Joshua Rivkin featured in Poems.com poem of the day!
Date: October 12, 2020
Rivkin’s piece “New Economy” was featured on Poems.com Friday, October 9th, 2020. To read the poem in it’s entirety visit the link below.
News & Reviews
News:
Reema Rajbanshi & Aimee Liu’s books have been featured in Frolic!
Date: October 12, 2020
Reema Rajbanshi’s SUGAR, SMOKE, SONG and Aimee Liu’s GLORIOUS BOY were featured to Frolic’s 10 New Indie Books to add to your bookstack! Thanks Frolic! Read the rest of the […]
2020 Great Group Reads Selections
Date: October 8, 2020
Women’s National Book Association features TEA BY THE SEA: The 2020 Great Group Reads selections have been chosen! This year’s list features books from a wide-range of styles and from […]
Jennifer Risher’s WE NEED TO TALK: A MEMOIR ABOUT WEALTH, featured in Leadership Story Lab’s newsletter.
Date: October 7, 2020
Read the full Jennifer Risher interview here! “I recently received my copy of Jennifer Risher’s new book, We Need to Talk: A Memoir About Wealth in the mail and I’m excited to dig […]
Amy Shearn, the author of UNSEEN CITY, has an article published on Forge.
Date: October 7, 2020
“The news of the past few days has inspired a flurry of group texts and confused conversations among my friends and colleagues. And the general consensus is that no one knows how to feel […]
ANIMAL WIFE featured in Fresh Ink Book Editing newsletter, read here!
Date: October 7, 2020
From the Fresh Ink Book Editing newsletter, Maya Rock interviews Lara Ehrlich author of ANIMAL WIFE. Read the full interview below! And be sure to visit Fresh Ink Book Editing’s […]
ANIMAL WIFE shoutout from Bartleby’s Books in their most recent newsletter.
Date: October 5, 2020
Red Hen Press would like to extend their most gracious thanks to Bartleby’s Books from Wilmington, Vermont. In their most recent newsletter Bartleby’s Books speaks of Lara Ehrlich’s debut short […]
Animal Wife a contender in Parade’s BEST book covers this fall!
Date: October 5, 2020
Animal Wife by Lara Ehrlich: Animal Wife is a collection of fifteen stories about girls and women who are seeking liberation. From family, from society, and from themselves. You’ll read about a girl born […]
Conversation with Lara Ehrlich – Midwest Writers Workshop
Date: October 5, 2020
Watch MWW YouTube “Conversation with an Author” Midwest Writers Workshop presents another installment of our “Conversation with an Author” series. MWW board member Lylanne Musselman’s talked with MWW alum Lara […]
Scoundrel Time Article, “MY CULTURAL APPROPRIATION” by Deborah A. Lott
Date: October 5, 2020
“I recently saw photos of Instagram influencers who had darkened their faces in a misguided show of solidarity for Black Lives Matter. Their efforts made me cringe and reminded me […]
Reviews:
Beth Ann Fennelly, The Southern Register
Date: April 16, 2009
"In the debut collection from Kentucky poet Nickole Brown, readers experience the pleasures of poetry "the illuminated moment reverberating" as well as the pleasures of the novel–the narrative unfurling, driven […]
Cynthia Arrieu-King, Diagram
Date: April 16, 2009
"If you feel that high emotion and unalienated confession is not art, as Slavoj Zizek might assert that it cops to the System where the individual is valued for trying […]
Ely Shipley, Quarterly West
Date: April 16, 2009
"Brown's awareness of the book's form, its how in addition to its what, allows for these poems' rich complexities. The order not only forms a linear narrative, but layers experience. […]
Julie Enszer, Lambda Book Report
Date: April 16, 2009
"The strength of Sister is in the details, some of which are constructed through Brown's diction, which is gently infused with a southern dialect but resists caricature. She writes of […]
Melanie Jordan, Southern Indiana Review
Date: April 16, 2009
"To write of one's own conception, gestation, birth"to write convincingly of unknowable-yet-familiar moments: that is the power of poetry and the power of Nickole Brown's debut, Sister, a self-styled "novel-in-poems.' […]
American Poet: The Journal of The Academy of American Poets
Date: April 16, 2009
"Nickole Brown's poems marry an enthralling and tormented narrative with woven, specific lyricism to create a layered progression through a difficult past. Brown has immediate access to how the situations […]
Cate Marvin, Ploughshares
Date: April 16, 2009
"Using umbilicus as guide rail, the speaker of Nickole Brown's Sister–an unflinching and deeply intelligent first book–undertakes a hair-lifting expedition back to her childhood so as to return herself to […]
Erica Wright, ForeWord Magazine
Date: April 16, 2009
"It would be easy to say that this collection is an indictment, but there is nothing easy about these poems. They are each skillfully wrought pieces about impossible subjects. . […]
Publishers Weekly, August 2007
Date: April 16, 2009
"Brown's forthright debut opens with an intimate address to a sister: "I tell you this story because it is / the story we need / to believe our offal is […]
Time Out London, April 24, 2008
Date: April 14, 2009
Time Out LondonMotel Girl (Red Hen Press) is the debut collection of New York writer Greg Sanders. Like many debut collections it draws material from a decade of writing, going […]