Date: February 14, 2024
Alice Waters thinks David Mas Masumoto’s peaches could change the world. Today, Masumoto shares his search for the perfect peach and the shocking family secret that changed the history of […]
Date: February 14, 2024
In early January the American Academy of Poets elected Afaa M. Weaver, Diane Seuss, and Jericho Brown to its Board of Chancellors. I was thrilled by the news, because these […]
Date: February 1, 2024
Check out Henrietta Thornton’s review of NOW YOU OWE ME by debut Red Hen Press author ALIAH WRIGHT published in firstCLUE! “Readers are drawn into a gripping tale—I read it […]
Date: January 31, 2024
“A few years ago, my niece gave me a rock that says ‘you rock’ on it. I put it on my desk because I thought it was cute, but I […]
Date: January 31, 2024
The Winter 2024 issue of The Kenyon Review includes an essay by Carrie Cogan, the winner of the 2023 Kenyon Review Nonfiction Contest, selected by Leslie Jamison; work by the 2021 Kenyon Review Developmental […]
Date: January 24, 2024
Listening in Deep Space BY DIANE THIEL We’ve always been out looking for answers, telling stories about ourselves, searching for connection, choosing to send out Stravinsky and whale song, which, in […]
Date: January 24, 2024
Diane Thiel has lived in Europe and South America and is fluent in several languages. A 2001 Fulbright Scholar and recipient of the Robert Frost and Robinson Jeffers awards, Thiel […]
Date: January 15, 2024
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Date: January 9, 2024
Combing through our Best of Indie list is always an interesting end-of-year exercise. Which trend percolated through our sample size of 100 books in 2023? Stewardship, a call for protection of […]
Date: January 8, 2024
“I was 16 when my father came home from his three-month stay in the mental hospital. I kept him company as he unpacked his suitcase and carefully, robotically, put away […]
Date: September 8, 2022
By Charles Rammelkamp “we are what happens by accident,” Joshua Rivkin writes in the first “Envoi” of this lyrical, emotionally probing collection, and goes on: Suitor, from the Latin secutor, to […]
Date: September 8, 2022
Judy Grahn’s Touching Creatures, Touching Spirit is a thought-provoking study of relationships between human and nonhuman creatures and spirits. It collects ten nonfiction essays, divided into three parts, with a vivid record […]
Date: August 22, 2022
“’So you think that you can live remote / from city streets paved with bullet casings, / mass shootings in churches, refugee mothers in cages,’ Pamela Uschuk questions in ‘A […]
Date: August 21, 2022
Boreal Books, founded and edited by Peggy Shumaker, a former Alaska writer laureate, has since 2008 been publishing exemplary poetry and prose by Alaskans. This summer it’s brought forth two […]
Date: August 9, 2022
“Inside their heads, humans are caught in a civil war between the little gleam of intelligence they want to believe is them and the animal which that spark of intelligence evolved to […]
Date: August 8, 2022
“Set in rural China during the 1970s, Ruyan Meng’s debut novel Only the Cat Knows is told from the point of view of a young factory worker married to a woman who […]
Date: August 4, 2022
“A bicycle on which to commute to work. A sewing machine with which to sew new clothes. Eggs, milk, and meat to cure his children of malnutrition. These are a […]
Date: August 3, 2022
The Discarded Life: Poems, by Adam Kirsch (Red Hen): “Do details matter?” asks the poet Adam Kirsch in his new collection The Discarded Life—and even if they don’t, the perspicuity […]
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 […]
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 […]
