Luke Goebel’s KILL DICK featured in Alta!
Date: April 6, 2026
In Brentwood, college dropout Susie sinks into lethargy, surrounded by her family’s riches, aided by a pill habit. But her life of leisure and luxury comes to a fast halt […]
News & Reviews
News:
Luke Goebel’s KILL DICK appeared in Crime Fiction Lover!
Date: April 6, 2026
A teenage addict and an ex-professor running a rehab scam find common ground in Luke Goebel’s dark and satirical literary thriller Kill Dick, out on 14 April. Susie Vogelman is […]
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 […]
Amy Pence featured in Writer’s Digest!
Date: March 31, 2026
Author Amy Pence shares her “silver linings playbook” to publishing past a certain age and how being a late-bloomer can be a plus.
David Eggleton’s poem, THE NAVIGATORS, from his collection, LIFTING THE ISLAND, selected for Best New Zealand Poems 2025!
Date: March 31, 2026
David Eggleton is a poet of Papālagi, Rotuman and Tongan descent, with ancestral connections to the villages of Motusa and Ma’ufanga. He lives in Ōtepoti Dunedin and was the New […]
Rebecca Chace’s TALKING TO THE WOLF listed in Oldster Magazine!
Date: March 25, 2026
This is Rebecca Chace’s fifth book and third novel, and her first that isn’t with a Big Five publisher. “At a time that is not easy for publishing literary fiction […]
Kristen Millares Young interviewed on Seattle City of Literature!
Date: March 24, 2026
Tune in for an exclusive inside look at Kristen Millares Young’s upcoming memoir, DESIRE LINES!
New poetry from David Mason featured in Narrative Magazine!
Date: March 24, 2026
David Mason, former poet laureate of Colorado, is the author of numerous books, including Cold Fire (Red Hen, 2026), The Sound: New and Selected Poems, Ludlow: A Verse Novel, and […]
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 […]
Reviews:
Cult. Bomb raves about Brendan Constantine’s Calamity Joe!
Date: March 16, 2012
Cult. Bomb author Danielle Mitchell recently blogged this about Calamity Joe, Brendan Constantine's newest collection of poems from Red Hen Press: "Here there is wonder, earth, humor, rancid, lameness, shimmer, […]
Room Service gets a great review on Shelf Awareness
Date: March 14, 2012
Shelf Awareness' Tom Lavoie has this to say about Ron Carlson's Room Service: "The poems and prose pieces in Room Service are thoughtful, witty, sad and hopeful–rarely angry or mad. […]
Arthur J. Kubick praises Blase Bonpane’s Imagine No Religion!
Date: March 7, 2012
In a recent Catholic Books Review article, Arthur J. Kubick had this to say about Imagine No Religion: The Autobiography of Blase Bonpane – "This fascinating autobiography takes the reader […]
Phati’tude Literary Magazine loves Suck on the Marrow by Camille Dungy!
Date: February 27, 2012
“Dungy captures the human heart and soul in her characters while illustrating the rawness of their suffering with gracefully blatant and rebellious passion.” – Phati'tude Literary Magazine The full text […]
Strong Verse reviews Annie Finch’s Among the Goddesses.
Date: February 27, 2012
In Strong Verse, G.M. Palmer says this about Among the Goddesses- "Like any poet of worth, Finch produces beautiful lines, by themselves worth the price of admission.” For the full […]
Rave reviews for Rachel Flynn’s Tongue in the Valparaiso Poetry Review.
Date: February 27, 2012
In the recent Valparaiso Poetry Review, Paul David Adkins had this to say about Tongue- "Within this hard-fought, inspiring collection, Flynn masterfully couples the lyric and narrative to create a […]
Los Angeles Review of Books loves Brian Doyle’s Bin Laden’s Bald Spot!
Date: February 27, 2012
Lee Polevoi of the Los Angeles Review of Books says that, "Bin Laden's Bald Spot encompasses worlds of absurdity and quotidian reality in the voices of ordinary citizens. Underneath the […]
Emilia Phillips raves about Gaylord Brewer’s Give Over, Graymalkin!
Date: February 16, 2012
In the Connecticut River Review, Emilia Phillips says that "Brewer's intentions in Give Over, Graymalkin waver between reverence and ravaging, and the tension between the two creates an energy that […]
Patrick Bizzaro Reviews Gaylord Brewer’s Give Over, Graymalkin in Asheville Poetry Review
Date: February 16, 2012
In the Asheville Poetry Review, Patrick Bizzaro had this to say about Gaylord Brewer's Give Over, Graymalkin- "As poetry, Brewer's work avoids sentimentality and instead reveals the inner workings of […]
The Midwest Book Review praises Genevieve Kaplan’s In the ice house!
Date: February 13, 2012
Recently, James A. Cox of The Midwest Book Review had this to say about Genevieve Kaplan – "In the ice house is a core addition to any modern poetry collection." […]