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:
Christopher Connor of A Few More Words reviews Jim Tilley’s latest poetry collection, WHEN GODOT ARRIVED
Date: September 15, 2026
The possibilities in form throughout one poetry collection feel unimaginably wide. But consistency of form can reveal the true beauty of language, particularly for readers who are otherwise disinclined toward […]
Christopher Connor of A Few More Words reviews Nita Noveno’s latest memoir, MUD ON THE MOON
Date: September 15, 2026
It’s hard to imagine that our parents had lives and told us lies even before we were born. As we ourselves age, the gap widens between what we think we […]
Abrea Armstrong’s FERRY TALES Reviewed by Booklist
Date: September 8, 2026
“Perfect for readers interested in fiction that explores the interconnectedness of Africans at home and in the diaspora across generations.” — Enobong Tommelleo (Booklist Reviewer)
Liz Kay’s FALLOUT Reviewed by Booklist
Date: September 8, 2026
“…this is at heart a multigenerational family saga, set during the Cold War period in U.S. history and beautifully capturing the fear and turmoil people felt then. A great pick […]
North of Oxford reviews Luke Goebel’s latest novel, KILL DICK!
Date: September 1, 2026
Dick Sickler is the direct object in the title of Luke Goebel’s bizarre noir novel, the man “who had helped kill hundreds of thousands of people with opioids,” as Peter […]
Anchorage Daily News reviews Susan Campbell’s debut, THIS FAR NORTH!
Date: September 1, 2026
Two impressive new poetry books by Alaska women bring the fullness of their lives — their griefs, joys and questions — into artful contemplation and play. Both books are the […]
Kristen Millares Young’s DESIRE LINES Gets Starred on Shelf Awareness!
Date: August 4, 2026
Accomplished storyteller Kristen Millares Young’s communion with an ancient mother goddess and her quest to reconcile the incongruities of her “maddening matriarchs” provide an intriguing thematic framework for her first […]
Sundress Reads reviews Abi Pollokoff’s latest poetry collection, NIGHT MYTHS • • BEFORE THE BODY.
Date: August 4, 2026
Abi Pollokoff’s night myths • • before the body (Red Hen Press, 2025) is a tour de force of inventive language. She constructs an incredibly original poetic landscape via fragmentation, […]
North of Oxford reviews David Mason’s latest poetry collection, COLD FIRE!
Date: August 4, 2026
When reading the poetry of Mason, one comes to an understanding of a universality in all things. Similar, yet not, to Spinoza’s philosophy that the universe itself is God and […]
Michelle Sacks’s DANCING AT THE END OF THE WORLD Reviewed By Booklist
Date: August 1, 2026
“Tender and rich in their complexity, Sacks’ stories will remain with readers long after they finish the novel…”