Date: November 16, 2020
As editor of SEISMIC:Seattle, City of Literature, I asked artists and storytellers to reflect on what it means for Seattle to be a City of Literature. While celebrating Seattle’s inclusion in […]
Date: November 16, 2020
Join Writers in Progress on December 3rd for a Virtual reading + book launch with three authors, including one Red Hen author Ellen Meeropol!
Date: November 16, 2020
“even if I’m still skeptical that the 1960s qualify as historical fiction! A story of sibling love and tensions set against a backdrop of protests of the Vietnam war.” Listen […]
Date: November 12, 2020
Join us on YouTube for this special streaming installment of our Poetry at The Dalí series. Poetry at The Dalí is an ongoing series hosted by St. Petersburg Poet Laureate, Helen Wallace. Occurring on […]
Date: November 11, 2020
Date: November 11, 2020
When it comes to money-related issues, mum’s the word. Talking about wealth right now couldn’t be more charged. Did you know that 8 out of 10 people who are wealthy […]
Date: November 11, 2020
One of the books I read this year and loved (and keep recommending!) is Kristen Millares Young’s Subduction, set on the Makah Reservation in Neah Bay, Washington. The story follows two […]
Date: November 10, 2020
I met Rebecca McClanahan on Facebook. I have not yet had the pleasure of meeting her in person. I saw the cover of her new memoir in essays: In the […]
Date: November 10, 2020
A PDF of In the Key of New York City: A Memoir in Essays by Rebecca McClanahan sits on my desk, held together with a big clip. The top page […]
Date: November 10, 2020
TBR [to be read] is a semi-regular, invitation-only interview series with authors of newly released/forthcoming, interesting books who will tell us about their new work as well as offer tips […]
Date: May 31, 2013
Ralph Pennel from Rain Taxi Review of Books praises Rodney Wittwer's Gone & Gone.- "Gone & Gone both transports and transforms. It forces us to take pause from our every […]
Date: May 31, 2013
Grace Cavalieri from the Washington Independent calls Dan Vera's Speaking Wiri Wiri "an exegesis on language and culture."- "Vera writes so we know how it was for him, and that […]
Date: May 17, 2013
Garrett Bryant from Hinged says that the poems from Brynn Saito's The Palace of Contemplating Departure sing.- "Saito’s ferocious and confident voice guides the reader through both an external journey […]
Date: May 17, 2013
Christopher Bernard from Synchronized Chaos says that the poems found in Ernest Hilbert's All of You on the Good Earth are "some of the most elegant poems in American literature […]
Date: May 9, 2013
Donna Miscolta calls Kelly Davio's Burn This House "blisteringly good poetry".- "In Burn this House (Red Hen Press), Kelly Davio explores relationships—how they falter or erode, how time distorts the […]
Date: May 9, 2013
Thuy Dinh from Shelf Awareness praises Burn This House by Kelly Davio.- "Kelly Davio's debut poetry collection, Burn This House, smolders with doubt and misdirection. Cosmic yet controlled, her poetry […]
Date: May 1, 2013
ArielleYarwood from Lambda Literary Review calls Eloise Klein Healy's A Wild Surmise: New & Selected Poems & Recordings "a book that won’t easily be shaken from your mind."- "How to […]
Date: May 1, 2013
Michelle Salcido from The Rumpus praises Kelly Davio's Burn This House.- "Davio explores the erosion of faith, time, memory, and love with clear speakers who are unafraid to expose doubts […]
Date: April 25, 2013
Charlie Bondhus from Lambda Literary praises Dan Vera's use of language in Speaking Wiri Wiri.- "…there is no gibberish to be found in Vera’s Letras Latinas-winning poetry collection. Rather, there […]
Date: April 25, 2013
Dan O'Brien applauds B.H. James' ability to write "a very American story" in Parnucklian for Chocolate.- "This story has the chaotic rumble of human beings in a jarring sequence of […]
