Kim Stafford poem featured in Poets.org
Date: May 3, 2022
News & Reviews
News:
I WORE THIS DRESS TODAY FOR YOU, MOM author Kim Dower discusses her relationship with her mom in Oprah Daily!
Date: May 2, 2022
My lifelong relationship with poetry began at five with my mother’s reading A.A. Milne’s Now We Are Six—“They’re changing guard at Buckingham Palace/Christopher Robin went down with Alice” to me, which […]
Frederick Morgan’s EPILOGUE selected as a Critic’s Pick in the New Criterion
Date: May 2, 2022
Frederick Morgan, Epilogue: Selected and Last Poems, edited by Paula Deitz (Red Hen Press): “Fred Morgan managed to have three distinguished literary careers,” we noted in our pages at the time of his […]
QUESTIONS FROM OUTER SPACE author Diane Thiel’s poem featured in The Common!
Date: May 2, 2022
SUBDUCTION author Kristen Millares Young interviewed by Bomb Magazine!
Date: May 2, 2022
I met Kristen Millares Young at Fort Worden, an Indigenous gathering place taken by the federal government, which installed concrete bunkers in the cliffs overlooking Salish Sea. Decommissioned for military […]
Carlos Allende’s COFFEE, SHOPPING, MURDER, LOVE included in Independent Book Review “45 Books We’re Excited About”!
Date: May 2, 2022
A campy dark comedy for the angry and the disenchanted.
Charles Harper Webb featured article in Psychology Today!
Date: April 21, 2022
Tess Taylor featured poem in The Nation!
Date: April 21, 2022
Amy Shearn’s UNSEEN CITY listed as one of Early Bird Books’ “Best Book Club Books!”
Date: April 14, 2022
Shout out to all the book clubs: Don’t let this be the winter of your discontent! There are so many good books out there just waiting to be embraced this […]
GHOST IN A BLACK GIRL’S THROAT author Khalisa Rae wins Best Poet at the Appalachian Arts and Entertainment Awards!
Date: April 13, 2022
CONGRATULATIONS, Khalisa, on a well-deserved win! For the full list of winners, click below!
Reviews:
Joanne Skerrett’s ISLAND MAN featured in Kirkus Reviews!
Date: June 22, 2023
A man revisits his unconventional relationship with his father. This book begins in the wake of loss as narrator Hector Peterson points out that he and his father, Winston Telemacque, […]
Francesca Bell’s WHAT SMALL SOUND reviewed by Colorado State University
Date: June 12, 2023
Many of the poems in Bell’s second full-length book explore suffering and sadness through a very personal lens: terrifying moments of objectification and sexual violation; the desolation and isolation that […]
Phuong T. Vuong’s A PLUCKED ZITHER featured in Soapberry Review
Date: June 6, 2023
In this work of poetry, Vuong unbinds what gets lost while carrying the aftermath from Vietnamese voices that have been longing to breathe after the disruption from wars, migration, and […]
PACIFIC LIGHT by David Mason featured in Review 31
Date: June 6, 2023
A strong poetic sensibility is combined with a successful conversational style in several insightful accounts of familiar situations, like seeing people in airports that one thinks one knows (‘Long Haul’), […]
The Seattle Times recommends Amber Flame’s APOCRIFA among ‘5 new books from LGBTQ+ authors to read this Pride month’!
Date: June 6, 2023
As we enter another Pride month, it feels as though 2023 has been one of the toughest legislative years for LGBTQ+ folks in a long time. As we witness and […]
Peninsula Clarion’s Off the Shelf recommends H Warren’s BINDED!
Date: June 6, 2023
I’ve always found poetry a bit intimidating. Sometimes I think I know where one is going, then out of nowhere I’m thrown for a loop and left puzzled with a […]
Kirkus Reviews features Laila Halaby’s THE WEIGHT OF GHOSTS!
Date: June 5, 2023
The illegitimate daughter of a white mother and a Jordanian father, Halaby, author of two novels and two collections of poetry, felt that she was a “fiction…squished between other people’s […]
Ann Poore reviews Katharine Coles’ GHOST APPLES for 15 Bytes!
Date: June 1, 2023
Ghost Apples, the ninth collection of poems by Katharine Coles – who might be a witch (IMHO) given the ready way she connects with animals (including her parrot Henri, pronounced […]
VerseCurious reviews Phuong T. Vuong’s A PLUCKED ZITHER!
Date: June 1, 2023
I review Phuong T. Vuong’s A Plucked Zither, from Red Hen Press (June 6, 2023). Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/versecurious/donations
Francesca Bell’s WHAT SMALL SOUND receives a Starred Review from Shelf Awareness!
Date: May 23, 2023
Francesca Bell (Bright Stain) writes poems that chime like the bell of her own name: bright but resonant, sharp but still familiar, lush and likely to echo long after its […]