News:

NY Post: The best books of the week

Date: June 30, 2020

Tea by the SeaDonna Hemans (fiction, Red Hen Press)Plum Valentine’s daughter was taken from her the day after the baby was born, snatched, without explanation, by the girl’s father. Seventeen […]

The Rumpus: An Exploration of Belonging

Date: June 30, 2020

Jamaica-born writer Donna Hemans has been said to hear “life sung by a chorus, not a single voice.” Her plots are as intense as thrillers yet as resonant as poetry, and the lyricism and […]

Pigs on the TODAY show

Date: June 30, 2020

For June, the Read With Jenna book club dove into Megha Majumdar’s debut novel, “A Burning.” The book tackles themes of class, fate and corruption in contemporary India through the stories of […]

IPPY-Winning Poets Speak Out

Date: June 30, 2020

This year’s IPPY Awards had 148 entries into our two categories: Poetry– General and Poetry–Specialty. We awarded a total of 11 medals to poetry books; two each of gold, silver, […]

Psychology Today: Wrestling with Wealth

Date: June 30, 2020

When I got a job offer to be a campus recruiter at Microsoft in 1991, I had no idea how much good fortune was heading my way. I was 25 […]

Literary North interviews Didi Jackson

Date: June 30, 2020

Didi Jackson is a terrific poet. She writes accessible poems that are packed with startling imagery, art, precise language, and delicate emotions. She manages to make the shocking and heart-breaking […]

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Reviews:

Dale Van Every Reviews Silverstein and Me

Date: January 12, 2010

Although it saw extended periods of minimal contact, one of the friendships that lasted a lifetime for Silverstein was with childhood pal and fellow cartoonist Marv Gold. Gold’s recent memoir, […]

Deborah Bogen Reviews Cartographies

Date: January 12, 2010

Cartographies: Uncollected Poems: 1980-2005, by Maurya Simon (Red Hen Press, 2008)The cover of Cartographies is a photograph of a bronze by New Mexican sculptor, Katherine Wells. It’s a female torso […]

Susanna Roxman Review of Ghost Orchid

Date: January 12, 2010

Ghost Orchid by Maurya Simon, Red Hen Press, USA, 80 pp., ISBN 1-888996-84-6 In earlier poetry collections, such as The Golden Labyrinth (University of Missouri Press, 1995), set in India, […]

Profile of John Bowers

Date: January 7, 2010

Chronogram Magazine (Dec. 09 issue.) Profile and Review of Love in Tennessee

Tennessee Waltz: John Bowers Looks Homeward

Date: December 16, 2009

Chronogram Magazine reveiws Love in TennesseeTennessee WaltzJohn Bowers Looks Homewardby Nina Shengold and photographs by Jennifer May, November 25, 2009American literature has its own railroad map, with tracks that meander […]

Illuminating Fiction reviewed in Publishers Weekly

Date: December 8, 2009

Among the 19 authors Ellis interviewed for this book, there are two points of consensus. Almost all of the interviewees call revision the most essential element of successful writing, and […]

Marjorie Maddox’s review on BookMarks

Date: November 28, 2009

“Indeed, as Timothy Green claims in Hiking Alone, perhaps all we ever want is a little darkness to climb out of. In American Fractal, he provides the dark, the light, […]

Barbara Crooker’s review in Mid-American Review

Date: November 28, 2009

Opening Timothy Green’s first full-length collection is like entering a fun house and stepping into the room where distorted mirrors reflect back into themselves ad infinitum. The concept of the […]

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