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
News & Reviews
News:
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 […]
Author Event with AS THE SKY BEGINS TO CHANGE author Kim Stafford with Bethany Lee at Broadway Books in Portland, OR, Tuesday May 21st at 6:00 PT
Date: May 14, 2024
Please join us for an evening with poet Kim Stafford who will be reading from his latest collection As the Sky Begins to Change, published by Red Hen Press (2024). […]
Helen Benedict, author of THE GOOD DEED, featured on the KPFA Radio Wolinsky podcast
Date: May 13, 2024
Helen Benedict, author of the novel “The Good Deed,” in conversation with host Richard Wolinsky. Helen Benedict is the author of eight novels, including “Wolf Season” and “Sand Queen,” and five […]
Brendan Constantine, author of DEMENTIA, MY DARLING discusses the curious connection between aphasia and poetry with Local News Pasadena
Date: May 7, 2024
June is Aphasia Awareness Month and the month for national observances regarding dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. These aspects of brain function are the unlikely creative focus for poet and educator […]
E.P. Tuazon, author of A PROFESSIONAL LOLA Interviewed By NBC Los Angeles!
Date: May 6, 2024
Orange County libraries are celebrating AANHPI Heritage Month, and NBC LA interviewed E.P. Tuazon on his own work and involvement. Check out the article and the video interview below!
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!
Reviews:
GHOST IN A BLACK GIRL’S THROAT reviewed by Yes Poetry!
Date: February 3, 2021
One facet in poetry’s beauty is its urgency. Its collective need–which is beyond desire–to facilitate a process that weaves its spill and story. Urgency is one of the driving forces […]
WORSHIP THE PIG (Gaylord Brewer) reviewed in Sugar House Reviews!
Date: February 3, 2021
This could be called a book of odes, of praise songs, of quests punctuated with wry asides. Of poems saying not what the poet starts out to say, but what […]
Melanie Conroy-Goldman’s THE LIKELY WORLD reviewed on North of Oxford
Date: February 3, 2021
In Melanie Conroy-Goldman’s novel, The Likely World, Mel lets a drug called “cloud” spread over her mouth and wrap her in a state of forgetfulness. The story is told in a […]
Jason Schneiderman’s HOLD ME TIGHT reviewed by Mark Wagenaar in list of favorite books from 2020!
Date: January 20, 2021
Plume has a number of talented editors, and given the extraordinary year the world faced, I thought asking them for some of their favorite books of 2020 made sense, as […]
THE PLAYWRIGHT’S HOUSE first review!
Date: January 14, 2021
In Dariel Suarez’s debut novel, The Playwright’s House, to be released in June from Red Hen Press, the realities of living in Havana under a communist state are brought alive through […]
Midwest Book Review gives Jennifer Risher’s WE NEED TO TALK a look.
Date: January 13, 2021
When Jennifer Risher joined Microsoft in 1991, she met her husband, and with him became an extra-lucky beneficiary of the dot-com boom. By their early thirties, they had tens of […]
SUMMER OF THE CICADAS Reviewed in Expendable Mudge Blog
Date: January 13, 2021
A book of eerie, unnatural-nature events pushing one lone and lonely lesbian, returned to small-town West Virginia from a law-enforcement career, to deal with Life. After many years’ effort to […]
RIFT ZONE by Tess Taylor reviewed by Reader Views!
Date: January 13, 2021
“Rift Zone” by Tess Taylor, is a powerful, moving collection of poetry giving voice to the voiceless, and to those who express theirs in a whisper, a whimper, a growl, […]
Expendable Mudge Blog reviews THE FALLS OF WYONA
Date: January 13, 2021
I went on this journey, to be sure, knowing where I was headed. The historical part wasn’t that historical to my frame of reference; the queer part contained my frame […]
Caribbean Beats reviews Donna Hemans TEA BY THE SEA
Date: January 4, 2021
“But the one thing I know for sure, this is the one life you have and you have to make it work.” Some novels make the meat and bones of […]