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:
The Fragile Human: A Review Of Tess Taylor’s Rift Zone And Last West, Roadsongs For Dorothea Lange
Date: July 20, 2020
“Whose fault // our fault” the poem “Three Dreams, 2018” opens. Tess Taylor’s fourth collection of poems, Rift Zone, tenders to her reader the language of fault, rift and fracture as her […]
Poetry Book Review: Suitor by Joshua Rivkin
Date: July 20, 2020
In part one (titled “Suitors”) of Rivkin’s sharp debut, a long poem in sections cataloguing his mother’s appalling boyfriends, the speaker recalls one priceless specimen who, for Halloween, dressed as […]
Foreword Review: Sugar, Smoke, Song
Date: July 13, 2020
Reema Rajbanshi’s debut novel-in-stories Sugar, Smoke, Song collects its thematically linked pieces into three clusters with recurring characters. The first group, starting with “The Ruins,” centers on beautiful Indo-Burmese identical […]
Donna Hemans, “Tea by the Sea” Review
Date: July 13, 2020
A new father walks out of the hospital with his day-old baby while the mother recuperates from giving birth. He tells a series of lies and moves houses or countries […]
‘Her Sister’s Tattoo’ Is an Insightful and Compassionate Tale of Sisterhood and Activism
Date: July 13, 2020
Ellen Meeropol’s last name is famous among those of us who still recall the tragic case of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were put to death in 1953 after being […]
Toward Antarctica Review
Date: July 13, 2020
“CAN’T JUST GO. Can’t, more to the point, just arrive, land. You must prepare yourself,” writes the poet Elizabeth Bradfield, in Toward Antarctica, a marvelous book of prose, poems, and photographs that document her tenure as […]
Blog Tour: Tea by the Sea
Date: July 1, 2020
Thank you to the following blogs for featuring Donna Heman’s Tea by the Sea! The Livre Café Jessica Belmont Fiction Matters Everyday I Write the Book Never Without A Book […]
KIRKUS: Tea by the Sea
Date: July 1, 2020
A young mother goes on a quest to track down the father of her child, who abducted their baby daughter shortly after her birth. When Plum Valentine is in high […]
Publisher Weekly: The Likely World
Date: June 30, 2020
This skillful twist on the addiction narrative is worth a look.
RHINO: reviews After Rubén
Date: June 30, 2020
In the essay that caps his latest poetry collection, After Rubén, Francisco Aragón traces his relationship with the Nicaraguan poet Rubén Darío (1867-1916). From the initial gift of a handful […]