Vox Populi features two poems from Elise Paschen’s BLOOD WOLF MOON
Date: September 19, 2024
Letters Ruby-Throated, sheundaunted, taps the porch screen,types tiny missives. ~~~
News & Reviews
News:
The Best American Poetry features “Advice on Burning Manuscripts” from Gaylord Brewer’s BEFORE THE STORM TAKES IT AWAY
Date: September 12, 2024
Part 2: Advice on Revision and the Pleasure of Burning Manuscripts with Gaylord Brewer [by Nin Andrews] In my last post, I talked about Zoom classes, about advice (or lack […]
Five South Journal’s Jennifer Allen interviews E.P. Tuazon, author of A PROFESSIONAL LOLA
Date: September 12, 2024
E.P. Tuazon’s forthcoming collection of Filipino-American short stories, A Professional Lola (Red Hen Press, 2024), offers a fresh take on identity and explores what it means to be an ever-evolving character in […]
Kwento-Kwento Podcast Interviews E.P. Tuazon, author of A PROFESSIONAL LOLA
Date: September 12, 2024
Ep. 66: That Time My Lola Convinced Mormons To Do Her Chores Special guest E.P. Tuazon joins us to talk about that time their lola convinced Mormons to do her […]
Verse Daily features Jason Schneiderman’s poem CLICKBAIT
Date: September 12, 2024
Today’s poem is by Jason Schneiderman
Runner Magazine interviews Esinam Bediako, author of BLOOD ON THE BRAIN
Date: September 10, 2024
Ghanaian American author Esinam Bediako has been honored for her debut novel Blood on the Brain, set to launch in September of 2024 in Brooklyn, New York. Born and raised in […]
ELLE Magazine features Juliana Lamy’s YOU WERE WATCHING FROM THE SAND
Date: September 4, 2024
“Juliana Lamy’s You Were Watching from the Sand, a story collection with such range and beauty that you need to sit with each one for a while.”
World Literature Today features an Interview between Esinam Bediako and Itoro Bassey
Date: September 3, 2024
Esinam Bediako, a Ghanaian American writer from Detroit, and Itoro Bassey, a Nigerian American writer born in Houston and raised in New England, are both debut, second-generation African-diasporic authors. Bediako’s […]
Shelf Awareness Interviews Eunice Hong, Author of MEMENTO MORI
Date: September 3, 2024
Reading with… Eunice Hong Eunice Hong is the director of the Leadership Initiative and a lecturer in law at Columbia Law School. She was previously a litigation associate at Paul, Weiss, […]
Asian Review of Books features Nahid Rachlin’s MIRAGE
Date: August 28, 2024
Reviews:
Michael Swagner reviews Earthquake I.D.
Date: April 13, 2009
John Domini Earthquake I.D. Red Hen (CDC, dist.) $20.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-59709-076-6Des Moines author John Domini has won awards from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Meridian Editors […]
Naomi Shihab Nye reviews Double Moon
Date: April 13, 2009
Margo Klass and Frank Soos Double Moon. Red Hen (CDC, dist.) $19.95 (80p) ISBN 978-1-59709-141-1This is a stunning book and I want to live in it. Double Moon — one […]
Ariel Dorfman reviews Doors: A Fiction for Jazz Horn
Date: April 13, 2009
Deena Metzger Doors: A Fiction for Jazz Horn. Red Hen (CDC, dist.) $18.95 (296p) ISBN 1-888996-99-4In this heartbreaking, heart-making novel, Deena Metzger dares to ask, to truly ask, the question […]
Kwame Dawes reviews Dog Woman
Date: April 13, 2009
Chris Abani Dog Woman. Red Hen (CDC, dist.) $14.95 (112p) ISBN 1-888996-82-XThese poems reveal a prodigious imagination, which is enlivened by sardonic wit and an inexhaustible capacity for irony and […]
Pleiades reviews Devilfish
Date: April 13, 2009
Gaylord Brewer Devilfish. Red Hen (CDC, dist.) $12.95 (104p) ISBN 1-888996-15-3A devilfish is one of the large rays, cousin to the manta ray and the sting ray. It is an […]
Sharon Doubiago reviews Deconstruction of the Blues
Date: April 13, 2009
Richard Silberg Deconstruction of the Blues. Red Hen (CDC, dist.) $15.95 (104p) ISBN 1-59709-051-4Brilliant. "Writing About Writing." And death. And existence. The mystery of self and others, the connections between […]
Booklist reviews Death of a Circus
Date: April 13, 2009
Chandra Prasad Death of a Circus. Red Hen (CDC, dist.) $18.95 (272p) ISBN 978-1-59709-024-7What city-weary soul hasn’t thought of running away to join the circus? That’s the dream of Lor […]
David St. John reviews Daphne’s Lot
Date: April 13, 2009
Chris Abani Daphne’s Lot. Red Hen (CDC, dist.) $18.95 (112p) ISBN 1-888996-62-5Chris Abani’s DAPHNE’S LOT is an absolute tour de force! The title poem is an exceptionally poignant novella in […]
Ishmael Reed reviews The Dancer and the Dance
Date: April 13, 2009
Jack Foley The Dancer and the Dance. Red Hen (CDC, dist.) $19.95 (280p) ISBN 978-1-59709-094-0I think that many critics are into duplication, willing to accept, meekly, any orthodoxy. Jack Foley […]
Debra Kang Dean reviews Cooling Board: A Long Playing Poem
Date: April 13, 2009
Mitchell Douglas Cooling Board: A Long Playing Poem. Red Hen (CDC, dist.) $19.95 (112p) ISBN 978-1-59709-140-4Cooling Board, Mitchell Douglas' debut collection, is a labor of love and gives expression to […]