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:
MACLEISH SQ. by Dennis Must Receives a Five-Star Review on Readers’ Favorite!
Date: March 15, 2023
John Proctor is about to turn seventy when he decides to buy a small farmhouse on the outskirts of the now mostly desolate mill town where he had grown up. […]
PACIFIC LIGHT by David Mason Reviewed in Think Journal’s Winter/Spring 2023 Issue!
Date: March 15, 2023
“Pacific Light may be a summing up, but it is also a new beginning, a book that marvels at the world while confronting loss through the lens of joy. Though […]
PACIFIC LIGHT by David Mason Reviewed in Literary Matters!
Date: March 6, 2023
In Pacific Light, David Mason returns to a familiar theme: his conflicting desires to go places and to stay put. This master of the narrative poem, and a well-established voice in American […]
SECRET HARVESTS by David Mas Masumoto Reviewed in the March 2023 issue of Booklist!
Date: February 15, 2023
Stay tuned for the review March 1!
MACLEISH SQ. by Dennis Must Reviewed in The U.S. Review of Books
Date: February 13, 2023
“At that moment we saw walking toward us a trio of bearded men in black robes mumbling to themselves what I inferred was the liturgy of The White Whale.” As […]
EcoLit Books Reviews Thea Prieto’s FROM THE CAVES!
Date: January 31, 2023
The end of the world is not for the faint of heart, and neither is Thea Prieto’s bold and beautiful novella about four humans pushed to the limits of climate […]
Eamon Grennan’s PLAINCHANT reviewed in Good River Review!
Date: January 24, 2023
In his gripping new poetry collection Plainchant, Eamon Grennan weaves a revelatory narrative, rich with precise detail, layered symbolism, and evocative imagery. Plainchant is a powerful compilation of personal reflections. […]
Dennis Must’s MacLeish Sq. reviewed by Dactyl Review!
Date: January 24, 2023
Edward Said, writing about Beethoven’s late style, defined late style as that time wherein the artist freed from the expected cultural and historical restraints of form and content unleashes a […]
Brown Alumni Magazine reviews Diane Thiel’s QUESTIONS FROM OUTER SPACE!
Date: January 24, 2023
Thiel’s third full-length poetry collection, and her twelfth book, arrives bristling with navigable strangeness and open-ended questions. The 67 sometimes otherworldly poems here weave through biology, parenting, the pandemic, world […]
Asian Review of Books reviews FUTURE LIBRARY: CONTEMPORARY INDIAN WRITING, edited by Anjum Hasan and Sampurna Chattarji!
Date: January 3, 2023
A new anthology of Indian authors writing in, and translating into, English, Future Library: Contemporary Indian Writing creates a new sense of contemporariness on the Indian literary scene. This arrangement distinguishes the […]