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. […]
News & Reviews
News:
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Reviews:
Wandering Spirit: ASU’s Cynthia Hogue is haunted and inspired by time spent in New Orleans” (Tucson Weekly)”
Date: March 16, 2020
In the lead-up to the 2011 Tucson Book Festival, Jarret Keene published this review of Cynthia Hogue’s Or Consequence–in the Tucson Weekly (10 March 2011).
David Mason’s Book Reviewed by The Dark Horse Magazine
Date: March 16, 2020
Sea Salt by David Mason was reviewed by The Dark Horse in their Autumn/Winter 2015 issue. It’s pretty exciting to read such a great review all the way from Scotland: “Reading Sea Salt is to […]
Mary Jo Salter reviews About Face
Date: March 16, 2020
Gazette Net commends On Hurricane Island for the questions it poses about freedom!
Date: March 16, 2020
Steve Pfarrer of Gazette Net explores questions On Hurricane Island brings to the table: “Told from the perspective of a number of other characters, from both sides of the country’s political divide, […]
Review of BECOMING LYLA DORE
Date: March 16, 2020
Reviewed by Cindy Hochman from Skullwise Cat (page 69) “Teri Youmans Grimm’s account is as ambitious and seductive as Lyla Dore herself. With poems that unfold as grandly as scenes from the […]
The Los Angeles Times, December 28, 2008
Date: March 16, 2020
Describing people, creating them from the ground up, is a slippery thing. They don’t stand still, like objects. Every fresh breeze, new thought, distant sound sets them trembling like leaves […]
New Pages Raves about If Not For This
Date: March 16, 2020
Jason Hess writes for New Pages, applauding If Not For This for its poignancy. “Pete Fromm’s If Not For This was the most moving novel I read in 2014…Fromm packs a lifetime […]
New Pages calls Andrea’s work a poetic fusion
Date: March 16, 2020
Katie Rensch reviews Andrea Scarpino’s book of poetry Once, Then in New Pages, and commends its tender language. “These poems are intensely observational and perceptive…Whether describing the death of a childhood apple tree […]
Joanne Baines at RATTLE
Date: March 16, 2020
“As with all of the best books of poems, read it until it is wrecked.”
Amy Elisabeth Hansen gives Once, Then her highest praise
Date: March 16, 2020
Over the weekend, Amy Elisabeth Hansen of Passages North Literary Journal reviewed Andrea Scarpino’s Once, Then, calling it “a monument to people and times past.” Hansen writes, “These poems work like gifts, maybe […]