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:
Review of Lena Khalaf Tuffaha’s WATER & SALT
Date: April 24, 2017
"Tuffaha’s poems are required reading material for any Arab-American literature list, and for all Americans whose knowledge of the Middle East ends at what the media reports." Lena Khalaf Tuffaha's […]
Fiction Writers Review Interview with Siel Ju
Date: April 17, 2017
Congratulations to Siel Ju on this amazing interview with Fiction Writers Review! "It?s interesting, because it didn?t really occur to me that my stories were so much about sex until […]
Library Journal review of Lena Tuffaha’s Water & Salt
Date: April 6, 2017
Of Palestinian, Jordanian, and Syrian heritage, Tuffaha offers a beautifully crafted debut that uses clear, observant language to explore the immigrant experience and the burdens of ongoing war. As she […]
Library Journal (starred review) of t’ai freedom ford’s how to get over!
Date: April 6, 2017
Winner of the Feminist Wires inaugural poetry contest, ford debuts with a fiery collection that uses language both evocatively rich and colloquially sharp and sly to capture the African American […]
Verónica Reyes Presents Poetry from Bordered Lives
Date: April 3, 2017
The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh praises Verónica Reyes for her collection of poetry. "Verónica Reyes charges her lines—nearly every single one—with the sharp electricity of her East L.A. tongue. It’s […]
Portland Press Herald’ Reviews Ellen Meeropol’s ‘Kinship of Clover’
Date: April 3, 2017
"All good stories turn on conflict, but there is a plethora of discord and tension in ?Kinship of Clover.? At times, it almost overwhelms the story, requiring attentive reading so […]
Cake Time receives STARRED REVIEW by Kirkus!
Date: January 24, 2017
CAKE TIME [STARRED REVIEW!] Author: Siel Ju Review Issue Date: February 1, 2017 Online Publish Date: January 23, 2017 Publisher:Red Hen Press Pages: 192 Price ( Paperback ): $15.95 Publication […]
Barrelhouse Reviews Sings Praises
Date: September 8, 2016
Barrelhouse says Rozema's essays are "humble, honest, insightful, and, like the best essays on any topic, but especially ones tinged with spirituality, they aren’t too sure about any one thing. […]
After the Dam review from Kirkus
Date: June 30, 2016
"Taut, beautifully written, and suspenseful, this resonant, feminist drama eschews easy answers. A page-turner of the highest caliber." Kirkus details the book's plot points, setting, and themes
Kirkus gives The Currawongs a Mighty review
Date: June 30, 2016
“Delightful. . . . A nimble and very funny collection of stories from a writer who clearly values the human condition in all its myriad forms.” Check out the observant […]