Date: April 8, 2025
“I grew up in a two-family house in the Armenian enclave of East Watertown, Massachusetts. My parents, my sister, and I lived on the ground floor, and my grandmother and […]
Date: April 8, 2025
Lara Ehrlich’s upcoming novel, Bind Me Tighter Still—set to be released this September—is featured in Every Book a Doorway. The reviewer praises the book’s originality, writing that it contains ideas […]
Date: April 8, 2025
April Ossmann was recently interviewed by The Reporter, where she reflected on her literary journey and discussed how rising political tensions in the United States since 2015 have shaped the […]
Date: April 8, 2025
In Cynthia Hogue’s tenth collection of poetry, instead, it is dark, she explores the lingering ghosts of war after her husband suffers a heart attack and recounts dreams of his […]
Date: April 7, 2025
Vanishing: A Love Story — a documentary by Sandra Luckow receiving a preview screening at Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 63 High St. on April 8 at 7 p.m., with a Q&A with the director […]
Date: April 2, 2025
Malia Márquez’s City of Smoke and Sea is featured in Alta Journal’s “13 New Books for April” — a list of titles their editors are excited about.
Date: April 1, 2025
The Sea Gives Up the Dead by Molly Olguín has been selected as one of Ms. Magazine’s Most Anticipated Feminist Books of 2025! Author Karla J. Strand shared her excitement […]
Date: March 18, 2025
Poet Elise Paschen was recently featured in WBEZ Chicago, where she discussed Kitihawa, who, alongside her husband Jean Baptiste Point Du Sable, founded the city of Chicago. During the interview […]
Date: March 4, 2025
In 1994, Kate Gale and Mark E. Cull co-founded Red Hen Press from their Los Angeles home, selling nearly all they owned to begin publishing poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction from talented writers. Today, Red […]
Date: February 20, 2025
Poet Kim Dower, author of “What She Wants: Poems on Obsession, Desire, Despair, Euphoria,” joined us to share her latest poetry collection.
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 […]
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 & […]
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 […]
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 […]
Date: October 3, 2022
“Hell,” wrote Percy Shelley in 1819, “is a city much like London.” A hundred and twenty years later Bertolt Brecht, who fled the Nazis for Santa Monica, volunteered a different […]
Date: September 28, 2022
The Healing Circle by Coco Picard is a lyrical novel—written in sketches and short chapters that feel like jabs—about dying, and much more, happening across past and present timelines, dipping in […]
Date: September 26, 2022
“The novel’s surreal atmosphere is grounded by mundane details, as of the hot tea that John offers Eli upon his arrival, and the rabbit’s foot charm dangling from the rearview […]
Date: September 17, 2022
HOPE, WHEN HELD past the point of reason, is liable to transform into a certain kind of absurdity. Over the course of The Healing Circle — the latest novel from writer, artist, […]
Date: September 12, 2022
Northampton author Ellen Meeropol used her first four novels to explore how a range of social and political issues, from the rise of the U.S. security state in the aftermath […]
Date: September 12, 2022
“Since all around us refugees seem to be fleeing from something, one must ask from what they themselves flee—and that it’s hard to imagine there is anywhere left one can go […]
