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:
Patter, the most important collection of poetry published this year””
Date: March 27, 2014
Luke Fiddler of The Economy Magazine gives a glowing review to Douglas Kearney's new book, Patter. He states, "By all measures, Patter scrapes vertiginous heights; it’s a magisterial study of […]
Dennis Must is Beyond Ordinary
Date: March 27, 2014
Dactyl Review examines The World's Smallest Bible, the new novel by Dennis Must, calling him a "searching writer, able to transcribe madness and instability, the wrack of obsession and the […]
Jessica Piazza’s Contemporary Collection
Date: March 27, 2014
Timothy Otte of Hazel and Wren recently praised Jessica Piazza's Interrobang as "free flowing and contemporary, yet formally precise, employing the same linguistic tricks that mark sonnets written by the […]
Impressive Review for Pause, Traveler
Date: March 6, 2014
Pause, Traveler by Erin Couglin Hollowell was recently reviewed by Kris Bigalk from Poetry Northwest, calling it impressive with "elements of story and song, evoked through a uniquely contemporary lens." […]
Poetry Northwest Asks You to Put Your Trust in Nicelle Davis
Date: March 6, 2014
Poetry Northwest asks the readers to put their trust in the words of Nicelle Davis in their latest review of Becoming Judas. Alexis Vergalla proclaims, "I'll go back again, because […]
The Ogre’s Wife Causes Jealousy
Date: March 6, 2014
In a recent review of Ron Koertge's The Ogre's Wife, Neil McCarthy (from his namesake blog, Neil McCarthy Poetry) expresses his jealousy and high regard for Koertge's fantastical poetry collection. […]
Neil McCarthy Praises the Humor in Calamity Joe
Date: March 6, 2014
Brendan Constantine's Calamity Joe received high praises for its humor and originality in Neil McCarthy's blog, Neil McCarthy Poetry. "It’s only a matter of time before someone coins an adjective […]
Interrobang featured in Boxcar Poetry Review
Date: March 6, 2014
Paula Mendoza recently wrote an analytical and positive review of Jessica Piazza's Interrobang for the Boxcar Poetry Review. Mendoza writes, "Piazza reads like the best hip-hop; verbal acrobatics that tempers […]
FOCUS on Gary Geddes’ What Does A House Want?
Date: February 13, 2014
FOCUS magazine's Amy Reiswig takes us into Gary Geddes' new collection of poems, What Does A House Want?, in which she proclaims, "Geddes is able to explore both our humanity […]
North American Review praises Chopper! Chopper!
Date: February 5, 2014
Verionica Reyes's Chopper! Chopper! Poetry from Bordered Lives was called a "genunie treasure" by Vince Gotera in the North American Review. Read the full article in the most recent issue […]