Majid Naficy Reads His Works LIVE at the Santa Monica Library
Date: September 4, 2025
The Red Hen Press poet, Majid Naficy recently read a few of his works at the Santa Monica Library!
News & Reviews
News:
Lara Ehrlich’s BIND ME TIGHTER STILL featured in Chicago Review’s Must-Read September Book List
Date: September 2, 2025
Bind Me Tighter Still follows mother and daughter mermaids who flee back to the ocean after the mother gives up her legs to be with her first love. Arriving at a […]
Washington Independent Interviews Nancy Kricorian on THE BURNING HEART OF THE WORLD
Date: August 26, 2025
The writer brings stories from across the Armenian diaspora to the page. The Burning Heart of the World, by New York-based novelist Nancy Kricorian, is a poignant coming-of-age story set […]
David Mas Masumoto’s farm featured in CBS News; Author of SECRET HARVESTS
Date: August 26, 2025
The peaches harvested at Masumoto Family Farm in California’s Central Valley are so delicious, they are sought after by world-famous restaurants. But this year’s harvest signals trouble: There are 30% […]
BIND ME TIGHTER STILL by Lara Ehrlich featured in Boston University’s Alumni Magazine
Date: August 12, 2025
This debut novel by a former BU senior editor-writer focuses on Ceto, a siren who tried mermaid life and married life and found both wanting. Now, she runs the Sirenland roadside attraction, […]
Red Hen’s Writing in the Schools Creative Writing Camp featured in PASADENA NOW!
Date: July 24, 2025
Huge thanks to Deane Serrano for this wonderful write-up of WITS HQ and the beautiful quotes from Red Hen’s Events Coordinator and WITS HQ organizer Piper Gourley!
Two Poems by Abi Pollokoff in Seattle Met
Date: July 24, 2025
particular reminders when prayers for the body aren’t enough when dusty purple fruits breathe inthe sunsets & smog of their cityscapes: […]
The Verse Daily Feature of DARK SUITE FOR MY COUNTRY by April Ossmann!
Date: July 22, 2025
Dark Suite for My Country I. Dark as an overcast night,licorice, ink, ravens, outer space.Let me see the beautyin crows mowing silencelike hundred rusty tractors,or a crowd […]
Meet Wisconsin’s Newest Poet Laureate Brenda Cárdenas: Milwaukee Magazine
Date: July 17, 2025
As Wisconsin’s newest poet laureate, Brenda Cárdenas is traveling around the state with a mission: inspiring creativity through ekphrastic poetry. This form of poetry invites people to pen a creative response to […]
Rebecca Chase Featured on Lit Hub: A Daughter’s Journey to Japan In Search of Closure
Date: July 16, 2025
In the window seat in economy class, I turn my face to the glass so the woman next to me can pretend she doesn’t notice that I’m crying. She’s sitting […]
Reviews:
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 […]
Hyperallergic reviews Didi Jackson’s MY INFINITY
Date: September 17, 2024
If Hilma af Klint’s monumental paintings could speak, what would they say? Didi Jackson answers this with a resonant collection of poems, several written from the perspective of the Swedish […]
The Florida Review Online reviews Didi Jackson’s MY INFINITY
Date: September 16, 2024
“Didi Jackson’s second collection of poems, My Infinity, is a quiet, pensive reckoning with life and death by a speaker uniquely suited to discuss such enigmatic subjects.”
Poetry Foundation reviews Didi Jackson’s MY INFINITY
Date: September 10, 2024
In Didi Jackson’s My Infinity, the “Northern sky stands so straight, / it uses the largest pines for crutches;” “The moon’s marias emerge / like age spots, monochromatic and ashy;” and […]
Kirkus reviews Christian Teresi’s WHAT MONSTERS YOU MAKE OF THEM
Date: September 9, 2024
“A cogent, skeptical collection that examines those whose stories are erased or preserved.”
Shelf Awareness reviews Eunice Hong’s MEMENTO MORI
Date: September 3, 2024
Eunice Hong’s exquisite debut Memento Mori won the 2021 Red Hen Press Fiction Award, chosen by judge Aimee Liu. Hong’s simple, well-worn opening line, “Once upon a time,” belies an intricate narrative […]
Library Journal reviews Percival Everett’s SONNETS FOR A MISSING KEY
Date: August 28, 2024
“VERDICT For enthusiasts of Percival’s writing”
Chicago Review of Books reviews Eunice Hong’s MEMENTO MORI
Date: August 26, 2024
“Our narrator’s story is painful and heart-breaking, a story of all we wish we could forget, a story of continuing to live even when you feel you don’t deserve it.”
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY features Percival Everett’s SONNETS FOR A MISSING KEY in THE MUST LIST!
Date: August 26, 2024
Thanks to Ryan Coleman, who wrote “Your favorite writer’s writer, Percival Everett, is now everyone’s fave thanks to American Fiction, the Oscar-nominated film adaptation of his book Erasure. His latest, a lyrical book of […]