The Story Prize: Featured Instagram Post by Lara Ehrlich
Date: July 20, 2020
This post, by Lara Ehrlich, author of Animal wife, is the 32nd in a series of posts by writers whose books have been entered for The Story Prize in 2020.“This […]
News & Reviews
News:
Ep. 12: Chelsea Catherine
Date: July 20, 2020
Chelsea Catherine is a native Vermonter living in St. Petersburg, FL. Most recently, she won the Mary C Mohr nonfiction award through the Southern Indiana Review and her book, “Summer […]
Skylit Interview: Kristen Millares Young, SUBDUCTION
Date: July 20, 2020
Fleeing the shattered remains of her marriage and a betrayal by her sister, in the throes of a midlife freefall, Latina anthropologist Claudia Ranks retreats from Seattle to Neah Bay, […]
AN AMERICAN HISTORY SUMMER READING LIST
Date: July 20, 2020
This remarkable novel, just published in April 2020, opens with a 1968 Detroit anti–Vietnam War peace march when “guerrilla theater tactics” that results in an injured policeman, and the two […]
Poet Lory Bedikian says poetry is her release
Date: July 16, 2020
When Lory Bedikian was a girl, she sat under her parents’ orange tree in the backyard and collected flowers and took the leaves and blossoms and rolled them up like […]
Hoopla: July Riveting Reads
Date: July 16, 2020
Hoopla featured Aimee Liu’s Glorious Boy on their list of Riveting Reads for July 2020. Find the entire list here.
#HalfMyDAF Announces First Matching Grants to 147 Nonprofits
Date: July 16, 2020
#HalfMyDAF today announced the results of its first grant-matching drawing to support nonprofits and their work. The organization will give $600,000 in matching grants to 147 nonprofits in 30 states […]
Red Hen Press Poetry Hour revamps for second season return
Date: July 16, 2020
Covid-19 is still preventing locals from gathering for entertainment purposes, but The Broad Stage and LA-based publisher Red Hen Press are excited to begin season two of the Red Hen […]
Lory Bedikian Shares Armenian Experience on “Finding Truths and Creating Arts”
Date: July 16, 2020
The Broad State and Red Hen Press are hosting an episode of “Finding Truths and Creating Arts” on July 16 at 6 pm (PST) via Facebook live and on their […]
What We Leave Behind: Learning About Resilience From Boney M’s “By the Rivers of Babylon”
Date: July 15, 2020
Sound falls away, and my immediate surroundings are so quiet it feels life is limited to just two sounds: Boney M’s 1978 hit “By the Rivers of Babylon” playing on […]
Reviews:
Readers’ Favorite calls Diane Thiel’s QUESTIONS FROM OUTER SPACE “a treasure trove of intelligent musings”!
Date: August 3, 2022
Diane Thiel’s much-awaited anthology of poetry, Questions from Outer Space, is worth the wait. This collection is divided into four parts, each touching on a particular subject or idea that […]
Diane Thiel’s QUESTIONS FROM OUTER SPACE Reviewed on The Line Break!
Date: July 21, 2022
Diane Thiel is the author of eleven books of poetry, nonfiction, and creative writing pedagogy, and Questions from Outer Space (Red Hen Press, 2022) is her third collection of poems. I purchased […]
‘Pamela Uschuk’s REFUGEE – Poems of Beauty & Anger’ A Review by Joseph Ross
Date: July 21, 2022
Pamela Uschuk is, in my view, one of our country’s best poets. Her new book, REFUGEE, shows precisely why. Her poems rise up from careful craft, scattering beauty, detailed descriptions, merged […]
‘Technology and Human Connection’ a Review Of I ONLY CRY WITH EMOTICONS
Date: July 21, 2022
Yuvi Zalkow’s I Only Cry with Emoticons tells the story of a damaged man trying to finish his novel as he wades through divorce, an unfulfilling work life, and complex […]
Diane Thiel’s QUESTIONS FROM OUTER SPACE reviewed by Colorado State University!
Date: July 11, 2022
Questions From Outer Space is about coming to terms with humanity’s destructive choices and orienting ourselves to life as a result. Diane Thiel’s poems lament our destruction of planet Earth and […]
the arts fuse reviews Carlos Allende’s COFFEE, SHOPPING, MURDER, LOVE!
Date: July 7, 2022
Coffee, Shopping, Murder, Love is a delightful beach read, a lampoon of American culture that provides plenty of suspenseful fun.
Carlos Allende’s COFFEE, SHOPPING, MURDER, LOVE reviewed by Seattle Book Review!
Date: July 7, 2022
Charlie, who has never found anything he doesn’t like to talk about, and Jignesh, a quiet, overweight East Indian business manager and embezzler, meet through a gay dating site. They […]
Novelist Kate Rounds reviews John Weir’s YOUR NOSTALGIA IS KILLING ME!
Date: July 6, 2022
For three decades, the novelist and short story writer John Weir has been spooling out wry, wrenching narratives that ground us in time and place. Now, Red Hen Press has […]
Yuvi Zalkow’s I ONLY CRY WITH EMOTICONS Reviewed in The Arts Fuse!
Date: July 5, 2022
Yuvi Zalkow’s novel I Only Cry with Emoticons is a defense of the personal encounter. As technology has become more advanced, we have become increasingly reliant on communicating via screens. Emojis have […]
Eamon Grennan’s PLAINCHANT reviewed by Poetry Foundation!
Date: June 29, 2022
Set as justified rectangles of text, often comprising a single, elaborate sentence on a page, the poems in Eamon Grennan’s new collection Plainchant (“these plain words—to be taken out at times of need”) appear […]