Substantial Q&A with Didi Jackson on MOON JAR. Thank you Adroit Journal!
Date: December 9, 2020
Benjamin Aleshire sits down with Didi Jackson in a conversation about her collection MOON JAR. Read the full interview here!
News & Reviews
News:
Tea by the Sea & High Skies featured in “books you may have missed”
Date: December 7, 2020
Photographer Matt Witt has a large list of media you may have missed. Donna Hemans’ Tea by the Sea and Tracy Daughtery’s High Skies have been featured in the list. […]
Rex Wilder and Ron Koertge to present at Vroman’s Bookstore virtual event!
Date: December 7, 2020
In this urgent outpouring of American voices, our poets speak to us as they shelter in place, addressing our collective fear, grief, and hope from eloquent and diverse individual perspectives. […]
ANIMAL WIFE wins BEST book cover of the year at Electric Literature!
Date: December 7, 2020
Thank you all for voting! Congratulations to Lara Ehrlich (author), Caitlin Sacks (designer of ANIMAL WIFE) and everyone else at Red Hen. Here is a brief snippet of the article […]
Q&A with Jennifer Risher, writing on tough topics!
Date: December 7, 2020
Marion Roach Smith sits down with Jennifer Risher, author of WE NEED TO TALK: A MEMOIR ABOUT WEALTH for a questions and answers podcast/interview. This topic includes writing on the […]
Excerpt from THE PRESENCE OF THINGS PAST translated into Italian!
Date: December 7, 2020
” I had been there twice, but by now so many years had gone by that I had to ask the girl in the office where it was. She gave me […]
THE LIKELY WORLD by Melanie Conroy-Goldman, on Lit Reactor’s staff picks of best books in 2020!
Date: December 7, 2020
Thank you Lit Reactor! Read the rest of their list here!
Listen to Elise Paschen as she reads Heritage, X for the Library of Congress
Date: December 3, 2020
Elise Paschen reads and discusses her poem “Heritage, X” on July 13, 2020, from her study in Harbert, Michigan. Paschen is the author of The Nightlife, Bestiary, Infidelities, and Houses: […]
ANIMAL WIFE on a holiday reading list from the Kenyon Review!
Date: December 2, 2020
ANIMAL WIFE by Lara Ehrlich, a collection of fairy tales that turn up the volume on the quiet desperation in the lives of women and girls until the characters scream, rage, […]
Coastal Shelf has featured one of Tina Schumann’s poems this week!
Date: December 2, 2020
Issue 1|2: “Nothing Personal” by Tina Schumann ~ Nothing Personal Is it the wind carousing the birch tree across the street?The reliable creak of the screen door, or the catssleeping […]
Reviews:
Kirkus reviews Christian Teresi’s WHAT MONSTERS YOU MAKE OF THEM
Date: September 9, 2024
“A cogent, skeptical collection that examines those whose stories are erased or preserved.”
Shelf Awareness reviews Eunice Hong’s MEMENTO MORI
Date: September 3, 2024
Eunice Hong’s exquisite debut Memento Mori won the 2021 Red Hen Press Fiction Award, chosen by judge Aimee Liu. Hong’s simple, well-worn opening line, “Once upon a time,” belies an intricate narrative […]
Library Journal reviews Percival Everett’s SONNETS FOR A MISSING KEY
Date: August 28, 2024
“VERDICT For enthusiasts of Percival’s writing”
Chicago Review of Books reviews Eunice Hong’s MEMENTO MORI
Date: August 26, 2024
“Our narrator’s story is painful and heart-breaking, a story of all we wish we could forget, a story of continuing to live even when you feel you don’t deserve it.”
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY features Percival Everett’s SONNETS FOR A MISSING KEY in THE MUST LIST!
Date: August 26, 2024
Thanks to Ryan Coleman, who wrote “Your favorite writer’s writer, Percival Everett, is now everyone’s fave thanks to American Fiction, the Oscar-nominated film adaptation of his book Erasure. His latest, a lyrical book of […]
PASADENA STAR-NEWS praises Percival Everett’s SONNETS FOR A MISSING KEY
Date: August 21, 2024
Huge thanks to Larry Wilson for this wonderful coverage!
Kirkus reviews Esinam Bediako’s BLOOD ON THE BRAIN
Date: August 21, 2024
“Smartly covers a few weeks of upheaval that push its heroine closer to adulthood.”
Lisa Russ Spaar reviews Didi Jackson’s MY INFINITY in the Second Acts column for the Adroit Journal!
Date: August 12, 2024
Poetry is hard to define even for those devoted to reading, writing, and studying it. “It is difficult,” William Carlos Williams famously wrote, “to get the news from poems,” but […]
KUOW Book Club reviews Kristen Millares Young’s SUBDUCTION
Date: August 7, 2024
Ultimately, this is what makes “Subduction” so effective and gut-wrenching: The characters are human, capable of great kindness and great corruption. The story feels lived in, like an old house […]
BookMarks reviews Jim Tilley’s RIPPLES IN THE FABRIC OF THE UNIVERSE
Date: July 29, 2024
What a great gift as Tilley proved to be a fine poet and a discerning observer of our world. Educated as a physicist with a PhD from Harvard and having […]