Aimee Liu featured in the Los Angeles Times!
Date: March 10, 2021
The second dose was supposed to be my reunion pass. Thanks to COVID-19, I couldn’t get back to Connecticut for my mother’s 100th birthday at Christmastime, but once we were […]
News & Reviews
News:
UMF features virtual reading by THE PLAYWRIGHT’S HOUSE author, Dariel Suarez, on March 18th!
Date: March 8, 2021
The University of Maine at Farmington’s celebrated Visiting Writers Series presents fiction writer Dariel Suarez as the popular program’s fifth reader of the season. Suarez will read from his work […]
Calling all South Pasadenans: Participate in a crowdsourced poem for National Poetry Month, written by Ron Koertge!
Date: March 4, 2021
In celebration of National Poetry Month in April, the South Pasadena Public Library invites residents of all ages to contribute to a crowdsourced poem to be written by South Pasadena’s Poet Laureate Ron Koertge. […]
WE NEED TO TALK author, Jen Risher, to Zoom with Pequot Library
Date: March 4, 2021
March 10 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Jennifer Risher is the author of We Need to Talk: A Memoir About Wealth which tells her story and explores the impact of wealth on identity, relationships, […]
TOUCHING CREATURES, TOUCHING SPIRIT author Judy Grahn featured on Consortium of Seven!
Date: March 3, 2021
You know how it is when you hear someone absolutely brilliant and they articulate ideas that change your thinking in huge ways and you, in turn, can articulate extraordinarily little […]
Tess Taylor, “how verse can provide solace,” on PBS New Hour!
Date: March 3, 2021
For many, it’s a time of uncertainty and isolation. But in poet Tess Taylor’s humble opinion, turning to verse can provide solace. Her recent book of poems is “Rift Zone,” […]
4 Red Hen Poets and their poems featured on Mercurius!
Date: March 1, 2021
Check out the Red Hen Press Poetry Special on Mercurius. Featuring Joshua Rivkin, Marie Tozier, Jim Peterson, and Susan Ludvigson!
Barbara Abercrombie of LA REVIEW OF BOOKS interviews Deborah A. Lott on her book DON’T GO CRAZY WITHOUIT ME!
Date: March 1, 2021
DEBORAH A. LOTT is the author of the newly released Don’t Go Crazy Without Me: A Tragicomic Memoir. Lott writes of growing up in a family of leftist Jews, surrounded by […]
Khalisa Rae featured on Autostraddle: “Queering Faith”
Date: February 25, 2021
Welcome to Autostraddle’s 2021 Black History Month essay series. In their recent stirring multi-media anthology Black Futures, Black queer creators Jenna Wortham and Kimberly Drew ask, “What does it mean to be Black and alive?” […]
ANIMAL WIFE by Lara Ehrlich featured on Jen Campbell’s YouTube!
Date: February 24, 2021
In which I chat about lots of new books. Grab a cup of tea and join me! Watch the full video here!
Reviews:
Pamela Uschuk’s REFUGEE Earns a Kirkus Star!
Date: November 17, 2022
A mordantly tender triumph rich with natural imagery. Uschuk’s poetry collection calls out authoritarianism and social injustice. This moving set of poems offer messages of hope as it addresses timely […]
David Mas Masumoto and Patricia Wakida’s SECRET HARVESTS reviewed in Foreword Reviews!
Date: November 16, 2022
“Paired with artist Patricia Wakida’s haunting illustrations, the book’s rich, lyrical language evokes both cultural eloquence and California’s seasonal beauty. Poignant and reflective, Secret Harvests is a family saga of […]
PEN America Interviews John Weir, Author of YOUR NOSTALGIA IS KILLING ME!
Date: November 14, 2022
The title of your book Your Nostalgia is Killing Me, seems to be an ironic one. The protagonist’s nostalgia is seemingly running havoc on his own life. He can’t escape revisiting the past and […]
TENDER GRAVITY by Marybeth Holleman Reviewed in the Colorado Review!
Date: November 9, 2022
Though Marybeth Holleman is the author of several nonfiction books centering around environmental issues and her chosen home of Alaska, tender gravity is her debut collection of poetry. Its title is drawn […]
Warped Perspective recommends Peter Ulrich’s Drumming with Dead Can Dance & Parallel Adventures
Date: November 9, 2022
Dead Can Dance have long been a deeply resonant, exploratory presence on the outskirts of alternative music. Never comfortably existing in one genre or another – no surprises there, given […]
EcoTheo Collective reviews Khalisa Rae’s GHOST IN A BLACK GIRL’S THROAT!
Date: November 2, 2022
The American ghost, in Khalisa Rae’s narrative, is a chimera—a multi formed, multi-faceted reflection and mirror of society, of survival, and suspense, of waiting to see what the future will […]
David Mason’s PACIFIC LIGHT reviewed in the Australian Book Review!
Date: October 31, 2022
Poet, essayist, and librettist David Mason grew up in Washington State, worked for many years in Colorado (where he became the state’s poet laureate) and a couple of years ago […]
Ron Koertge’s I DREAMED I WAS EMILY DICKINSON’S BOYFRIEND on Shelf Awareness’ Best Book List!
Date: October 20, 2022
Somewhere in the history of literature, the world decided that poetry was “serious.” But with I Dreamed I Was Emily Dickinson’s Boyfriendas evidence, poet Ron Koertge (Sex World; Now Playing: Stoner & […]
IF I WERE THE OCEAN, I’D CARRY YOU HOME Featured in Shelf Unbound
Date: October 17, 2022
Full of warmth, terror, and underhanded humor, If I Were the Ocean, I’d Carry You Home, Pete Hsu’s debut story collection, captures the essences of surviving in a life set […]
Independent Book Review Reviews COFFEE, SHOPPING, MURDER, LOVE by Carlos Allende!
Date: October 17, 2022
Coffee, Shopping, Murder, Love is Carlos Allende’s Quill Prize-winning novel from Red Hen Press. Readers will embark on a riotous, ribald, and somehow still laughter-inducing ride, from a terrible first date […]