Two Poems by Abi Pollokoff in Seattle Met
Date: July 24, 2025
particular reminders when prayers for the body aren’t enough when dusty purple fruits breathe inthe sunsets & smog of their cityscapes: […]
News & Reviews
News:
The Verse Daily Feature of DARK SUITE FOR MY COUNTRY by April Ossmann!
Date: July 22, 2025
Dark Suite for My Country I. Dark as an overcast night,licorice, ink, ravens, outer space.Let me see the beautyin crows mowing silencelike hundred rusty tractors,or a crowd […]
Meet Wisconsin’s Newest Poet Laureate Brenda Cárdenas: Milwaukee Magazine
Date: July 17, 2025
As Wisconsin’s newest poet laureate, Brenda Cárdenas is traveling around the state with a mission: inspiring creativity through ekphrastic poetry. This form of poetry invites people to pen a creative response to […]
Rebecca Chase Featured on Lit Hub: A Daughter’s Journey to Japan In Search of Closure
Date: July 16, 2025
In the window seat in economy class, I turn my face to the glass so the woman next to me can pretend she doesn’t notice that I’m crying. She’s sitting […]
An Episode with Kim Dower on Writer to Writer KRBX Radio Boise
Date: July 8, 2025
Writer to Writer, a monthly radio show airs on the first Sunday of each month on Radio Boise’s Stray Theater. The show is hosted by Rebecca Evans and Ken Rodgers. […]
Thank you, Massachusetts Review, for this great shout out for Elise Paschen’s latest collection!
Date: July 8, 2025
Elise Paschen’s latest collection is Blood Wolf Moon, our from Red Hen. Her poem “Heritage” appeared in our A GATHERING OF NATIVE VOICES issue back in 2020…
April Ossmann’s WE Featured in The Washington Post’s Newsletter
Date: July 7, 2025
April Ossmann, a former executive director of Alice James Books, has published a timely collection simply and optimistically called “We.” It’s a stirring effort to heal America’s deadly political conflicts with […]
The Orange County Register’s 33 New Books You’ll Want To Read This Summer From Independent Publishers: ANGEL EYE by Madeleine Nakamura
Date: July 7, 2025
It’s the perfect time of the year to celebrate our independents. By that, we mean independent presses — the small publishers powered by literary true believers, committed to putting out curated works that […]
ANGEL EYE by Madeleine Nakamura Featured in Book Riot’s List of The 6 Best Dark Academia Books for Romance Readers
Date: July 1, 2025
Dark academia and romance is a genre mash-up that’s meant to be. The heightened suspense gives characters a reason to rely on each other and form close bonds… if they […]
Peter Ulrich Recalls the First European Tour of Dead Can Dance with The Quietus
Date: June 30, 2025
In an exclusive extract from his book, Drumming with Dead Can Dance: and Parallel Adventures, former Dead Can Dance drummer Peter Ulrich looks back at an almost fateful mishap in […]
Reviews:
Dale Van Every Reviews Silverstein and Me
Date: January 12, 2010
Although it saw extended periods of minimal contact, one of the friendships that lasted a lifetime for Silverstein was with childhood pal and fellow cartoonist Marv Gold. Gold’s recent memoir, […]
Deborah Bogen Reviews Cartographies
Date: January 12, 2010
Cartographies: Uncollected Poems: 1980-2005, by Maurya Simon (Red Hen Press, 2008)The cover of Cartographies is a photograph of a bronze by New Mexican sculptor, Katherine Wells. It’s a female torso […]
Susanna Roxman Review of Ghost Orchid
Date: January 12, 2010
Ghost Orchid by Maurya Simon, Red Hen Press, USA, 80 pp., ISBN 1-888996-84-6 In earlier poetry collections, such as The Golden Labyrinth (University of Missouri Press, 1995), set in India, […]
Stephen Windwalker Reviews Safe Suicide
Date: January 12, 2010
Preview Stephen Windwalker's review of Safe Suicide, a memoir from Dewitt Henry.
Profile of John Bowers
Date: January 7, 2010
Chronogram Magazine (Dec. 09 issue.) Profile and Review of Love in Tennessee
Author Tom Pruiksma reads at Vashon Bookshop
Date: December 19, 2009
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Tennessee Waltz: John Bowers Looks Homeward
Date: December 16, 2009
Chronogram Magazine reveiws Love in TennesseeTennessee WaltzJohn Bowers Looks Homewardby Nina Shengold and photographs by Jennifer May, November 25, 2009American literature has its own railroad map, with tracks that meander […]
Illuminating Fiction reviewed in Publishers Weekly
Date: December 8, 2009
Among the 19 authors Ellis interviewed for this book, there are two points of consensus. Almost all of the interviewees call revision the most essential element of successful writing, and […]
Marjorie Maddox’s review on BookMarks
Date: November 28, 2009
“Indeed, as Timothy Green claims in Hiking Alone, perhaps all we ever want is a little darkness to climb out of. In American Fractal, he provides the dark, the light, […]
Barbara Crooker’s review in Mid-American Review
Date: November 28, 2009
Opening Timothy Green’s first full-length collection is like entering a fun house and stepping into the room where distorted mirrors reflect back into themselves ad infinitum. The concept of the […]