Date: December 5, 2022
Art surrounds us especially at this time of year. The colors, the sounds, the aromas, the lights, the music, the images — it’s the season of art that is woven […]
Date: December 5, 2022
My anger is a burnt match on a blanket of snow. My anger resembles the songsmith shredding his songs. I don’t get it why conquest is another word for foreign […]
Date: November 30, 2022
The first line of Pamela Uschuk’s extraordinary new book Refugee throws down the gauntlet to all who are guilty of less than full attention to the blood-drenched, war-torn contemporary world: “So you […]
Date: November 30, 2022
As an Asian American writer in literary fiction, there’s been a lot of really great stories told about the immigrant experience. That’s been one of our our go-to subjects. And […]
Date: November 30, 2022
Diane Thiel is the author of twelve books of poetry and nonfiction.
Date: November 30, 2022
Diane Thiel with SoFloPoJo’s Elisa Albo for Miami Book Fair 2022.
Date: November 21, 2022
John Weir’s short story collection Your Nostalgia is Killing Me is featured in North of Oxford’s “Most Read Reviews” of this year. Charles Rammelkamp writes “Your Nostalgia Is Killing Me is […]
Date: November 17, 2022
“Time in the Wilderness” by Diane Thiel is from Questions from Outer Space (Red Hen Press, 2022).
Date: November 15, 2022
Selma told me she is reading festival author Emmons’ Sinking Islands and recommends it to anyone interested in mystery and nature.
Date: November 15, 2022
Peter Ulrich thinks he got the ultimate fan trip ― to play, record, and tour with his favourite band, Dead Can Dance. His memoir details the early days, from signing with 4AD, […]
Date: October 10, 2023
This fall, Food Tank is recommending 23 books that can broaden and deepen everyone’s understanding of food systems and the power of storytelling. Books like Taras Grescoe’s The Lost Supper, Sarah Lohman’s Endangered Eating, […]
Date: September 25, 2023
In Pacific Light, David Mason’s eighth collection of poems, we find the former Poet Laureate of Colorado newly settled in Tasmania, weighing the “titanic volumes of air” between “here and Patagonia” […]
Date: September 20, 2023
What Small Sound, a new poetry collection by Francesca Bell, is an exploration of life, death, and love, and of the myriad ways these essential elements of human existence intersect and […]
Date: September 20, 2023
The Bookgirl Community in the Daily Kos highlights key takeaways from Juliana Lamy’s first short-story collection, You Were Watching from the Sand, published by Red Hen Press this September! Read […]
Date: September 20, 2023
Krueger offers a memoir about caring for a sick child in poetry form. Krueger explores connections between flora, motherhood, and illness in this poetry collection. The title refers to the way […]
Date: September 13, 2023
Acclaimed novelist and poet Laila Halaby’s memoir, The Weight of Ghosts, documents her struggle to bear up after the devastating loss after her first-born son, Raad, 21, was killed on the […]
Date: September 6, 2023
What does it mean to heal your inner child? To overcome past trauma? To find the puzzle piece that had been lost years ago, or in another life? In a […]
Date: September 6, 2023
Many American Jews are unaffiliated with Judaism. Some do not observe Jewish rituals in any regular way; others might not worship at all. And yet Jewishness still pervades their lives: […]
Date: September 5, 2023
Ghost Apples, the ninth collection of poems by University of Utah distinguished professor Katharine Coles, offers not only nature-based poems that stir and satiate hunger, but also serrated verse that […]
Date: September 5, 2023
“My story has never been mine to tell,” says novelist, poet, and creative writing teacher Laila Halaby in her memoir, The Weight of Ghosts. “It is squished between other people’s tall […]
