The Poetry Foundation featured a poem from Dolores Hayden’s EXUBERANCE!
Date: June 1, 2021
Focus on the shapes. Cirrus, a curl,stratus, a layer, cumulus, a heap. Humilis, a small cloud,cumulus humilis, a fine day to fly.
News & Reviews
News:
Poets Corner reading to feature RIFT ZONE author Tess Taylor!
Date: June 1, 2021
MIDCOAST — On Sunday, June 13, from 4 to 5:30 p.m., inaugural poet Richard Blanco will appear on ThePoetsCorner.org in conversation with fellow poets Tess Taylor and Rick Barot, brought to the public […]
Johanna Stoberock, author of PIGS; Kristen Millares Young, author of SUBDUCTION; and Elissa Washuta, author of MY BODY IS A BOOK OF RULES featured in the Seattle Met reading list!
Date: May 24, 2021
Pigs by Johanna Stoberock (2019) This grim, weirdo allegory—a little Lord of the Flies, a little Animal Farm—sets us down on a dystopian island inhabited by pigs that eat the world’s […]
Short Play Based on Ellen Meeropol’s HER SISTER’S TATOO Set for Live Reading!
Date: May 24, 2021
Greenfield, MA – Set in an unspecified re-purposed building in a small Western Massachusetts town, Northampton author and playwright Ellen Meeropol’s GRIDLOCK tackles issues of climate change and radical activism as two sisters […]
WE NEED TO TALK: A MEMOIR ABOUT WEALTH author Jennifer Risher featured on REady2Scale!
Date: May 20, 2021
Wealth surprised me. Having a lot of money doesn’t look or feel like what Hollywood sells us. It can be isolating… And of course, it might be hard to imagine […]
Red Hen Press Receives LA Arts Recovery Fund Grant
Date: May 20, 2021
May 20, 2021 Red Hen Press is honored to be a recipient of an LA Arts Recovery Fund Grant! As one of 90 nonprofits receiving grants, we are excited to […]
Jennifer Risher, author of WE NEED TO TALK; A MEMOIR ABOUT WEALTH, featured on the So Money Podcast!
Date: May 19, 2021
While the ultra-rich don’t ever have to worry about affording their needs (or wants), they may suffer from some big problems related to being wealthy. As guest Jennifer Risher explains, it can […]
Sadie Hoagland, author of STRANGE CHILDREN, interviewed in Hasty Book List!
Date: May 19, 2021
Author I draw inspiration from: Toni Morrison. I’ve always loved her work, but watching the documentary about her and realizing that she wrote many of her books while working fulltime […]
STRANGE CHILDREN author Sadie Hoagland featured in CrimeReads!
Date: May 19, 2021
First things first. I’m a true crime junkie. I’m also a fiction writer. And while I do have dreams of pursuing a true crime project, maybe even solving a cold […]
Excerpt from STRANGE CHILDREN by Sadie Hoagland featured in Hypertext Magazine!
Date: May 19, 2021
When that first baby died inside me and I had to give birth to its rabbit corpse anyhow, I tell you it warn’t the only thing that died inside me. […]
Reviews:
Midwest Book Review praises The Earth Is Not Flat
Date: June 21, 2013
James A. Cox from Midwest Book Review recommends The Earth Is Not Flat by Katharine Coles to readers of poetry.- "With humor and insight, The Earth Is Not Flat is […]
Library Journal features Song for Chance
Date: June 21, 2013
Douglas Lord from Library Journal adds John Van Kirk's Song for Chance to his BEA "Books for Dudes" list.- "Debut novelist Van Kirk delivers the highly authentic story of melancholy, […]
Doris Lynch reviews The Forage House
Date: June 14, 2013
Doris Lynch discusses her take on Tess Taylor's The Forage House. “This first collection reveals a poet with a fully formed voice and involving subject matter…the genealogy she presents provides […]
Linda Rodriguez Writes take on Speaking Wiri Wiri
Date: June 13, 2013
Linda Rodriguez Writes applauds Vera's new work, Speaking Wiri Wiri: “Full of longing and bittersweet humor, these poems are lyrical, narrative, poignant, and always powerful…Vera has given us a true […]
BOOM reviews Birds of Paradise Lost
Date: June 13, 2013
Boom Journal outlines the merits of Lam's collection of short stories: "His own voice is a true gift to California and the world . Lams fiction weaves the pitch-perfect perceptiveness of […]
Gone & Gone featured on Rain Taxi
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 […]
Washington Independent reviews Speaking Wiri Wiri
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 […]
Hinged praises The Palace of Contemplating Departure
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 […]
Synchronized Chaos is impressed with All of You on the Good Earth
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 […]
Donna Miscolta applauds Burn This House
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 […]