News:

Luke Goebel’s KILL DICK featured in Alta!

Date: April 6, 2026

In Brentwood, college dropout Susie sinks into lethargy, surrounded by her family’s riches, aided by a pill habit. But her life of leisure and luxury comes to a fast halt […]

Luke Goebel KILL DICK featured in ART NEWS

Date: April 6, 2026

Imagine a novel written in the style of Vice magazine. That’s Kill Dick, Luke Goebel’s debut. This unhinged work of bicoastal art world satire imagines Sackler-family revenge from the vantage of an NYU […]

Read This Insightful Note From Helen Benedict

Date: April 2, 2026

Can you even remember when the U.S. went to war with Iraq in 2003, when President George W. Bush announced that, “at this hour, American and coalition forces are in the early […]

MER Bookshelf – March 2026

Date: March 19, 2026

In this rich new collection, Molly Fisk braids together the ordinary tasks of love and work in 1875, a century we’ve almost forgotten but whose human concerns are universal and […]

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Reviews:

Shelf Awareness Gives The Mighty Currawongs A Gold Star

Date: March 16, 2020

“With his mastery of language and eye for detail, Doyle’s characters always feel authentic, and their ups and downs are realistically proportioned. His gift for finding the sublime in even […]

Stephen Corey reviews The Bob and Weave

Date: March 16, 2020

The Bob and Weave Jim Peterson. Red Hen (CDC, dist.), $16.95 (120p) ISBN 1-888996-65-X Jim Peterson’s poems are filled with the things of this world– its horses, hands, stones, and […]

Realizing Queer Kinship

Date: March 16, 2020

Martha K. Davis’ SCISSORS, PAPER, STONE was recently reviewed by Gertrude Press’ Jess Travers. The novel, narrated in alternating chapters by Catherine, her adopted daughter Min, and Min’s best friend […]

Poetic Paschen

Date: March 16, 2020

“The Chicago poet has spread the good wordings via book, CD, and subway.”

Three reviews praising Celeste Gainey’s the GAFFER!” “

Date: March 16, 2020

Kristofer Collins, from Pittsburgh Magazine, calls Gainey’s the Gaffer a “treasure trove of backstage stories” refering to her 35 years as chief lighting technician in Hollywood. Collins had this to say: “Gainey’s work […]

From the Antioch Review

Date: March 16, 2020

What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison by Camille T. Dungy. Red Hen Press, 88 pp., $15.95 (paper). Dungy’s powerful first collection recognizes language–“A stranger’s voice echoing […]

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