Lansing State Journal celebrates AAPI Heritage Month with SECRET HARVESTS by David Mas Masumoto
Date: May 2, 2024
Lansing State Journal lists SECRET HARVESTS as one of 20 books to honor AAPI Heritage Month. Check out the full list below!
News & Reviews
News:
Amy Shearn discusses unplugging, being a woman writer, DEAR EDNA SLOANE, and more in LitHub interview!
Date: May 1, 2024
Welcome to I’m a Writer But, where writers discuss their work, their lives, their other work, the stuff that takes up any free time they have, all the stuff they’re not […]
THE WEIGHT OF GHOSTS by Laila Halaby featured on a Reading List for Arab American Heritage Month 2024 from CLMP
Date: April 30, 2024
For Arab American Heritage Month, observed annually during the month of April, we asked our member magazines and presses to share with us some of the work by Arab American […]
UNDER A FUTURE SKY author Brynn Saito in conversation with The Adroit Journal
Date: April 30, 2024
Brynn Saito’s third book of poems, Under a Future Sky, was published in August 2023 by Red Hen Press. A 2023 California Arts Council Individual Artist Fellow, Brynn is the […]
DEAR EDNA SLOANE author Amy Shearn interviewed by The Campaign for the American Reader
Date: April 30, 2024
Q&A with Amy Shearn From my Q&A with Amy Shearn, author of Dear Edna Sloane: How much work does your title do to take readers into the story? I think […]
Must-Read Essay by Susan Rich, “If I Knew Then What I Know Now” featured in Solstice Magazine
Date: April 29, 2024
Thank you to Solstice Magazine for publishing Susan Rich’s powerful essay on her experience with coerced abortion and how writing her latest collection of poems helped her heal.
Chicago Review of Books Welcomes DEAR EDNA SLOANE’S Amy Shearn as Resident Author
Date: April 25, 2024
Follow along as Amy Shearn posts a photo on Chicago Review of Books’ Instagram page every day leading up to the release of DEAR EDNA SLOANE on April 30.
DRUMMING WITH DEAD CAN DANCE author and musician Peter Ulrich returns to the Curious Creatures Podcast for part 2
Date: April 23, 2024
In this Episode Lol and Budgie talk to Peter Ulrich about ‘The Need and The Desire to Hold Things Together!’
The Campaign for the American reader interviews THE GOOD DEED author Helen Benedict
Date: April 22, 2024
How much work does your title do to take readers into the story? I think titles are of utmost importance to the writer and the reader. For the writer, they […]
BLUE ATLAS author Susan Rich interviewed by Solstice Literary Magazine
Date: April 22, 2024
Susan Rich’s masterful collection, Blue Atlas, (Red Hen Press, April 2, 2024) is a physical and emotional travelogue through a “land of deferred decisions.” In this collection, the reader is […]
Reviews:
Library Journal Issue 5/Arts and Humanities
Date: May 2, 2009
"Everything I write requires this: Alphabet." A child sees letters first, "shape distinguishing itself from its background," but soon we lose the innocence of that first encounter to ideas of […]
Tara Betts Reviews Camille Dungy’s What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison
Date: April 24, 2009
Dungy's first poetry collection offers a number of ways to look at what is considered to be a part of nature, whether it is a part of the plants or […]
Sholeh Wolpe’s Rooftops of Tehran
Date: April 22, 2009
Sholeh Wolpe's Rooftops of Tehran is that truly rare event: an important book of poetry. Brushing against the grain of Persian-Islamic culture, she sings a deep affection for what she […]
The Critic’s Pen review of Future Ship
Date: April 19, 2009
Perhaps there is no present, and existence is built of the alterable past moving into the alterable future, and then through the opaque door of death. Or perhaps there is […]
One Poet’s Notes, Valparaiso Poetry Review
Date: April 18, 2009
http://edwardbyrne.blogspot.com/2007/04/leslie-heywood-proving-grounds.htmlMONDAY, APRIL 2, 2007Leslie Heywood: THE PROVING GROUNDSLeafing through the work in Leslie Heywood's premiere book of poetry, The Proving Grounds, one quickly becomes accustomed to uncovering sometimes uncomfortable and […]
Beth Ann Fennelly, The Southern Register
Date: April 16, 2009
"In the debut collection from Kentucky poet Nickole Brown, readers experience the pleasures of poetry "the illuminated moment reverberating" as well as the pleasures of the novel–the narrative unfurling, driven […]
Cynthia Arrieu-King, Diagram
Date: April 16, 2009
"If you feel that high emotion and unalienated confession is not art, as Slavoj Zizek might assert that it cops to the System where the individual is valued for trying […]
Ely Shipley, Quarterly West
Date: April 16, 2009
"Brown's awareness of the book's form, its how in addition to its what, allows for these poems' rich complexities. The order not only forms a linear narrative, but layers experience. […]
Julie Enszer, Lambda Book Report
Date: April 16, 2009
"The strength of Sister is in the details, some of which are constructed through Brown's diction, which is gently infused with a southern dialect but resists caricature. She writes of […]
Melanie Jordan, Southern Indiana Review
Date: April 16, 2009
"To write of one's own conception, gestation, birth"to write convincingly of unknowable-yet-familiar moments: that is the power of poetry and the power of Nickole Brown's debut, Sister, a self-styled "novel-in-poems.' […]