Interview Q&A with Kristen Millares Young in VOL. 1 Brooklyn
Date: November 18, 2020
You evoke the landscape of Neah Bay incredibly well here; I’ve never been, but I felt a tactile sense of the place. How did you first become familiar with it? […]
News & Reviews
News:
Mary Odden (Mostly Water) is featured in Alaska Magazine this month!
Date: November 18, 2020
Boreal Books / Red Hen author, Mary Odden (Mostly Water: Reflections Rural and North, June 2020) is featured in the November 2020 issue of Alaska Magazine. Her article, “Once More […]
Kristen Millares Young article in The Rumpus!
Date: November 16, 2020
As editor of SEISMIC:Seattle, City of Literature, I asked artists and storytellers to reflect on what it means for Seattle to be a City of Literature. While celebrating Seattle’s inclusion in […]
Virtual Book Launch/Reading with Ellen Meeropol Dec. 3rd!
Date: November 16, 2020
Join Writers in Progress on December 3rd for a Virtual reading + book launch with three authors, including one Red Hen author Ellen Meeropol!
“Ellen Meeropol gorgeous novel is a must read…” an exclusive interview with Ellen Meeropol!
Date: November 16, 2020
“even if I’m still skeptical that the 1960s qualify as historical fiction! A story of sibling love and tensions set against a backdrop of protests of the Vietnam war.” Listen […]
Keith Flynn featured on Poetry at the Dalí
Date: November 12, 2020
Join us on YouTube for this special streaming installment of our Poetry at The Dalí series. Poetry at The Dalí is an ongoing series hosted by St. Petersburg Poet Laureate, Helen Wallace. Occurring on […]
Another Podcast features Jen Risher this week about her book! Recap the Whole Women Power Wealth Show Pod
Date: November 11, 2020
Listen to Jennifer Risher talk about wealth and her book in the Lindsay Simond’s Consulting Podcast!
Date: November 11, 2020
When it comes to money-related issues, mum’s the word. Talking about wealth right now couldn’t be more charged. Did you know that 8 out of 10 people who are wealthy […]
Subduction recommended by High Country News!
Date: November 11, 2020
One of the books I read this year and loved (and keep recommending!) is Kristen Millares Young’s Subduction, set on the Makah Reservation in Neah Bay, Washington. The story follows two […]
Rebecca McClanahan Interview with Laraine Herring
Date: November 10, 2020
I met Rebecca McClanahan on Facebook. I have not yet had the pleasure of meeting her in person. I saw the cover of her new memoir in essays: In the […]
Reviews:
ANIMAL WIFE gets a 5 star review from the Lisa Albright of the GirlyBookClub!
Date: January 4, 2021
5 stars I wasn’t sure what to expect with this collection of short stories and I don’t read them often so I was pleasantly surprised to find that once I […]
Throwback to the Brevity Nonfiction review of Julia Koets’ THE RIB JOINT!
Date: December 16, 2020
The lyric essay form, reliant on gaps and fragmentation, beautifully aligns with Koets’ own experience of compression and expansion, as her narrator moves from a closeted existence to one of […]
A thoughtful review of Danielle Vogel’s THE WAY A LINE HALLUCINATES ITS OWN LINEARITY
Date: December 14, 2020
Author/Editor/Poet Rob Mclennan in his blog, reviews Danielle Vogel’s collection THE WAY A LINE HALLUCINATES ITS OWN LINEARITY. The author of Between Grammars (Noemi Press, 2015) and Edges & Fray (Wesleyan University Press, 2019) […]
New Review of SUITOR by The Georgia Review!
Date: December 10, 2020
We are all, in this pandemic, a living elegy; there are loves, possibilities, selves, ways of life that are dead, a mobile mortality poets have always known and used their […]
#Throwback review of Gaylord Brewer’s WORSHIP THE PIG!
Date: December 2, 2020
It’s difficult for me to find comparisons to these poems. There are qualities that bring to mind Milosz’s humble prophesies or the earthy divinities of Robert Bly. Some of Brewer’s […]
WAVE IF YOU CAN SEE ME, Susan Ludvigson’s poetry collection reviewed by ZYZZYVA
Date: November 30, 2020
Ludvigson’s poems are quiet and linguistically unadorned, a testament to the starkness of bereavement. Despite the simplicity of her language, Ludvigson dedicates many of her poems to the careful description […]
THE WILDERNESS featured in Green Mountains Review
Date: November 30, 2020
Maurya Simon’s The Wilderness: New and Selected Poems 1980-2016 (Red Hen Press 2018, 218 pages) represents a life of questioning and perception, whether the scene is a backyard or a street in […]
Alaskan Blog 49 Writers sheds light on EVERY ATOM by Erin Coughlin Hollowell
Date: November 18, 2020
Reading Erin Coughlin Hollowell’s Every Atom, a book of poems about her aging mother, reminds me of my grandmother’s history. Like Gracie, Hollowell was her mother’s youngest, born when her […]
Chelsea Catherine’s SUMMER OF THE CICADAS given praise in review from Amos Lassen!
Date: November 4, 2020
There are some books that become more than just reads, rather reading them becomes an experience. That is just how I felt with “Summer of the Cicadas”.
Thoughtful input of Jennifer Risher’s WE NEED TO TALK: A MEMOIR ABOUT WEALTH from Washington Independent Review of Books
Date: October 28, 2020
Before delving into her own experience, however, Risher introduces the topic of wealth by depicting the expectations, gratitude, and worries that come with striking it rich. But hers is not […]