News:

Luke Goebel KILL DICK featured in ART NEWS

Date: April 6, 2026

Imagine a novel written in the style of Vice magazine. That’s Kill Dick, Luke Goebel’s debut. This unhinged work of bicoastal art world satire imagines Sackler-family revenge from the vantage of an NYU […]

Read This Insightful Note From Helen Benedict

Date: April 2, 2026

Can you even remember when the U.S. went to war with Iraq in 2003, when President George W. Bush announced that, “at this hour, American and coalition forces are in the early […]

MER Bookshelf – March 2026

Date: March 19, 2026

In this rich new collection, Molly Fisk braids together the ordinary tasks of love and work in 1875, a century we’ve almost forgotten but whose human concerns are universal and […]

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Reviews:

Sharon Doubiago reviews Deconstruction of the Blues

Date: April 13, 2009

Richard Silberg Deconstruction of the Blues. Red Hen (CDC, dist.) $15.95 (104p) ISBN 1-59709-051-4Brilliant. "Writing About Writing." And death. And existence. The mystery of self and others, the connections between […]

Booklist reviews Death of a Circus

Date: April 13, 2009

Chandra Prasad Death of a Circus. Red Hen (CDC, dist.) $18.95 (272p) ISBN 978-1-59709-024-7What city-weary soul hasn’t thought of running away to join the circus? That’s the dream of Lor […]

David St. John reviews Daphne’s Lot

Date: April 13, 2009

Chris Abani Daphne’s Lot. Red Hen (CDC, dist.) $18.95 (112p) ISBN 1-888996-62-5Chris Abani’s DAPHNE’S LOT is an absolute tour de force! The title poem is an exceptionally poignant novella in […]

Ishmael Reed reviews The Dancer and the Dance

Date: April 13, 2009

Jack Foley The Dancer and the Dance. Red Hen (CDC, dist.) $19.95 (280p) ISBN 978-1-59709-094-0I think that many critics are into duplication, willing to accept, meekly, any orthodoxy. Jack Foley […]

Debra Kang Dean reviews Cooling Board: A Long Playing Poem

Date: April 13, 2009

Mitchell Douglas Cooling Board: A Long Playing Poem. Red Hen (CDC, dist.) $19.95 (112p) ISBN 978-1-59709-140-4Cooling Board, Mitchell Douglas' debut collection, is a labor of love and gives expression to […]

Small Press Bookwatch reviews The Common Fire

Date: April 13, 2009

The Common Fire Shelley Savren. Red Hen (CDC, dist.) $12.95 (88p) ISBN 978-1-888996-96-8Winner of the 1994 John David Johnson Memorial Poetry Award, Shelley Savren is the recipient of nine California […]

Rachel Richmond reviews Cold Angel of Mercy

Date: April 13, 2009

Cold Angel of Mercy Amy Randolph. Red Hen (CDC, dist.) $11.95 (72p) ISBN 1-888996-55-2A nature-touched spirit penetrates Amy Randolph's book of thirty-eight poems. These poems are filled with dreams of […]

Phoebe Journal reviews Cartographies

Date: April 13, 2009

Cartographies Maurya Simon. Red Hen (CDC, dist.) $18.95 (104p) ISBN 978-1-59709-387-3 Maurya Simon's resume reads like that of a literary superstar. Nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 1990 and the […]

Steven Hansen reviews Burning Tulips

Date: April 13, 2009

Burning Tulips Diane Payne. Red Hen (CDC, dist.) $15.95 (156p) ISBN 978-1-888996-89-0The terms 'memoir' and 'novel' are not as easily blended as PB&J; nor do they make half as good […]

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