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: […]
News & Reviews
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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 […]
An Episode with Kim Dower on Writer to Writer KRBX Radio Boise
Date: July 8, 2025
Writer to Writer, a monthly radio show airs on the first Sunday of each month on Radio Boise’s Stray Theater. The show is hosted by Rebecca Evans and Ken Rodgers. […]
Thank you, Massachusetts Review, for this great shout out for Elise Paschen’s latest collection!
Date: July 8, 2025
Elise Paschen’s latest collection is Blood Wolf Moon, our from Red Hen. Her poem “Heritage” appeared in our A GATHERING OF NATIVE VOICES issue back in 2020…
April Ossmann’s WE Featured in The Washington Post’s Newsletter
Date: July 7, 2025
April Ossmann, a former executive director of Alice James Books, has published a timely collection simply and optimistically called “We.” It’s a stirring effort to heal America’s deadly political conflicts with […]
The Orange County Register’s 33 New Books You’ll Want To Read This Summer From Independent Publishers: ANGEL EYE by Madeleine Nakamura
Date: July 7, 2025
It’s the perfect time of the year to celebrate our independents. By that, we mean independent presses — the small publishers powered by literary true believers, committed to putting out curated works that […]
ANGEL EYE by Madeleine Nakamura Featured in Book Riot’s List of The 6 Best Dark Academia Books for Romance Readers
Date: July 1, 2025
Dark academia and romance is a genre mash-up that’s meant to be. The heightened suspense gives characters a reason to rely on each other and form close bonds… if they […]
Peter Ulrich Recalls the First European Tour of Dead Can Dance with The Quietus
Date: June 30, 2025
In an exclusive extract from his book, Drumming with Dead Can Dance: and Parallel Adventures, former Dead Can Dance drummer Peter Ulrich looks back at an almost fateful mishap in […]
Reviews:
Far Afield
Date: December 3, 2010
http://community.livejournal.com/asianamlitfans/85138.html
Los Angeles Times Review for Kim Dower’s Air Kissing on Mars
Date: November 16, 2010
"Sensual and evocative, these poems traverse the chaos of everyday life with a light touch that can turn ironic and edgy without you even noticing it. Some are lyrical snapshots […]
Oregonian Review for Kim Dower’s Air Kissing on Mars
Date: November 16, 2010
"Air Kissing on Mars," is a collection that showcases Dower's funny, accessible, sneaky-profound poetry. She's more Billy Collins than John Ashbery and has some of the same sharp Southern California […]
Janice Eidus Review
Date: November 15, 2010
Check out this great review for Janice's newest book!
The Neglected Art and the Young American Poets
Date: November 11, 2010
The Neglected Art and the Young American PoetsJohn CotterA Gringo Like Me by Jennifer L. Knox Soft Skull Press, 2005, 95p, $13.95Lamp of the Body by Maggie Smith Red Hen […]
Texas Review Covers Dennis Must
Date: October 29, 2010
THE TEXAS REVIEW, Volume 30, Numbers 3&4, Fall Winter 2009Dennis Must's second story collection is stunning in its complexity, its variety, and its original, forceful treatment of universal themes. These […]
Island
Date: October 26, 2010
Island, by Jeanette Clough. Los Angeles, CA: Red Hen Press, 2007. Reviewed by Patricia Crane in Poetry International (2010, vol. 15 – 16), pp 399-400.If the physical world is the […]
Review from Cerise Press
Date: September 2, 2010
http://www.cerisepress.com/02/04/a-moral-education-give-eat-and-live-poems-of-avvaiyar
Cortland Review of NO OTHER PARADISE
Date: August 9, 2010
http://www.cortlandreview.com/issue/48/index.html?ref=home
Living With Pain: Cynthia Hogue uses poetry to chronicle her dealing with arthritis””
Date: May 5, 2010