Date: June 12, 2023
Seventeen years ago, June was officially designated as National Caribbean Heritage Month in the United States. Who better to help us celebrate than Donna Hemans? Born and raised in Jamaica, […]
Date: June 12, 2023
The Boxer of Quirinal (Red Hen Press, 80 pp. $22, paper) is a new collection of John Barr’s poems. Barr, a former president of the Poetry Foundation, served as a Navy […]
Date: June 8, 2023
New & Upcoming Indie Releases to Add to Your Reading List. FROM THE LONGING ORCHARD Eighteen-year-old Sonya Hudson has been gripped by phobia since she was thirteen. What would make […]
Date: June 7, 2023
UCSD Ph.D. student Phuong T. Vuong just released A Plucked Zither, a beautiful and haunting collection of poems that spans space and time. In particular, she explores the dichotomy of making a […]
Date: June 1, 2023
History of Desire I. In the photographmy mother is ten;she poses in a ruffled dressand hand-me-down coatthat swallows her armsthe way shame swallowspeople whole. Lost in the oversize. Standingnear a […]
Date: June 1, 2023
Poemas de William Archila, estos poemas forman parte del libro “The Gravedigger’s Archaeology” (Red Hen Press, 2015), ahora traducidos al español por el poeta Mario Zetino en exclusiva para Revista […]
Date: May 30, 2023
I’m Jason Schneiderman, and this is The Slowdown. My little brother was a very cute and very happy baby. In all the baby pictures of him, he has an enormous and […]
Date: May 23, 2023
#AuthorInterview | Ask debut novelist Jade Shyback a question “…Novelist Jade Shyback has had many lives that I find just completely fascinating. And now is your chance to join the conversation and ask her a question. I’m going […]
Date: May 23, 2023
By Maurya Simon | Contributing Columnist During National Poetry Month in April 2013, I taught poetry to students at Mt. Baldy School. It was a great experience, and, ultimately, their hard work […]
Date: May 23, 2023
In her ninth collection of poems, Ghost Apples, Katharine Coles interrogates and celebrates her relationship with the natural world and the various creatures who inhabit it, and in doing so […]
Date: November 19, 2024
“I am good with secrets,” Jackson confesses early in her subtle latest (after Moon Jar). She makes good on that statement in poems that detail the secrets of the departed, including […]
Date: October 31, 2024
In My Infinity (Red Hen Press), Didi Jackson employs a lyrical grace and intimate tone as she seeks transcendence, even while acknowledging that not all wounds may heal. She explores personal concessions […]
Date: October 31, 2024
My Infinity is a volume that puts Didi Jackson’s talent on full display. This is only her second poetry volume (the first, Moon Jar, was published in 2020), but it reads like […]
Date: October 15, 2024
Blue Atlas is an absorbing and heart-wrenching collection that revolves around the poet’s decision, thirty years back, to have an abortion rather than go full term with an unplanned pregnancy. As […]
Date: October 15, 2024
Book Review: Thomas McGuire’s second novel is as lyrical, intelligent and suspenseful as his first By Nancy Lord Updated: September 14, 2024Published: September 14, 2024 “The Curve of Equal Time” By […]
Date: October 1, 2024
By g emil reutter There is much involved when dealing with mental illness in a family member. There is always the hope for a turnaround, a recovery and in some […]
Date: September 17, 2024
If Hilma af Klint’s monumental paintings could speak, what would they say? Didi Jackson answers this with a resonant collection of poems, several written from the perspective of the Swedish […]
Date: September 16, 2024
“Didi Jackson’s second collection of poems, My Infinity, is a quiet, pensive reckoning with life and death by a speaker uniquely suited to discuss such enigmatic subjects.”
Date: September 10, 2024
In Didi Jackson’s My Infinity, the “Northern sky stands so straight, / it uses the largest pines for crutches;” “The moon’s marias emerge / like age spots, monochromatic and ashy;” and […]
Date: September 9, 2024
“A cogent, skeptical collection that examines those whose stories are erased or preserved.”
