Essay by Martha Cooley in Literary Hub!
Date: January 13, 2021
On a damp afternoon a few years ago, descending a stone ramp adjacent to a cobblestone lane, I slipped on a slick patch. Landing on my seat, I bounced upward […]
News & Reviews
News:
Conversation with Kristen Millares Young by NYS Writers Institute!
Date: January 13, 2021
“As a journalist, I’d always been interested in finding that space between what people say and what they do. That’s the way we use rhetoric to hold politicians accountable… As […]
Tea by the Sea featured in OPRAH Magazine!
Date: January 12, 2021
O, the Oprah Magazine, features the Rebel Women’s Lit Caribbean Reader Awards, including Donna Hemans’s Tea by the Sea, which won the award for Best Fiction!
Sadie Hoagland featured in Scary Mommy!
Date: January 11, 2021
When my daughter got into Berenstain bears, it was all my fault. I remembered loving the series, associating them with my old school library and a particular comfort there. So I bought her […]
Jen Risher on Fit for Joy: Demystifying Wealth & Inspiring to Us to Connect
Date: January 11, 2021
When Jennifer Risher joined Microsoft in 1991, she met her husband, and with him became an extra-lucky beneficiary of the dot-com boom. By their early thirties, they had tens of […]
540 West Main added THE LIKELY WORLD by Melanie Conroy-Goldman to their list of Essential Readings of 2021!
Date: January 7, 2021
540WMain’s Essential Reading List (Books You Must Read) in 2021 Every year we love sharing the books that inspire our mission and programming. One of the first steps to dismantling […]
Sebastian Matthews featured on What Matters Most podcast!
Date: January 4, 2021
This was a deeply engaging conversation with author and poet Sebastian Matthews. He survived a terrible head-on collision and wrote a wonderful book called Beyond Repair about his experience. We went into […]
HER SISTER’S TATTOO (Ellen Meeropol) one of ten books you might’ve missed in 2020 from OOLA!
Date: January 4, 2021
Even with all the extra “free time” sheltering in place gave us this year, there was a lot going on. Between learning how to work from home, helping kids with virtual learning, […]
Ellen Meeropol’s HER SISTER’S TATTOO on list of best books and complimentary TV shows of 2020.
Date: January 4, 2021
Everyone loves a good list and there are no shortage of book recommendations from celebrities, media outlets and booksellers. I love looking at my overcrowded shelves and this year I […]
TEA BY THE SEA wins Best Novel for the Caribbean Readers’ Award at Rebel Women Lit!
Date: January 4, 2021
Over 1800 people readers, we are happy to announce the winners for the Inaugural Caribbean Readers’ Award! The Caribbean Readers’ Award recognizes outstanding works in Caribbean Literature. The prize is […]
Reviews:
You should be reading Summer Brenner
Date: December 14, 2010
You should be reading Summer Brenner THE title story of Summer Brenner's "My Life in Clothes" is a fierce and funny slip of a thing. "Early on, my cousin, Peggy, […]
Far Afield
Date: December 3, 2010
http://community.livejournal.com/asianamlitfans/85138.html
Los Angeles Times Review for Kim Dower’s Air Kissing on Mars
Date: November 16, 2010
"Sensual and evocative, these poems traverse the chaos of everyday life with a light touch that can turn ironic and edgy without you even noticing it. Some are lyrical snapshots […]
Oregonian Review for Kim Dower’s Air Kissing on Mars
Date: November 16, 2010
"Air Kissing on Mars," is a collection that showcases Dower's funny, accessible, sneaky-profound poetry. She's more Billy Collins than John Ashbery and has some of the same sharp Southern California […]
Janice Eidus Review
Date: November 15, 2010
Check out this great review for Janice's newest book!
The Neglected Art and the Young American Poets
Date: November 11, 2010
The Neglected Art and the Young American PoetsJohn CotterA Gringo Like Me by Jennifer L. Knox Soft Skull Press, 2005, 95p, $13.95Lamp of the Body by Maggie Smith Red Hen […]
Texas Review Covers Dennis Must
Date: October 29, 2010
THE TEXAS REVIEW, Volume 30, Numbers 3&4, Fall Winter 2009Dennis Must's second story collection is stunning in its complexity, its variety, and its original, forceful treatment of universal themes. These […]
Island
Date: October 26, 2010
Island, by Jeanette Clough. Los Angeles, CA: Red Hen Press, 2007. Reviewed by Patricia Crane in Poetry International (2010, vol. 15 – 16), pp 399-400.If the physical world is the […]
Review from Cerise Press
Date: September 2, 2010
http://www.cerisepress.com/02/04/a-moral-education-give-eat-and-live-poems-of-avvaiyar
Cortland Review of NO OTHER PARADISE
Date: August 9, 2010
http://www.cortlandreview.com/issue/48/index.html?ref=home