The National Features a Poem by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
Date: January 19, 2022
News & Reviews
News:
Buzzfeed News Features I ONLY CRY WITH EMOTICONS!
Date: January 19, 2022
Thea Prieto talks FROM THE CAVES and a changing world with Lily Brooks-Dalton in an interview for Ecotheo Collective!
Date: January 18, 2022
Ursula K. Le Guin once wrote “Science fiction is not predictive; it is descriptive,” and back in 2016, when Lily Brooks-Dalton’s post-apocalyptic novel Good Morning, Midnight (Penguin Random House) was […]
GHOST IN A BLACK GIRL’S THROAT and gossypiin featured in Book Riot!
Date: January 18, 2022
Jim Peterson talks about THE SADNESS OF WHIRLWINDS on Fall For the Book Podcast!
Date: January 11, 2022
Jim Peterson takes readers on a surreal journey in his short story collection The Sadness of Whirlwinds. In this first episode of the 2022 season of The Fall for the […]
Jennifer Risher discusses her 14-year memoir WE NEED TO TALK: A MEMOIR ABOUT WEALTH, in her new podcast on Apple!
Date: January 5, 2022
There’s a ancient saying that money is not so much the problem; it’s the love of money that causes the trouble. There’s another truth about the topic: It’s really hard […]
Kristen Millares Young author of SUBDUCTION, joins three other authors in conversation about the body in KUOW!
Date: January 5, 2022
This conversation is wide ranging, touching on health and the internal experiences of having a body, as well as the external forces and cruelty that can impact the body. Our […]
Check out David Mason’s, author of THE SOUND: NEW & SELECTED POEMS, new article on LA Review of Books!
Date: January 4, 2022
MY FATHER’S PAINT BOX was made of leather-covered wood, worn at the corners so the wood showed through. As a child, I loved opening that box, looking at the inner […]
The Playwright’s House was a staff pick as a favorite 2021 read from WBUR!
Date: January 4, 2022
Tomorrow is Christmas Eve and for some of us, it ushers in a period of time away from work. Couple that with omicron forcing many of us inside and away […]
Red Hen Poet Cynthia Hogue Selected as Guest Editor for the Academy American Poets Poem-a-Day!
Date: December 15, 2021
The Academy of American Poets is pleased to announce twelve new Poem-a-Day guest editors who will each curate a month of poems in 2022. The guest editors are all award-winning […]
Reviews:
The Washington Post recommended Kim Dower’s new collection WHAT SHE WANTS
Date: January 22, 2025
Book critic Ron Charles recommended Kim Dower’s new collection, What She Wants, in the Washington Post Book Club and included the poem ‘Longing’ in the weekly selection.
THE NEW YORK TIMES reviews FOUR Percival Everett Collections!
Date: December 16, 2024
Huge thanks to book critic Dwight Garner for your thorough, generous review of Percival Everett’s poetry collections, including re:f (gesture), The Book of Training by Colonel Hap Thompson, Sonnets for […]
NH Librarians Recommend MEMENTO MORI by Eunice Hong on CHECK THIS OUT at NHPR!
Date: December 12, 2024
This episode of “Check This Out” from New Hampshire Public Radio features local librarians discussing their favorite books of 2024! This to the full episode to hear what they thought […]
The Gay and Lesbian Review reviews Jason Schneiderman’s SELF PORTRAIT OF ICARUS AS A COUNTRY ON FIRE
Date: December 3, 2024
AS A POET AGES, he’s often faced with several choices. He can keep doing what he has always done, or he can, by seriously confronting himself, seek another voice. Jason […]
Publishers Weekly reviews Didi Jackson’s MY INFINITY
Date: November 19, 2024
“I am good with secrets,” Jackson confesses early in her subtle latest (after Moon Jar). She makes good on that statement in poems that detail the secrets of the departed, including […]
Washington Independent Review of Books reviews Didi Jackson’s MY INFINITY
Date: October 31, 2024
In My Infinity (Red Hen Press), Didi Jackson employs a lyrical grace and intimate tone as she seeks transcendence, even while acknowledging that not all wounds may heal. She explores personal concessions […]
World Literature Today reviews Didi Jackson’s MY INFINITY
Date: October 31, 2024
My Infinity is a volume that puts Didi Jackson’s talent on full display. This is only her second poetry volume (the first, Moon Jar, was published in 2020), but it reads like […]
The Manhattan Review reviews Susan Rich’s BLUE ATLAS
Date: October 15, 2024
Blue Atlas is an absorbing and heart-wrenching collection that revolves around the poet’s decision, thirty years back, to have an abortion rather than go full term with an unplanned pregnancy. As […]
Anchorage Daily News reviews Thomas McGuire’s THE CURVE OF EQUAL TIME
Date: October 15, 2024
Book Review: Thomas McGuire’s second novel is as lyrical, intelligent and suspenseful as his first By Nancy Lord Updated: September 14, 2024Published: September 14, 2024 “The Curve of Equal Time” By […]
North of Oxford reviews THE BEARABLE SLANT OF LIGHT by Lynnell Edwards
Date: October 1, 2024
By g emil reutter There is much involved when dealing with mental illness in a family member. There is always the hope for a turnaround, a recovery and in some […]