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: February 18, 2025
We are pleased to announce that Library Journal’s Prepub Preview has featured four Red Hen Press titles: What She Wants by Kim Dower, We by April Ossmann, The Burning Heart […]
Date: February 10, 2025
“A Promise of Peaches” Many Japanese Americans advocate for human rights. There’s a reason.
Date: February 6, 2025
This original and unique pandemic film created by local Vermont artists and performers, marks the Centennial of Women’s Suffrage in dance and poetry, and is dedicated to Justice Ruth Bader […]
Date: February 6, 2025
Every April in Montpelier, visitors can be found staring intently at store windows, to which are affixed hundreds of poems by local authors. This is how we gratefully stumbled on […]
Date: February 6, 2025
The Australian showcases David Mason’s poem EENSY.
Date: February 4, 2025
Berkeley, California based author Yang Huang shares tales of growing up in China, post cultural revolution. And how, on the heels of the Tiananmen Square protests, she was empowered to […]
Date: February 4, 2025
The Burning Heart of the World by Nancy Kricorian is part of this year’s Literary Lights series by the International Armenian Literary Alliance.
Date: January 3, 2023
Mason is a poet defined by place, if it is Southeast Asia on the Pacific Rim or Northwest America, his poems breathe life of the people around him as well […]
Date: December 13, 2022
Dead Can Dance formed in their native Australia in 1981. The core of the band was (and is) Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard. When they relocated to England and settled […]
Date: December 5, 2022
A refreshing book, I thought – a collection of short stories that this reviewer started from the beginning rather than picking and choosing which story to read next, based on […]
Date: November 30, 2022
Diane Thiel’s third collection of poetry, Questions from Outer Space, comes after an interlude during which the poet devoted her energies to a travel memoir (The White Horse) and the translation […]
Date: November 30, 2022
The evolution of blank verse from Milton to Wordsworth, via Cowper, was not solely a change in diction and subject matter. Even as classical and biblical themes were displaced by […]
Date: November 21, 2022
A POET KNOWN for his narratives, like Ludlow, the acclaimed historical-novel-in-verse turned opera, David Mason curates the archipelago of intensely satisfying lyric poems in Pacific Light with the skill of a consummate storyteller. […]
Date: November 21, 2022
Koertge inhabits – and endows – his various subjects with insight and humour, dealing out poems in the voices of car crash dummies, Aphrodite, Mickey Mouse, Little Red Riding Hood, […]
Date: November 17, 2022
A simultaneously elegant and sharp-edged exploration of the hidden past. “I am haunted by gaps in family memories, nebulous responses and twisted behavior that must be examined within the context […]
Date: November 17, 2022
A mordantly tender triumph rich with natural imagery. Uschuk’s poetry collection calls out authoritarianism and social injustice. This moving set of poems offer messages of hope as it addresses timely […]
Date: November 16, 2022
“Paired with artist Patricia Wakida’s haunting illustrations, the book’s rich, lyrical language evokes both cultural eloquence and California’s seasonal beauty. Poignant and reflective, Secret Harvests is a family saga of […]
