Khalisa Rae’s “Wind Watching” featured on The Writer’s Almanac
Date: May 3, 2021
“What if Dorothy wasn’t afraid of the wind?What if she welcomed the cyclone?” Click here to listen to the rest of “Wind Watching.”
News & Reviews
News:
Kim Stafford’s SHELTER IN PLACE referenced during Podcast on Pandemic!
Date: April 27, 2021
Listen or read the full transcript of the podcast “How Poetry Has Helped To Guide People During The Pandemic ” here! https://www.npr.org/2021/04/27/991117892/how-poetry-has-helped-to-guide-people-during-the-pandemic
Shade Literary Arts features GHOST IN A BLACK GIRL’S THROAT by Khalisa Rae!
Date: April 27, 2021
2021 Forthcoming Poetry Books by Queer People of Color Read the list here!
David Campos & Maceo Montoya (AMERICAN QUASAR) interviewed in the American Book Review!
Date: April 26, 2021
Early twentieth-century maverick creator, Guillaume Apollinaire, famously declared, “l’esprit nouveau et les poetes.” With extraordinary collaborations between visual crafters and wordsmiths—Picasso and Max Jacob (Saint Matorel [1911]), Ginsburg and Francesco Clemente […]
An interview with Khalisa Rae is up on The Poetry Question!
Date: April 22, 2021
Khalisa Rae is one of those electrifying speakers you hear about. There’s just something riveting about her work on and off the page. Read it here!
South Pasadena High School Drama Students Read Poet Ron Koertge’s Crowdsourced Poem!
Date: April 22, 2021
To celebrate National Poetry Month, South Pasadena residents of all ages contributed to a crowdsourced community poem, which City of South Pasadena Poet Laureate Ron Koertge wove together into one […]
Khalisa Rae featured on Lit Hub!
Date: April 21, 2021
The Southern writing tradition has always been the fertile ground for fire. Dry weeds exist, yet the soil is rich. For me, the South is a living, breathing thing: a […]
Elise Paschen, author of THE NIGHTLIFE, interviewed on Indian Country Today
Date: April 21, 2021
The Tree Agreement For National Poetry Month listen to Osage poet Elise Paschen read one her incredible poems. Watch the interview here!
Four Red Hen poets with new books out this month featured on Mercurius Magazine!
Date: April 21, 2021
Happy National Poetry Month from Red Hen Press! Our next collaboration with Mercurius Magazine features four poems from collections published by Red Hen this April. Read the poems here!
Q&A from UC Davis with Sadie Hoagland, upcoming author of STRANGE CHILDREN!
Date: April 20, 2021
Examining Beliefs by Jocelyn Anderson | Apr 19, 2021 | Alumni Authors, Culture In her debut novel, Sadie Hoagland, M.A. ’09, tells a fictional story of faith, cruelty and redemption through eight adolescent narrators. Strange Children (Red […]
Reviews:
JANE OF BATTERY PARK Reviewed by Third Coast Review
Date: September 8, 2021
Everything about Jane of Battery Park is unexpected, precarious, paranoid, and quirky. Viner’s dialogue is at once banal, punchy, and self-aware, with as many laugh-out-loud moments as kick-in-the-gut ones.
GLORIOUS BOY by Aimee Liu reviewed by La viduité
Date: September 7, 2021
Decode the savagery of silence, the language of separation and guilt, also deceive that of the enemy. A rather classic novel in its form, in its informed reconstruction of a little-known […]
EVERYTHING NEVER COMES YOUR WAY reviewed in The Anchorage Daily News!
Date: September 7, 2021
In her third book of poetry, Fairbanksan Nicole Stellon O’Donnell firmly establishes herself as both a remarkable artist and a commentator on the role of poet.
NEW MOONS, our upcoming anthology featuring Muslim-American writers, was featured in NewPages List of New and Noteworthy Books!
Date: August 26, 2021
A dynamic collection of contemporary fiction, poetry, and nonfiction by North American Muslims. From the Introduction: “The goal with this anthology is to represent that full range of contemporary expressions […]
Review of THE PLAYWRIGHT’S HOUSE by Dariel Suarez from Latino Stories!
Date: August 24, 2021
Havana breathes, swears and cries in Dariel Suárez’s first novel, The Playwright’s House (Red Hen Press, 2021). With a plot that blends family stories and national history, this is a beautifully layered […]
THE PLAYWRIGHT’S HOUSE reviewed by On The Seawall!
Date: August 24, 2021
This July, Cuba erupted into its widest protests in a generation. News reports credit food and medicine shortages and summer power outages as the catalysts for the demonstrations which have […]
Starred review given to Nicole Stellon’s book EVERYTHING NEVER COMES YOUR WAY!
Date: August 23, 2021
In her inviting third poetry collection, Everything Never Comes Your Way, Nicole Stellon O’Donnell (You Are No Longer in Trouble) muses on the struggles and transcendence of “family-tethered Alaska life.” The […]
JANE OF BATTERY PARK by Jaye Viner gets reviewed by Foreword!
Date: August 19, 2021
A chance encounter changes the trajectory of two lives in Jaye Viner’s novel Jane of Battery Park. Eight years ago, Jane and Daniel met and connected in Battery Park. She saw […]
JANE OF BATTERY PARK by Jaye Viner reviewed in the Midwest Book Review!
Date: August 11, 2021
Read the glowing review here!
Dexter L. Booth’s ABRACADABRA, SUNSHINE was featured on 10 Can’t Miss New Books!
Date: July 21, 2021
Check out the full list here!