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:
Soapberry Review features article on “Loss and surrealism in E.P. Tuazon’s Professional Lola”!
Date: May 8, 2024
I’m one of three children of immigrants from the Philippines. My mother and father came to the United States with their respective families in the ’60s and ’70s and met […]
I WORE THIS DRESS TODAY FOR YOU, MOM by Kim Dower Reviewed by Angel City Review
Date: May 2, 2024
There are few things more classically Freudian than autobiographical poems about a poet’s relationship with their mother, and this new collection by prolific former West Hollywood City Poet Laureate Kim […]
Southern Review of Books names DEER BLACK OUT by Ulrich Jesse K. Baer in their April 2024 lineup
Date: April 29, 2024
Check out the extensive list of The Best Southern Books of April 2024 by Southern Review of Books at the link below!
New West Indian Guide features review of Juliana Lamy’s YOU WERE WATCHING FROM THE SAND
Date: April 23, 2024
You Were Watching from the Sand (Pasadena CA: Red Hen, 2023, paper US$16.95), the debut short story collection by Haitian-born, South Florida-raised Harvard graduate Juliana Lamy, vividly portrays adolescent life […]
Léon Pradeau reviews Ulrich Jesse K. Baer’s DEER BLACK OUT on Verse of April
Date: April 23, 2024
I was driven, & I was moved. Your book travels through identities at night, like deer eyes I saw glowing over a road in upstate Wisconsin, arresting. Your words keep […]
Washington Independent Review of Books reviews Helen Benedict’s THE GOOD DEED
Date: April 23, 2024
Helen Benedict’s The Good Deed is an ambitious, gorgeously written novel about the lives of refugees and the failure of systems to care for these vulnerable survivors of wars and […]
Library Journal Review of A Professional Lola
Date: April 23, 2024
Southern California-based Filipino American writer Tuazon (The Cussing Cat Clock) brings to readers a collection of 13 short stories, 11 of which have been previously published in slightly different forms. […]
Ben Tripp reviews C. Bain’s SEX AUGURY!
Date: April 22, 2024
“…these poems are whittled down to an essence … tempered, imbued with speed, or like a spiral staircase in some cases, maybe appearing precarious (as precarious as life itself, the […]
Kirkus Reviews features review of Cheri Johnson’s ANNIKA ROSE!
Date: April 22, 2024
A coming-of-age tale combined with a pastoral horror story. Annika Rose Rogers graduates from high school with no real prospects for the future other than working alongside her father on […]
Soapberry Review calls Madeleine Nakamura’s CURSEBREAKERS “Literal healing magic”!
Date: April 10, 2024
Cursebreakers is a powerful debut novel by fantasy writer Madeleine Nakamura. Set in a magic-filled world adjacent to our own, we follow professor of magic Adrien Desfourneaux as he works to uncover […]