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:
Michael Turner’s review on Growler
Date: March 16, 2020
“Many of Green’s speakers seem to desire to disappear, to re-work the equation for subtraction. It is the frustration caused by a world that fails to allow disappearance which provides […]
Shelf Awareness Gives The Mighty Currawongs A Gold Star
Date: March 16, 2020
“With his mastery of language and eye for detail, Doyle’s characters always feel authentic, and their ups and downs are realistically proportioned. His gift for finding the sublime in even […]
Stephen Corey reviews The Bob and Weave
Date: March 16, 2020
The Bob and Weave Jim Peterson. Red Hen (CDC, dist.), $16.95 (120p) ISBN 1-888996-65-X Jim Peterson’s poems are filled with the things of this world– its horses, hands, stones, and […]
Father, Child, Water by Gary Dop gets reviewed Poetry Magazine
Date: March 16, 2020
Recommended and briefly reviewed by Eduardo C. Corral in Poetry Magazine. The poems in Father, Child, Water by Gary Dop are funny, wicked, and poignant. These three qualities are visible […]
Realizing Queer Kinship
Date: March 16, 2020
Martha K. Davis’ SCISSORS, PAPER, STONE was recently reviewed by Gertrude Press’ Jess Travers. The novel, narrated in alternating chapters by Catherine, her adopted daughter Min, and Min’s best friend […]
Poetic Paschen
Date: March 16, 2020
“The Chicago poet has spread the good wordings via book, CD, and subway.”
The Literary Review raves about Gary Dop’s “Father, Child, Water!”
Date: March 16, 2020
Timothy Lindner of The Literary Review gave a great review for Gary Dop’s Father, Child, Water! Lindner spotlights and relates to how Dop focuses on paternal relationships and their ability to shape our […]
Review: Cynthia Hogue’s ‘Or Consequence'” in Fogged Clarity”
Date: March 16, 2020
Scott Hightower reviews Cynthia Hogue’s Or Consequence in the arts review, Fogged Clarity (April 2011). According to Hightower, Hogue is “a poet of extreme precision and no histrionics.”
The Neglected Art… John Cotter reviews Lamp of the Body
Date: March 16, 2020
John Cotter A Gringo Like Me by Jennifer L. Knox Soft Skull Press, 2005, 95p, $13.95 Lamp of the Body by Maggie Smith Red Hen Press, 2005, 69p, $12.95 Some Mountains Removed by […]
Three reviews praising Celeste Gainey’s the GAFFER!” “
Date: March 16, 2020
Kristofer Collins, from Pittsburgh Magazine, calls Gainey’s the Gaffer a “treasure trove of backstage stories” refering to her 35 years as chief lighting technician in Hollywood. Collins had this to say: “Gaineys work […]