’s Baby but set in Northern Minnesota” is how author Cheri Johnson describes her latest work. Annika Rose follows the title character as she navigates the early stages of adulthood while understanding a […]
Date: June 4, 2024
Poet Kim Stafford once again visits the store from Portland for the Seattle launch of his latest collection. As the Sky Begins to Change is a book of poems to wake […]
Date: June 3, 2024
In his third poetry collection from Red Hen Press, Kim Stafford gathers poems that sing with empathy, humor, witness, and story. Poems in this book have been set to music, […]
Date: June 3, 2024
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Date: June 1, 2023
I review Phuong T. Vuong’s A Plucked Zither, from Red Hen Press (June 6, 2023). Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/versecurious/donations
Date: May 23, 2023
Francesca Bell (Bright Stain) writes poems that chime like the bell of her own name: bright but resonant, sharp but still familiar, lush and likely to echo long after its […]
Date: May 23, 2023
Did you read “Slice of Moon,” our poetry book for May? If you didn’t, I don’t blame you; many people shy away from poetry, and I am one of them. […]
Date: May 16, 2023
Manifest Image The man keeps telling me I am beautiful.I still look young. He says it like I’ve asked for it,but I don’t care. For him or beauty. I am […]
Date: May 15, 2023
This collection immediately thrusts us into scenes of relative comfort and privilege that are all too often interrupted by the violent horrors plaguing this current time. Mind you, the terms […]
Date: May 11, 2023
Over the past year, Latina/o/x poets spanning vast aesthetics, experiences, and geographies have dazzled me with collections that reveal the complexity and beauty of our communities in all their irreducible […]
Date: May 8, 2023
How can we take refuge amid the pains of this world? In this collection, Pamela Uschuk, winner of an American Book Award in 2010, faces the realities of recent social […]
Date: May 1, 2023
The Skin of Meaning by Keith Flynn is an interesting mixture of contemporary reactions to issues that affect us in the twenty-first century. Keith presents one hundred and eighty-one pages of poetry divided […]
Date: May 1, 2023
Aqueous is a debut novel set in a world where life on land is dangerous and harsh. To save humanity, an underwater paradise is built in the ocean.
Date: April 25, 2023
David Mas Masumoto has a reputation as a remarkable writer. His previous work includes Epitaph for a Peach: Four Seasons on My Family Farm (1996), Harvest Son: Planting Roots in American Soil (1998), and Four […]
