An interview with Khalisa Rae is up on The Poetry Question!
Date: April 22, 2021
Khalisa Rae is one of those electrifying speakers you hear about. There’s just something riveting about her work on and off the page. Read it here!
News & Reviews
News:
South Pasadena High School Drama Students Read Poet Ron Koertge’s Crowdsourced Poem!
Date: April 22, 2021
To celebrate National Poetry Month, South Pasadena residents of all ages contributed to a crowdsourced community poem, which City of South Pasadena Poet Laureate Ron Koertge wove together into one […]
Khalisa Rae featured on Lit Hub!
Date: April 21, 2021
The Southern writing tradition has always been the fertile ground for fire. Dry weeds exist, yet the soil is rich. For me, the South is a living, breathing thing: a […]
Elise Paschen, author of THE NIGHTLIFE, interviewed on Indian Country Today
Date: April 21, 2021
The Tree Agreement For National Poetry Month listen to Osage poet Elise Paschen read one her incredible poems. Watch the interview here!
Four Red Hen poets with new books out this month featured on Mercurius Magazine!
Date: April 21, 2021
Happy National Poetry Month from Red Hen Press! Our next collaboration with Mercurius Magazine features four poems from collections published by Red Hen this April. Read the poems here!
Q&A from UC Davis with Sadie Hoagland, upcoming author of STRANGE CHILDREN!
Date: April 20, 2021
Examining Beliefs by Jocelyn Anderson | Apr 19, 2021 | Alumni Authors, Culture In her debut novel, Sadie Hoagland, M.A. ’09, tells a fictional story of faith, cruelty and redemption through eight adolescent narrators. Strange Children (Red […]
Sadie Hoagland’s “Best Books Narrated by Ghosts” snippet.
Date: April 20, 2021
The Books I Picked & Why Written by Sadie Hoagland Beloved By Toni Morrison Why this book? I cannot talk about ghosts in books with pausing to give homage to […]
Jennifer Risher, author of WE NEED TO TALK, is featured on Rational Reminder podcast!
Date: April 19, 2021
Jennifer Risher is the author of “We Need to Talk: A Memoir About Wealth” which tells her story and explores the impact of wealth on identity, relationships, and sense of […]
MOON JAR author Didi Jackson’s “Bobolink” featured in Poem-a-Day!
Date: April 19, 2021
Read the poem here!
Khalisa Rae featured in The Chronicle!
Date: April 19, 2021
On April 17 at the Hayti Heritage Center, seven slam poets competed for a coveted spot on the 2021 Bull City Slam Team. These poets are a part of the […]
Reviews:
The Gay & Lesbian Review/Worldwide features review of Artem Mozgovoy’s SPRING IN SIBERIA in their November-December 2023 issue!
Date: November 15, 2023
SPRING IN SIBERIA: A Novel by Artem MozgovoyRed Hen Press. 256 pages, $18.95 Alexey put on layers of clothes, readying himself for the long winter walk in deep Siberia to […]
Madeleine Nakamura’s fantasy novel CURSEBREAKERS described as “guiding us into the next age of the fantasy world” by Ahmad Nazir for Gulf News!
Date: November 6, 2023
“In Cursebreakers, Madeleine Nakamura delivers a thought-provoking exploration of curses and blessings all within the framework of a captivating fantasy world. It is a rare gem in the fantasy genre […]
David Nikki Crouse’s I’M HERE and TROUBLE WILL SAVE YOU reviewed by Anchorage Daily News!
Date: October 30, 2023
The publication of two books in one year is either an impressive achievement or a fluke of timing. Whichever the case may be, David Nikki Crouse’s short and shorter fictions […]
Reconciling Life’s Pain & Love: A Review of WHAT SMALL SOUND by Francesca Bell
Date: October 26, 2023
How can we exist within, and navigate our way through, a world where the deepest beauty is inextricably linked to the darkest ugliness? Francesca Bell’s unflinching second collection of poetry, […]
MAPPING THE SURREAL: A CONVERSATION WITH SUSAN RICH
Date: October 19, 2023
Susan Rich’s eighth book, Blue Atlas, is forthcoming from Red Hen Press (April 2, 2024). Gallery of Postcards and Maps: New and Selected Poems (Salmon Poetry) and Demystifying the Manuscript: Essays and Interviews for […]
Episode 116: The Gathered Congregation
Date: October 17, 2023
Poets Jason Schneiderman, Cate Marvin, R. A. Villanueva, Lynn Xu and Rachel Zucker consider the pleasures, challenges, eccentricities and value of live, in-person poetry readings. These musings are followed by […]
Review of Kim Dower’s I WORE THIS DRESS TODAY FOR YOU, MOM featured in Jewish Book Council!
Date: October 11, 2023
Many American Jews are unaffiliated with Judaism. Some do not observe Jewish rituals in any regular way; others might not worship at all. And yet Jewishness still pervades their lives: […]
“tender gravity”–a gem of a book by Marybeth Holleman
Date: October 10, 2023
Marybeth Holleman’s book tender gravity was my companion on a recent hike in Avalanche Canyon in Grand Teton National Park, and what fine company it was, contributing to the feeling of well-being […]
23 Must-Read Books that Will Transform How You Think about Food and the World
Date: October 10, 2023
This fall, Food Tank is recommending 23 books that can broaden and deepen everyone’s understanding of food systems and the power of storytelling. Books like Taras Grescoe’s The Lost Supper, Sarah Lohman’s Endangered Eating, […]
Jaya Savige at Times Literary Supplement calls PACIFIC LIGHT by David Mason “a home-seeking voice, lured by the Pacific”
Date: September 25, 2023
In Pacific Light, David Mason’s eighth collection of poems, we find the former Poet Laureate of Colorado newly settled in Tasmania, weighing the “titanic volumes of air” between “here and Patagonia” […]