FLUTTER, KICK By Anna V.Q. Ross Recommended by The Boston Globe
Date: November 7, 2022
Poet Anna V.Q. Ross knows what to leave unsaid, knows the just enough to send the reader’s blood and mind alight.
News & Reviews
News:
Allison Joseph speaks on Lexicon and new book at Bradley University
Date: November 7, 2022
Allison Joseph, a poet of Caribbean descent, visited Bradley on Nov. 3 in the Wyckoff Room of the Cullom-Davis Library to present a reading of her own poems and her […]
Peter Ulrich Interviewed on Afternoon Drive/Coral Rocks Podcast
Date: November 2, 2022
All the way from England, my very special guest drummer/ percussionist Peter Ulrich of Dead Can Dance and The Peter Ulrich Collaboration. Peter has written a new book called “Drumming […]
Cai Emmons, Author of LIVID, Interviewed on WriterCon Podcast!
Date: October 27, 2022
Bestselling authors William Bernhardt and Rene Gutteridge discuss the latest news from the book world, offer writing tips, and interview Cai Emmons, author of two new books this month, Livid […]
KOIN Recommends Yuvi Zalkow’s I ONLY CRY WITH EMOTICONS as a Great Rainy Day Read!
Date: October 25, 2022
“I Only Cry with Emoticons” by Yuvi Zalkow (2022) Portland writer Yuvi Zalkow captures today’s simultaneously awkward and endearing digital age with “I Only Cry With Emoticons.” The novel’s protagonist […]
Poem Series by William Archila in the Los Angeles Review
Date: October 17, 2022
William Archila’s The Gravedigger’s Archaeology won the Letras Latinas/Red Hen Poetry Prize and his first collection The Art of Exile won an International Latino Book Award. He was featured in Spotlight on Hispanic Writers, […]
William Archila featured in the Annulet Poetics Journal
Date: October 17, 2022
“The Colonel” is a poem of witness because it focuses on the human rights violations in El Salvador, but most importantly because it has revealed the ways in which a […]
YOUR NOSTALGIA IS KILLING ME by John Weir Featured in Washington Post’s List of 10 Award-Winning Short Story Collections Worth Reading!
Date: October 17, 2022
Each year, among the new fiction collections fighting for attention are a handful published neither through mainstream houses nor the usual small press alternatives but via a third avenue: book […]
Charles Harper Webb, Author of URSULA LAKE, is Featured on the Book Society Podcast!
Date: October 13, 2022
Poet and novelist Charles Harper Webb and host, Lucas Cantor, discuss THE BEST book Cantor’s read for the show. Fools Crow by James Welch. Listen to this show, Or don’t […]
Cai Emmons, author of LIVID, Interviewed by Fellow Red Hen Author Aimee Liu in LA Review of Books!
Date: October 12, 2022
THROUGHOUT HER LENGTHY writing career, Cai Emmons has returned again and again to the topic of catastrophe. Three of her most recent novels, including her 2022 groundbreaker Unleashed, have wrestled with […]
Reviews:
Amy Pence’s YELLOW reviewed by Kirkus Reviews
Date: February 11, 2026
Mysticism and science merge in the story of a Louisiana artist. Pence tells her story in language on the border between poetic and precious.
Luke Goebel’s KILL DICK reviewed by Thirsty Caterpillar
Date: February 3, 2026
This week’s Thirst Quencher doesn’t tiptoe, it kicks the door in. Kill Dick by Luke Goebel is dark, unsettling, and unexpectedly funny, driven by characters and ideas that refuse to […]
Abi Pollokoff’s NIGHT MYTHSᐧᐧBEFORE THE BODY reviewed by West Trade Review
Date: February 3, 2026
Abi Pollokoff’s debut poetry collection night myths • • before the body, released this year from Red Hen Press with much advanced praise, is so deft in execution, so consistent […]
Luke Goebel’s KILL DICK reviewed by Publishers Weekly
Date: February 3, 2026
The daughter of a pharmaceutical executive gets ensnared in criminal mischief in this ambitious blend of social satire and sunshine noir from Goebel (Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours). […]
THE SOLDIER’S HOUSE by Helen Benedict gets a raving review!
Date: January 27, 2026
Helen Benedict’s THE SOLDIER’S HOUSE (2026) completes her Iraq war trilogy, that began with SAND QUEEN (2011) and was followed by WOLF SEASON (2017). But the new book is actually […]
Luke Goebel’s KILL DICK reviewed by Kirkus Reviews
Date: January 27, 2026
“…Shot through with the sort of pseudo-profundity endemic to youthful privilege, Susie’s rambling, terminally jaundiced narrative paints a darkly surreal Lynch- and Kubrick-inspired portrait of LA.”
Luke Goebel’s KILL DICK reviewed by Foreword Reviews
Date: January 21, 2026
Luke B. Goebel’s winking satirical novel Kill Dick parodies contemporary literary and cultural forms. Set against sun-bleached Los Angeles—a place marked by wealth, addiction, and apathy—the book accumulates exaggerations of […]
The Pickup from This Land Press reviews Elise Paschen’s BLOOD WOLF MOON
Date: January 20, 2026
How does one build an identity? It’s an ongoing venture of discerning and refining, discarding narratives as much as creating them. For a poet, especially one who writes autobiographically, that […]
Andrew Lam’s STORIES FROM THE EDGE OF THE SEA reviewed in The Common
Date: December 17, 2025
…In his latest collection Stories from the Edge of the Sea, Andrew Lam delivers work far beyond that narrow definition of the form. The settings are complex. Even a five-page […]
Adela Najarro’s VARIATIONS IN BLUE reviewed in Escape Into Life
Date: December 17, 2025
…Dr. Adela Najarro’s fifth book of poetry, Variations in Blue, is bright blue, black and blue, with dark reaching light. This bicultural-bilingual author “stands on the edge of volcanoes” to […]