Douglas Manuel, author of TROUBLE FUNK, was featured on the Think Humanities Podcast!
Date: April 26, 2023
News & Reviews
News:
LitHub features Douglas Manuel, author of TROUBLE FUNK!
Date: April 26, 2023
By Diana Arterian The poet Douglas Manuel’s debut poetry collection Testify follows the topic so many of us (this poet included) attend to first: family. Testify attended to the stark realities of Manuel’s childhood […]
Five Red Hen poets featured in Ms. Magazine article, ‘Reads for the Rest of Us: The Best Poetry of the Last Year’!
Date: April 25, 2023
Each month, I provide Ms. readers with a list of new books being published by writers from historically excluded groups. The aims of these lists are threefold: I want to do my […]
Greg Fasolino recommends Peter Ulrich’s DRUMMING WITH DEAD CAN DANCE!
Date: April 11, 2023
“Yesterday my wife and I watched the Dead Can Dance live DVD “Toward the Within,” filmed on their 1993 American tour. I’d seen them prior in 1990, and then again […]
Red Hen Poets William Archila, THE GRAVEDIGGER’S ARCHAELOGY author, and T’ai Freedom Ford, author of HOW TO GET OVER, were selected as 2023 Jack Hazard Fellows!
Date: April 5, 2023
Jack Hazard ‘23 Fellows are writers of fiction, creative nonfiction, or memoir. The $5,000 fellowship is awarded in support of an ongoing project. The goal is to reward and incentivize […]
A poem from William Archila, author of THE GRAVEDIGGER’S ARCHAEOLOGY, was published in Protean Magazine!
Date: April 5, 2023
“Scholars say El Salvador” by William Archila Scholars say El Salvador fits the cliché of a Latin American country;broke, pocket-size, but applauded in aristocracy. It’s your typicalbanana republic, except there […]
David Mas Masumoto’s SECRET HARVESTS featured in Alta Journal’s “16 New Books for April”!
Date: April 4, 2023
During the Japanese American internment, Masumoto’s family was separated from a female relative with a mental disability, and after the war, they presumed she had died. Seventy years later, the […]
Marybeth Holleman, author of TENDER GRAVITY, interviewed in Cirque Journal!
Date: April 3, 2023
It has rarely ever been a lucrative time to be a writer, yet within every epoch and era, it has always been necessary to write. I first met the writer […]
David Mas Masumoto discusses SECRET HARVESTS in Civil Eats interview!
Date: March 28, 2023
In his new book, the Japanese American peach farmer unearths his family’s painful, hidden history and explores its impact on his identity. In everything David Mas Masumoto does, from pruning […]
Salon features article by Juliana Lamy, author of YOU WERE WATCHING FROM THE SAND, on the Haitian zombie and its origins!
Date: March 21, 2023
For all that they are meant to – and do – induce a skin-prickling alarm, the fungal zombies that populate HBO’s “The Last of Us” rely on a stunning optical extravagance that […]
Reviews:
Poems You Need Podcast shares excerpts from BLUE ATLAS by Susan Rich
Date: July 1, 2024
Two poets read and review poems from Susan Rich’s poetry collection, BLUE ATLAS.
Kirkus Review of Aliah Wright’s Upcoming Debut Novel, NOW YOU OWE ME!
Date: June 27, 2024
Kirkus Review writes, “Wright explores the ravages of psychopathy on society through the lives of two young killers. The Zanetti twins, Benjamin and Corinthia, are marked by violence from an […]
Bookmonger: The negative capability of poets
Date: June 25, 2024
”Negative capability” was initially described by 18th-century English poet John Keats as a poet’s way of living with uncertainty, or with openness to competing moods. In two recently published volumes, […]
Tinderbox Poetry’s Sarah K. Carey Reviews BLUE ATLAS by Susan Rich
Date: June 25, 2024
In her latest book, Blue Atlas, newly released from Red Hen Press, award-winning Washington poet Susan Rich confronts and chronicles her world before, during and after an abortion she underwent as […]
Anchorage Daily News reviews Jennifer Brice’s ANOTHER NORTH
Date: June 24, 2024
It used to be said that “essays don’t sell, nobody wants to read them.” That was never really true, and, in the hands of a gifted writer like Jennifer Brice, […]
Jen Ryland reviews D.C. Frost’s A PUNISHING BREED
Date: June 10, 2024
“DC Frost does an artful job of weaving in current campus social issues, juggling multiple suspects, and giving us a peek into the tense relationship between the two men who […]
Los Angeles Daily News Names DC Frost’s A PUNISHING BREED on their summer book list
Date: June 6, 2024
LA Daily News adds A PUNISHING BREED by DC Frost to their list of 10 summer books from LA authors!
Coco Picard’s novel THE HEALING CIRCLE reviewed by Anna Searle Jones for Portable Gray Review
Date: June 4, 2024
A problem with circles is that they can be traps. Acupuncture, yoga, LSD, past-life regressions, pole dancing, psychic surgery, “special tea”: these are just some of the therapies sampled by […]
E.P. Tuazon’s A PROFESSIONAL LOLA receives a Starred Review from Shelf Awareness!
Date: May 29, 2024
“E.P. Tuazon’s collection of short stories A Professional Lola is a poignant, sly examination of their diasporic Filipino American community, told through interactions with extended family, intimate friends, adoptive/adaptive cultural clashes, and, […]
DC Frost’s A PUNISHING BREED Reviewed by Library Journal
Date: May 23, 2024
Library Journal has a new, exciting review on novel A PUNISHING BREED by DC Frost. Subscribe to Library Journal to read the full review!