Three poems by Kim Stafford, author of SINGER COME FROM AFAR, featured in POETRY Magazine’s March issue!
Date: April 14, 2021
At the Student Poetry Reading Equinox: Greta in Poland Before the Rains Had Come Read the poems here!
News & Reviews
News:
Author Maurya Simon recently published an article on “poets in society” in The Press-Enterprise.
Date: April 13, 2021
Our hopes are reborn in spring, and as winter’s cold winds morph into April’s warming breezes, we may experience a quickening of our pulses, a lightening of our steps. But […]
The Atlantic features POWER MADE US SWOON poet Brynn Saito for National Poetry Month!
Date: April 12, 2021
April is National Poetry Month. Writers from around our newsroom share the poems they’re turning to as the nation defrosts… One day above me / men with bony shoulders came […]
Check out what Red Hen is up to THIS FRIDAY on Colorado Boulevard.net!
Date: April 12, 2021
ArtNight Pasadena, the city’s signature cultural event produced by the Cultural Affairs Division in partnership with partner organizations, will take place online with links going live at 6:00 pm on April 16, […]
Marie Tozier, author of OPEN THE DARK, will be featured in Skagway’s 12th Annual North Words Writers Symposium!
Date: April 12, 2021
The dates for Skagway’s 12th annual North Words Writers Symposium are now Sept. 3-5. The move from its usual time in late May to Labor Day weekend will enable North […]
Jennifer Risher, author of WE NEED TO TALK, featured in UBS on Air: Conversations
Date: April 12, 2021
Jennifer Risher, a beneficiary of the dot-com boom and author of We Need to Talk: A Memoir about Wealth, joins Judy Spalthoff, Head of Family Advisory and Philanthropy Services, to […]
Listen to WE NEED TO TALK author Jen Risher on The Development Debrief!
Date: April 8, 2021
Jennifer came into significant wealth in her early 30’s. Over the years, her wealth has grown to a number she never could have imagined. She chose to write her memoir […]
A GYPSY’S BOOK OF REVELATION & AMERICAN QUASAR featured in this months issue of ShelfUnbound!
Date: April 7, 2021
Take a look at the cover! It may share some resemblance to the cover of A Gypsy’s Book of Revelation! Also don’t forget to read the in-depth interviews with the […]
GHOST IN A BLACK GIRL’S THROAT by Khalisa Rae listed on WRAL
Date: April 7, 2021
As a reader and native North Carolinian, I love finding books that are set in NC and/or written by fellow NC folks. Since becoming a bookseller, I’ve been astounded by […]
Rex Wilder’s poem featured on the National Review!
Date: April 7, 2021
Rex Wilder, author of BOOMERANGS IN THE LIVING ROOM and WAKING BODIES reads “Dolphins on Glass” Listen to the poem here!
Reviews:
THE SOLDIER’S HOUSE by Helen Benedict gets a raving review!
Date: January 27, 2026
Helen Benedict’s THE SOLDIER’S HOUSE (2026) completes her Iraq war trilogy, that began with SAND QUEEN (2011) and was followed by WOLF SEASON (2017). But the new book is actually […]
Luke Goebel’s KILL DICK reviewed by Kirkus Reviews
Date: January 27, 2026
“…Shot through with the sort of pseudo-profundity endemic to youthful privilege, Susie’s rambling, terminally jaundiced narrative paints a darkly surreal Lynch- and Kubrick-inspired portrait of LA.”
Luke Goebel’s KILL DICK reviewed by Foreword Reviews
Date: January 21, 2026
Luke B. Goebel’s winking satirical novel Kill Dick parodies contemporary literary and cultural forms. Set against sun-bleached Los Angeles—a place marked by wealth, addiction, and apathy—the book accumulates exaggerations of […]
The Pickup from This Land Press reviews Elise Paschen’s BLOOD WOLF MOON
Date: January 20, 2026
How does one build an identity? It’s an ongoing venture of discerning and refining, discarding narratives as much as creating them. For a poet, especially one who writes autobiographically, that […]
Andrew Lam’s STORIES FROM THE EDGE OF THE SEA reviewed in The Common
Date: December 17, 2025
…In his latest collection Stories from the Edge of the Sea, Andrew Lam delivers work far beyond that narrow definition of the form. The settings are complex. Even a five-page […]
Adela Najarro’s VARIATIONS IN BLUE reviewed in Escape Into Life
Date: December 17, 2025
…Dr. Adela Najarro’s fifth book of poetry, Variations in Blue, is bright blue, black and blue, with dark reaching light. This bicultural-bilingual author “stands on the edge of volcanoes” to […]
Louise Wannier’s TREE SPIRITS AROUND THE WORLD reviewed in She Scribes
Date: November 4, 2025
This book encourages children to use their imagination. Throughout the book there are photos that encourage readers to really examine and appreciate. Just like cloud watching, you’ll eventually see something […]
TREE SPIRITS AROUND THE WORLD by Louise Wannier reviewed in Crafty Moms Share
Date: October 14, 2025
This book is so interesting. After meeting Tilly, Tilly travels around the world and shares trees from around the world. With each tree there is Tilly in a boat with […]
Booklist reviews TIMBER & LUA by Vi Khi Nào and Lily Hoàng
Date: October 8, 2025
Award-winning interdisciplinary writers Hoàng and Nào provocatively interrogate language,comprehension, and communication in a global world. Their collaborative result is a polyglotshowcase that combines English, Vietnamese, and a hybrid Vietlish to […]
BIND ME TIGHTER STILL by Lara Ehrlich reviewed in PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Date: October 7, 2025
With nods to “The Little Mermaid,” Ehrlich’s lovely sophomore outing (after Animal Wife) again probes themes of womanhood and monstrosity. Ceto, a siren and hunter of men, yearns to break the […]