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:
The Fragile Human: A Review Of Tess Taylor’s Rift Zone And Last West, Roadsongs For Dorothea Lange
Date: July 20, 2020
“Whose fault // our fault” the poem “Three Dreams, 2018” opens. Tess Taylor’s fourth collection of poems, Rift Zone, tenders to her reader the language of fault, rift and fracture as her […]
Poetry Book Review: Suitor by Joshua Rivkin
Date: July 20, 2020
In part one (titled “Suitors”) of Rivkin’s sharp debut, a long poem in sections cataloguing his mother’s appalling boyfriends, the speaker recalls one priceless specimen who, for Halloween, dressed as […]
Foreword Review: Sugar, Smoke, Song
Date: July 13, 2020
Reema Rajbanshi’s debut novel-in-stories Sugar, Smoke, Song collects its thematically linked pieces into three clusters with recurring characters. The first group, starting with “The Ruins,” centers on beautiful Indo-Burmese identical […]
Donna Hemans, “Tea by the Sea” Review
Date: July 13, 2020
A new father walks out of the hospital with his day-old baby while the mother recuperates from giving birth. He tells a series of lies and moves houses or countries […]
‘Her Sister’s Tattoo’ Is an Insightful and Compassionate Tale of Sisterhood and Activism
Date: July 13, 2020
Ellen Meeropol’s last name is famous among those of us who still recall the tragic case of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were put to death in 1953 after being […]
Toward Antarctica Review
Date: July 13, 2020
“CAN’T JUST GO. Can’t, more to the point, just arrive, land. You must prepare yourself,” writes the poet Elizabeth Bradfield, in Toward Antarctica, a marvelous book of prose, poems, and photographs that document her tenure as […]
Blog Tour: Tea by the Sea
Date: July 1, 2020
Thank you to the following blogs for featuring Donna Heman’s Tea by the Sea! The Livre Café Jessica Belmont Fiction Matters Everyday I Write the Book Never Without A Book […]
KIRKUS: Tea by the Sea
Date: July 1, 2020
A young mother goes on a quest to track down the father of her child, who abducted their baby daughter shortly after her birth. When Plum Valentine is in high […]
Publisher Weekly: The Likely World
Date: June 30, 2020
This skillful twist on the addiction narrative is worth a look.
RHINO: reviews After Rubén
Date: June 30, 2020
In the essay that caps his latest poetry collection, After Rubén, Francisco Aragón traces his relationship with the Nicaraguan poet Rubén Darío (1867-1916). From the initial gift of a handful […]