Foreword Reviews Book of the Day
Date: August 27, 2020
Sugar, Smoke, Song: “Sensuous and surprising…”
News & Reviews
News:
Book lunch to include music, cocktails and doughnuts
Date: August 27, 2020
Author Lara Ehrlich knows how to add a little razzle-dazzle to a virtual event. Ehrlich, whose award-winning short story collection, “Animal Wife,” will make its debut — virtually — next Tuesday, with […]
Sebastian Matthews’ Playlist for His Memoir “Beyond Repair”
Date: August 26, 2020
Beyond Repair by Sebastian Matthews In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include […]
Are We Comfortable Encountering Strangers Anymore?
Date: August 26, 2020
Sebastian Matthews on Balancing Suspicion and Good Faith Beyond Repair is told through a series of encounters with friends and neighbors, colleagues and strangers, from early 2014 to spring 2019. […]
An Expert Explained To Me How Young Kids Process Death – Here’s What I Learned
Date: August 26, 2020
For once, my daughter Cora* is careful while descending the stairs and does not leap from the second step. She comes to me wide-eyed, cradling something in her fist. “It’s a ladybug,” […]
They Write By Night
Date: August 24, 2020
This video by Poetry.LA features Red Hen author William Anchila’s newest poem!
Issue Thirty-Four: Joshua Rivkin
Date: August 24, 2020
Poems from Joshua Rivkin’s SUITOR were featured in the Adroit Journal! Read here!
The Broad Stage’s Red Hen Press Poetry Hour Explores Timely Topics Through Verse & Performance
Date: August 20, 2020
Though the Broad Stage never anticipated that its 2020/21 season would take a virtual turn, this switch has allowed for an exceptional collaboration that would have been otherwise impossible: the […]
New Poetry Evokes A Fractured Landscape
Date: August 20, 2020
Book tours have been canceled since shelter-in-place began, so we’re bringing Bay Area author readings to you as part of our “New Arrivals” series. This one is from El Cerrito […]
A&E roundup: Pickens commissioned to create Wortham Center courtyard mural
Date: August 19, 2020
A few weeks after completing her role as one of the three lead artists on the Asheville Area Arts Council’s downtown Black Lives Matter mural, Jenny Pickens is hard at […]
Reviews:
Lillian-Yvonne Bertram: Historian and Cartographer
Date: April 17, 2014
Cristina Preda from The Operating System hails Lillian-Yvonne Bertram as both a historian and cartographer, as the poems in Betram's debut collection, But a Storm is Blowing from Paradise, take […]
Susanna Mishler Creates Tension in New Book
Date: April 17, 2014
The Anchorage Press gave an early review to Susanna Mishler's new book, Termination Dust, praising its buoyant use of imagery. Writer Katie Medred says Mishler's "knack for relaying and capturing […]
Verónica Reyes’ Chopper! Chopper! is proclaimed to be full of swagger” by Elaine Sexton”
Date: April 7, 2014
Elaine Sexton reviews Verónica Reyes' book of poetry Chopper! Chopper! and speaks volumes of Reyes' writing style in an article on Ron Slate's website On the Seawall. Sexton praises Reyes' […]
Ernest Hilbert Revives the Sonnet
Date: April 7, 2014
In a new review featured in the New Criterion, writer John Foy praises the so-called "Hilbertian sonnet" in Hilbert's latest book, All of You on the Good Earth. “With lines […]
Put This On, Please is Fun and Thought-provoking””
Date: April 7, 2014
William Trowbridge's new poetry collection, Put This On, Please, is "fun, approachable and thought-provoking," according to Shelf Awareness. "Trowbridge succeeds–making readers smile while plumbing something deeper than a giggle." Read […]
Dennis Must’s New Fantastical Novel
Date: April 7, 2014
Shelf Awareness calls Dennis Must's latest work, The World's Smallest Bible, perfect for fans of historical fiction. Check out the full review
The Meaning of Names is Beautifully colored prose””
Date: April 7, 2014
The Lincoln Journal Star recently reviewed Karen Shoemaker's The Meaning of Names, praising its unique blend of family stories and historical research. “Shoemaker writes with even, rhythmic, beautifully colored prose… […]
Sea Salt Is Praised by Angle
Date: April 2, 2014
David Mason's recent collection of poems, Sea Salt, was recently reviewed by Andrew Frisardi in the Spring/Summer edition of Angle. Frisardi praised Mason's lyric mastery: "Mason has mastered a fluid […]
Chopper! Chopper! is Dramatic and Bold””
Date: March 27, 2014
In a review of Veronica Reyes' Chopper! Chopper!, the poetry collection gets lauded as an "intimate portrait of her East L.A. neighborhood, family and local haunts with daring rhythm and […]
Gary Geddes Compared to Politico-poet Greats
Date: March 27, 2014
George Elliot Clarke of The Chronicle Herald calls Gary Geddes "proudly a political poet, though one whose honed lyrics ask for introspection and contemplation," and compares him to other celebrated […]