Poets on Craft: Tina Schumann and Jenna Le
Date: August 10, 2020
Poets on Craft is a cyberspace for contemporary poets to share their thoughts and ideas on the process of poetry and for students to discover new ways of approaching the writing […]
News & Reviews
News:
Rockin’ Your Health Radio: Sebastian Matthews
Date: August 3, 2020
Listen to the full episode here.
Akron native pens story of love, loyalty and friendship
Date: August 3, 2020
The coming-of-age story of four boys in the High Country of western North Carolina after World War II, “The Falls of the Wyona” is a poignant, lyrical novella by Akron […]
A Poet of Found Language Who Finds Her Language in Archives
Date: August 3, 2020
“One must cross the threshold heart of words,” Susan Howe writes early in her new book, “Concordance,” an appealingly jagged sequence of collage poems. The “threshold heart,” for Howe, is […]
19 Books by Hispanic Authors
Date: August 3, 2020
If you’re looking for some new books to dive into while you’re stuck at home, then you might want to consider some of the many great books by Hispanic authors. […]
5 Books You May Have Missed in June
Date: July 27, 2020
Each month I comb through hundreds of titles to choose the five I list here, and each month I come up with 30 to 50 that are worthy of consideration. […]
Vanity Fair: Admiration Society
Date: July 27, 2020
Lysley Tenorio, author of the trenchant family comedy The Son of Good Fortune, recommends The Likely World by Melanie Conroy Goldman. Check out the full feature in the July/August 2020 […]
10 Black Poets of Past and Present Who Deserve Unending Recognition for Their Work
Date: July 22, 2020
As a child, the first poem Tracie Morris, PhD, read by a Black writer was “Mother to Son” by Langston Hughes. Decades later, when Dr. Morris—now a distinguished visiting professor at the Iowa […]
Red Hen Press Poetry Hour with The Broad Stage
Date: July 22, 2020
The Red Hen Press Poetry Hour, in partnership with the Broad Stage, has returned for a second season! In this feature by Spectrum News 1 (LAX), learn more about the […]
Without Books Episode 15: Lara Ehrlich
Date: July 22, 2020
Lara Ehrlich is the author of the short story collection Animal Wife (Red Hen Press, Sept 2020), which won Red Hen’s Fiction Award, judged by Ann Hood. Lara lives in […]
Reviews:
Review: Open the Dark by Marie Tozier
Date: July 27, 2020
Marie Tozier’s new book, Open the Dark, is a lyrical guide to the life in Northwest Alaska experienced by the Iñupiaq poet and her family. It touches on themes that can be […]
The Fragile Human: A Review Of Tess Taylor’s Rift Zone And Last West, Roadsongs For Dorothea Lange
Date: July 20, 2020
“Whose fault // our fault” the poem “Three Dreams, 2018” opens. Tess Taylor’s fourth collection of poems, Rift Zone, tenders to her reader the language of fault, rift and fracture as her […]
Poetry Book Review: Suitor by Joshua Rivkin
Date: July 20, 2020
In part one (titled “Suitors”) of Rivkin’s sharp debut, a long poem in sections cataloguing his mother’s appalling boyfriends, the speaker recalls one priceless specimen who, for Halloween, dressed as […]
Foreword Review: Sugar, Smoke, Song
Date: July 13, 2020
Reema Rajbanshi’s debut novel-in-stories Sugar, Smoke, Song collects its thematically linked pieces into three clusters with recurring characters. The first group, starting with “The Ruins,” centers on beautiful Indo-Burmese identical […]
Donna Hemans, “Tea by the Sea” Review
Date: July 13, 2020
A new father walks out of the hospital with his day-old baby while the mother recuperates from giving birth. He tells a series of lies and moves houses or countries […]
‘Her Sister’s Tattoo’ Is an Insightful and Compassionate Tale of Sisterhood and Activism
Date: July 13, 2020
Ellen Meeropol’s last name is famous among those of us who still recall the tragic case of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were put to death in 1953 after being […]
Toward Antarctica Review
Date: July 13, 2020
“CAN’T JUST GO. Can’t, more to the point, just arrive, land. You must prepare yourself,” writes the poet Elizabeth Bradfield, in Toward Antarctica, a marvelous book of prose, poems, and photographs that document her tenure as […]
Blog Tour: Tea by the Sea
Date: July 1, 2020
Thank you to the following blogs for featuring Donna Heman’s Tea by the Sea! The Livre Café Jessica Belmont Fiction Matters Everyday I Write the Book Never Without A Book […]
KIRKUS: Tea by the Sea
Date: July 1, 2020
A young mother goes on a quest to track down the father of her child, who abducted their baby daughter shortly after her birth. When Plum Valentine is in high […]
Publisher Weekly: The Likely World
Date: June 30, 2020
This skillful twist on the addiction narrative is worth a look.