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Date: October 19, 2021
Who, a reader might ask, is Patrice Staiger, whose haunting epigram “This story begins at an impasse, since I am writing to you as someone who was never born?” prefaces […]
Date: October 19, 2021
Who, a reader might ask, is Patrice Staiger, whose haunting epigram “This story begins at an impasse, since I am writing to you as someone who was never born?” prefaces […]
Date: October 19, 2021
It was while my family and I were living in Paris in the mid-1950s that I decided to become a poet. I wrote my first poem there, moved by the […]
Date: October 19, 2021
Date: October 18, 2021
I met Martha Cooley in 1999 when, as a then-visiting writer in the Bennington MFA program, she gave a series of lectures, one of which covered Milan Kundera. Martha joined […]
Date: October 14, 2021
As one expects from stories published by Red Hen Press’s Kate Gale, monadnock of the LA literary publishing scene for {undisclosed} years now, there is a weird and unsettling tension […]
Date: October 11, 2021
In Oregon author Cai Emmons’ 2018 novel, Weather Woman, an atmospheric scientist discovers that she is capable of controlling the elements she’s long studied: She can shut down a thunderstorm, […]
Date: October 4, 2021
Beth Gilstrap’s second story collection, Deadheading, won the 2019 Red Hen Press Women’s Prose Award and publishes tomorrow. It includes stories Leesa Cross-Smith characterizes as “little gardens—the words blooming, the […]
Date: September 28, 2021
Date: September 28, 2021
Date: September 22, 2021
Two years ago, Eugene Scene published a story about Weather Woman, Eugene author Cai Emmons’ first book to feature a young woman named Bronwyn Artair, who discovers that by using […]
Date: February 3, 2011
Orlando White Explores Navajo Identity Through Language in Innovative “Bone Light”The first book of poetry by Orlando White offers unexpected innovations.By Alex Young, Guest Writer, 1-28-11 Bone Lightby Orlando WhiteRed […]
Date: February 3, 2011
Bitten by the writing bugSunday, January 30, 2011By RITA MARKSThis week's release of Ellen Meeropol's debut novel, "House Arrest," marks a major milestone in her career as a writer. Most […]
Date: January 24, 2011
Ron Slate reviews New Hope for the Dead: Uncollected William Matthews, edited by Sebastian Matthews and Stanley Plumly!"The poem features the Horatian qualities one associates with Matthews…"The rest of Slate's […]
Date: January 12, 2011
Janice Eidus' The Last Jewish Virgin has a place on the Midwest Book Review's "Small Press Review" fiction shelf for January 2011!"Vampires are a staple of literature, but Janice Eidus […]
Date: January 5, 2011
Amy Lennon's collection of poetry, "Saint Nobody", received an in-depth review from the craft-focused community of Centrum in Port Townsend, Washington!"Poet Amy Lemmon, whose just-released collection Saint Nobody is now […]
Date: January 5, 2011
Rigoberto Gonzalez of The National Booki Critics Circle named Kurt Brown's collection of poems, No Other Paradise, as a 2010 Small Press Highlight!"If other poets examine the mysteries of our […]
Date: January 5, 2011
Scott Brown received a wonderful review in the 2010 Hawaii Edition Review for his "brilliant political farce", Far Afield."Far Afield is an enormously entertaining novel that exposes our media’s preoccupation […]
Date: January 5, 2011
"As we near the end of this year in which America went broke, got high, and watched J.D. Salinger (and Gary Coleman) die, let's celebrate the East Bay's literary contributions […]
Date: January 5, 2011
January Magazine names Janice Eidus's The Last Jewish Virgin as one of the best books of 2010. "The Last Jewish Virgin is quite beyond the sum of its parts." — […]
Date: December 14, 2010
Book Notes – Rob Roberge ("Working Backwards from the Worst Moment of My Life")In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way […]