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:
Tess Taylor’s RIFT ZONE featured in Magma Literary Magazine!
Date: December 2, 2021
A CAMERA OBSCURA, by Carl Marcum, reviewed for Pedestal Magazine!
Date: November 23, 2021
Just as the James West Space Telescope (the J.W.S.T.) is about to supersede the Hubble Telescope (offering the difference between myopia and 20-20 vision, at least when it comes to […]
Thea Prieto’s FROM THE CAVES is a staff pick at Bear Pond Books!
Date: November 18, 2021
A fantastic novella of literary merit about a small family living in a cave after the climate apocalypse. Told in language that sings from the point of view of Sky, […]
THE BOOK OF TIMOTHY Featured in New York Journal of Books!
Date: November 15, 2021
“Wilson has created a panoramic saga of cruelty, injustice, loyalty, and devotion. This is a heartbreaking, loving, moving story told by a sister, daughter, mother, woman who demands and deserves […]
Anchorage Daily News Features THE BOOK OF TIMOTHY Review!
Date: November 15, 2021
Sexual abuse of children by clergy is once more in the news. Last month, a new report estimated that some 330,000 French children were abused by Catholic clergy and other […]
THE BOOK OF TIMOTHY Reviewed in New York Journal of Books!
Date: November 15, 2021
“Wilson has created a panoramic saga of cruelty, injustice, loyalty, and devotion. This is a heartbreaking, loving, moving story told by a sister, daughter, mother, woman who demands and deserves […]
AMERICAN BASTARD by Jan Beatty reviewed in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette!
Date: November 9, 2021
“As an adoptee, one of the toughest things is the idea of shifting identities,” writes Jan Beatty in “American Bastard: A Memoir.”” “No one is who they say they are: […]
FROM THE CAVES by Thea Prieto reviewed in Diagram 21.5!
Date: November 2, 2021
Being an elder millennial (see: I refuse to use the term ‘geriatric’), I’ve come to accept that I no longer know any of the cool lingo that the kids these […]
AMERICAN BASTARD by Jan Beatty reviewed in On the Seawall!
Date: November 2, 2021
Any baby, let alone a bastard baby, is born a mystery, and babies don’t come with directions. But Jan Beatty’s iconoclastic memoir American Bastard does come with directions. Here is […]
Marie Tozier’s poetry book OPEN THE DARK featured in a review for First Alaskans!
Date: October 20, 2021
The strong, measured, and contemplative voice in Open the Dark, a debut collection of forty-two lyric poems, belongs to poet Marie Tozier (Inupiaq/Puerto Rican.) The book’s release in August 2020, at the […]