Brookline Booksmith in discussion with Lara Ehrlich on BIND ME TIGHTER STILL
Date: October 7, 2025
News & Reviews
News:
Pasadena Now: Ron Koertge to read from his latest collection PANDORA’A KITCHEN
Date: September 30, 2025
When Ron Koertge writes about Persephone, Nancy Drew, and Dracula’s wives in the same poetry collection, he’s creating the unexpected literary terrain that has defined his decades-long career. The longtime […]
Q&A with Louise Wannier on TREE SPIRITS AROUND THE WORLD
Date: September 30, 2025
Louise Wannier is the author and photographer of the new children’s picture book Tree Spirits Around the World. She also has created the book Tree Spirits. She is an artist […]
Writer’s Digest on Louise Wannier and Photography in TREE SPIRITS AROUND THE WORLD
Date: September 30, 2025
Author, artist, and creative entrepreneur Louise Wannier shares how photography led her to write a children’s book about tree spirits. My years behind the camera taught me to notice the […]
David Eggleton’s BREATHING SPACE featured in The Spinoff
Date: September 30, 2025
A new poem by David Eggleton, whose new book Lifting the Island was published this week by Red Hen Press. Breathing Space Before the gerontocracy get to me,and put me in a […]
Nancy Kricorian named in the Wallpaper USA 400 List for Voices Defining Creative America
Date: September 16, 2025
The Wallpaper* USA 400 celebrates Creative America in all its dazzling breadth and diversity. Our snapshot of the people who are shaping the country’s creative landscape in 2025 spans community builders, […]
Allison Joseph in The Southern Illinoisan: “Poetry is for everybody”
Date: September 16, 2025
CARBONDALE — Local poet and SIU professor Allison Joseph recently released a collection of poems Dwelling, which she said is “about home and how we find home, how home is in […]
Eunice Hong Interviews with Singapore Unbound on MEMENTO MORI
Date: September 16, 2025
Eunice Hong’s debut novel, Memento Mori, selected by Aimee Liu as a Red Hen Press Fiction Award Winner, follows an unnamed Korean narrator through mythology, memory loss, and numerous personal tragedies. […]
Chicago Review Interviews Lara Ehrlich on BIND ME TIGHTER: “Alluring Mermaids and Raging Sirens”
Date: September 9, 2025
When my coworker casually mentioned working as a mermaid at a tiki bar out west, I was flabbergasted and mesmerized. So when I heard about Lara Ehrlich’s Bind Me Tighter Still, […]
Majid Naficy Reads His Works LIVE at the Santa Monica Library
Date: September 4, 2025
The Red Hen Press poet, Majid Naficy recently read a few of his works at the Santa Monica Library!
Reviews:
Adam Kirsch’s THE DISCARDED LIFE reviewed in latest edition of The New York Review of Books
Date: October 3, 2022
“Hell,” wrote Percy Shelley in 1819, “is a city much like London.” A hundred and twenty years later Bertolt Brecht, who fled the Nazis for Santa Monica, volunteered a different […]
Coco Picard’s Healing Circle featured in Fiction Roundup by LitReactor
Date: September 28, 2022
The Healing Circle by Coco Picard is a lyrical novel—written in sketches and short chapters that feel like jabs—about dying, and much more, happening across past and present timelines, dipping in […]
Dennis Must’s MACLEISH SQ. reviewed in Foreword Reviews!
Date: September 26, 2022
“The novel’s surreal atmosphere is grounded by mundane details, as of the hot tea that John offers Eli upon his arrival, and the rabbit’s foot charm dangling from the rearview […]
LARB Reviews Coco Picard’s THE HEALING CIRCLE
Date: September 17, 2022
HOPE, WHEN HELD past the point of reason, is liable to transform into a certain kind of absurdity. Over the course of The Healing Circle — the latest novel from writer, artist, […]
Ellen Meeropol’s THE LOST WOMEN OF AZALEA COURT reviewed in the Daily Hampshire Gazette
Date: September 12, 2022
Northampton author Ellen Meeropol used her first four novels to explore how a range of social and political issues, from the rise of the U.S. security state in the aftermath […]
A Review of Refugee by Pamela Uschuk in the North American Review
Date: September 12, 2022
“Since all around us refugees seem to be fleeing from something, one must ask from what they themselves flee—and that it’s hard to imagine there is anywhere left one can go […]
Glowing Review of THE HEALING CIRCLE by Coco Picard from Midwest Review
Date: September 12, 2022
A unique and inherently engaging novel about life, death, and dying, “The Healing Circle” showcases author Coco Picard’s natural flair for crafting a novel of serious substance with a flair […]
Shelf Awareness Reviews Marybeth Holleman’s TENDER GRAVITY
Date: September 8, 2022
Although Marybeth Holleman’s five books are all deeply rooted in Alaska’s landscape and wildlife, Tender Gravity is her first expression of that connection through poetry. The title phrase comes from the first […]
North of Oxford Reviews Joshua Rivkin’s SUITOR!
Date: September 8, 2022
By Charles Rammelkamp “we are what happens by accident,” Joshua Rivkin writes in the first “Envoi” of this lyrical, emotionally probing collection, and goes on: Suitor, from the Latin secutor, to […]
North of Oxford Reviews TOUCHING CREATURES, TOUCHING SPIRIT by Judy Grahn
Date: September 8, 2022
Judy Grahn’s Touching Creatures, Touching Spirit is a thought-provoking study of relationships between human and nonhuman creatures and spirits. It collects ten nonfiction essays, divided into three parts, with a vivid record […]