FLUTTER, KICK By Anna V.Q. Ross Recommended by The Boston Globe
Date: November 7, 2022
Poet Anna V.Q. Ross knows what to leave unsaid, knows the just enough to send the reader’s blood and mind alight.
News & Reviews
News:
Allison Joseph speaks on Lexicon and new book at Bradley University
Date: November 7, 2022
Allison Joseph, a poet of Caribbean descent, visited Bradley on Nov. 3 in the Wyckoff Room of the Cullom-Davis Library to present a reading of her own poems and her […]
Peter Ulrich Interviewed on Afternoon Drive/Coral Rocks Podcast
Date: November 2, 2022
All the way from England, my very special guest drummer/ percussionist Peter Ulrich of Dead Can Dance and The Peter Ulrich Collaboration. Peter has written a new book called “Drumming […]
Cai Emmons, Author of LIVID, Interviewed on WriterCon Podcast!
Date: October 27, 2022
Bestselling authors William Bernhardt and Rene Gutteridge discuss the latest news from the book world, offer writing tips, and interview Cai Emmons, author of two new books this month, Livid […]
KOIN Recommends Yuvi Zalkow’s I ONLY CRY WITH EMOTICONS as a Great Rainy Day Read!
Date: October 25, 2022
“I Only Cry with Emoticons” by Yuvi Zalkow (2022) Portland writer Yuvi Zalkow captures today’s simultaneously awkward and endearing digital age with “I Only Cry With Emoticons.” The novel’s protagonist […]
Poem Series by William Archila in the Los Angeles Review
Date: October 17, 2022
William Archila’s The Gravedigger’s Archaeology won the Letras Latinas/Red Hen Poetry Prize and his first collection The Art of Exile won an International Latino Book Award. He was featured in Spotlight on Hispanic Writers, […]
William Archila featured in the Annulet Poetics Journal
Date: October 17, 2022
“The Colonel” is a poem of witness because it focuses on the human rights violations in El Salvador, but most importantly because it has revealed the ways in which a […]
YOUR NOSTALGIA IS KILLING ME by John Weir Featured in Washington Post’s List of 10 Award-Winning Short Story Collections Worth Reading!
Date: October 17, 2022
Each year, among the new fiction collections fighting for attention are a handful published neither through mainstream houses nor the usual small press alternatives but via a third avenue: book […]
Charles Harper Webb, Author of URSULA LAKE, is Featured on the Book Society Podcast!
Date: October 13, 2022
Poet and novelist Charles Harper Webb and host, Lucas Cantor, discuss THE BEST book Cantor’s read for the show. Fools Crow by James Welch. Listen to this show, Or don’t […]
Cai Emmons, author of LIVID, Interviewed by Fellow Red Hen Author Aimee Liu in LA Review of Books!
Date: October 12, 2022
THROUGHOUT HER LENGTHY writing career, Cai Emmons has returned again and again to the topic of catastrophe. Three of her most recent novels, including her 2022 groundbreaker Unleashed, have wrestled with […]
Reviews:
Anchorage Press: Just to the Side: Reflections on a New Native Novel and Alaska’s Epidemic History
Date: June 4, 2020
Seagulls swoop and dive, crying in the salty air. The waves of Nushagak Bay crash on sandbars and rocky shores. Machines rattle the warehouses on the cannery side of the […]
Kenyon Review: After Rubén
Date: June 4, 2020
A champion of contemporary Latinx poetry, Francisco Aragón returns with his third collection, After Rubén (Red Hen Press). A scholar, translator, and the son of Nicaraguan immigrants, Aragón draws inspiration from the life […]
Shelf Awareness: Moon Jar review
Date: June 4, 2020
In her moving debut collection, poet Didi Jackson creates a poetics of grief to cope with the suicide of her husband. Moon Jar is a testament to resilience. Split into three […]
Historical Novel Society: Glorious Boy
Date: June 3, 2020
1942: Clair and Shep Durant, along with their mute four-year-old son, Ty, wait for evacuation to India before the imminent Japanese invasion of the remote Andaman Islands. Shep, a doctor, […]
Seattle Book Review: Glorious Boy
Date: June 3, 2020
Bound by ambition and a sense of adventure, Claire and Shep Durant journey to the Andaman Islands, a remote part of colonial India, in 1936. They dive deep into their […]
LARB: Wanting to Turn Back Time: On Aimee Liu’s “Glorious Boy”
Date: June 3, 2020
ON THE FRONT COVER of Aimee Liu’s Glorious Boy there is a palm-lined cove under a twilight sky. Unspoiled by modernity, this looks like island escapism, with no indication this is a […]
Asian Review of Books: Glorious Boy by Aimee Liu
Date: June 3, 2020
Channeling some past classics also skeptical of the colonial enterprise, Glorious Boy stands out from the crowded shelves of World War II literature by immersing the reader in one of the remoter […]
Library Journal: Glorious Boy starred review
Date: June 3, 2020
Liu’s eponymous “glorious boy” exists at the intersection of families, communities, countries, cultures—and, for a while, life and death. His spirited, adventurous parents—Shep, a British doctor obsessed with the healing […]
Times Standard: Books and More: New novel set during Vietnam War
Date: June 3, 2020
A newly released novel, “Her Sister’s Tattoo” by Ellen Meeropol, was brought to my attention and it struck a soft spot I thought was long buried. Like so many of you, as […]
Adroit Journal: Father as God and Monster: A Review of Don’t Go Crazy Without Me by Deborah A. Lott
Date: June 3, 2020
Sometimes, you can judge a book by its cover. Consider the cover image for Deborah A. Lott’s memoir Don’t Go Crazy Without Me (Red Hen Press): a chubby adult male dressed in blue velvet […]