Content Bookstore hosts a LIVE Conversation with CHERI JOHNSON
Date: June 3, 2024
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News & Reviews
News:
An interview with Elise Paschen for Water~Stone Review!
Date: May 29, 2024
Your poem, “Divination,” is a gorgeous blend of imagery, myth, and spring welcoming. Where did the spark for this poem come from? Thank you! During the pandemic, our family moved […]
Vox Populi feautres “Return of the Warbling Vireo” by Pamela Uschuk, author of REFUGEE!
Date: May 29, 2024
Deep in the oleanders’ dense thicket, a warbling vireo screamsfor a mate, another migrant back from his longtrek from Mexico. He loves the green tangoof poison leaves keeping his slim […]
Vol. 1 Brooklyn interviews C. Bain on SEX AUGURY
Date: May 29, 2024
“It seems possible that, because sex and violence are encoded together, there could be a way into reorienting towards violence by rethinking sexuality, (and by extension gender relations.) I’m not […]
Denver Public Library recommends Aliah Wright’s NOW YOU OWE ME for “Spring Book Buzz 2024”!
Date: May 29, 2024
Spring is finally here, which means it is time to get started on your summer reading list. Dodie, our Central Library based readers advisor, will tell you about 32 titles […]
Author Event with AS THE SKY BEGINS TO CHANGE author Kim Stafford with music by Jan DeWeese at Bishop & Wilde in Portland, OR, Thursday May 30th at 6:30 PT
Date: May 23, 2024
Victoria Thomas spotlights E.P. Tuazon’s A PROFESSIONAL LOLA in Local News Pasadena article on Filipino cuisine!
Date: May 22, 2024
A Professional Lola is the title of author E.P. Tuazon’s newest collection of short stories, published earlier in May by Pasadena’s Red Hen Press. The title story opens with the author’s […]
CLMP Firecracker Awards Finalist YOU WERE WATCHING FROM THE SAND by Juliana Lamy for 2024 Season
Date: May 20, 2024
The CLMP Firecracker Awards for Independently Published Literature are given annually to celebrate books and magazines that make a significant contribution to our literary culture and the publishers that strive […]
Madeleine Nakamura speaks to Local News Pasadena on CURSEBREAKERS and more!
Date: May 16, 2024
American author of the debut inclusive adult fantasy novel “Cursebreakers,” published by Red Hen Press in September, 2023. Nakamura grew up in the Pasadena area and says that she gets some of her […]
Afaa M. Weaver receives the 2024 Paterson Poetry Prize for A FIRE IN THE HILLS!
Date: May 15, 2024
The Paterson Poetry Prize is sponsored by The Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College. It is a $2000 award for a book of poems, 48 pages or more in […]
Reviews:
Kazim Ali’s NEW MOONS reviewed by World Literature Today!
Date: May 9, 2022
In his introduction to New Moons, a collection of poetry, fiction, and lyrical memoirs by Muslims in North America, Kazim Ali confesses the difficulty of embarking on an anthology that seeks […]
YOUR NOSTALGIA IS KILLING ME reviewed in Foreword Reviews!
Date: May 5, 2022
THE SKIN OF MEANING reviewed in North of Oxford!
Date: May 3, 2022
YOUR NOSTALGIA IS KILLING ME reviewed in North of Oxford!
Date: May 3, 2022
Kim Dower’s I WORE THIS DRESS TODAY FOR YOU, MOM reviewed in Shelf Awareness!
Date: May 2, 2022
Kim Dower’s I Wore This Dress Today for You, Mom finds the former City Poet Laureate of West Hollywood celebrating a colorful mosaic of mothering moments that range from the spiritual to […]
AMERICAN BASTARD reviewed in Severance Magazine!
Date: April 21, 2022
Kim Dower’s I WORE THIS DRESS TODAY FOR YOU, MOM reviewed on WBZ Book Club
Date: April 19, 2022
UNDERNEATH reviewed in Midwest Book Review
Date: April 19, 2022
John Weir’s YOUR NOSTALGIA IS KILLING ME reviewed in Five South!
Date: April 19, 2022
John Weir’s linked stories explore sexuality and separation through platonic love, activism, art, and death — in a time when gender was confined to “girl, boy, or faggot” and AIDS […]
Carlos Allende’s COFFEE, SHOPPING, MURDER, LOVE reviewed in Kirkus Reviews!
Date: April 4, 2022
Elaborate scams and workplace murders abound in this bleakly comic novel.