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 […]
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 […]
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.
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.
Date: April 23, 2024
In this Episode Lol and Budgie talk to Peter Ulrich about ‘The Need and The Desire to Hold Things Together!’
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 […]
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 […]
Date: April 15, 2024
April 15, 2024 — The Society of Midland Authors today announced its annual awards, honoring its choices for the best books by Midwest authors published in 2023. In each category, […]
Date: April 15, 2024
I was listening to NPR, watching my kids swim in the bay, their shining heads bobbing in the light-studded water when I heard the news about the tragic death of […]
Date: April 15, 2024
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: March 16, 2020
and a timely ghazal from Tasmania
Date: March 16, 2020
“As with all of the best books of poems, read it until it is wrecked.”
Date: March 16, 2020
Mike Marshall Wilson of Necessary Fiction provided a glowing review of Siel Ju’s CAKE TIME here, praising the novel-in-stories as “an irresistible read with tonal payoffs that are at times momentous […]
Date: March 16, 2020
Huge thanks to author Melissa Grunow for writing a wonderful review of CIRCADIAN on The Coil. As she puts it, “Clammers vital essays challenge everything we know as true & scientific, […]
Date: March 16, 2020
Elissa Washuta met up with Rich Smith of City Arts Magazine last week to discuss her upcoming memoir My Body Is a Book of Rules. Of the memoir, Smith states, “My Body Is […]
Date: March 16, 2020
Roberto Bonazzi of My San Antonio reviewed Lena Khalaf Tuffaha’s WATER & SALT, saying “Tuffaha’s collection is an extraordinary debut.” Thanks, Roberto!
Date: March 16, 2020
Appetite Jean-Mark Sens. Red Hen (CDC, dist.), $11.95 (98p) ISBN 1-888996-98-6 Jean-Mark Sens serves us a world that we thought we knew. Each of Sens’ lines twists the lens of […]
Date: March 16, 2020
“In her debut collection, Brown weaves poetic phrases to take her readers on a journey that satisfies from the initiation to the conclusion, as she enlightens about the dysfunctional yet […]
Date: March 16, 2020
Rain Taxi Review of Books, Vol. 13 No.4, Winter 2008/2009: Greg Sanders’s prose will make you wake up and smell the latte, the Rioja, or maybe the gourmet cat food (“Hearty […]
Date: March 16, 2020
Poet Veronica Reyes’ collection, Chopper! Copper! was recently featured on Advocate.com’s list of “10 Great LGBT Summer Reads.” Check out the full list and Veronica’s feature here!
