Percival Everett recieves Corrington Award for Literary Excellence
Date: March 16, 2020
We'd like to congratulate Percival Everett, the
News & Reviews
News:
Elise Paschen on NPR
Date: March 16, 2020
Congrats to Eloise!
Date: March 16, 2020
“The Nightlife” shortlisted for the 2017 Chicago Review of Books Awards!
Date: March 16, 2020
THE NIGHTLIFE by Red Hen Author Elise Paschen has been
Mitchell Douglas nominated for a Hurston/Wright!
Date: March 16, 2020
Mitchell Douglas, author of Cooling Board: A Long Playing Poem, has been nominated for a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, in the Poetry category. Congratulations Mitchell! More info here.
Camille Dungy on Verse Daily and PSA
Date: March 16, 2020
The Poetry Society of America has a great interview with Camille Dungy about that nebulously national literature, American Poetry. Read the full thing here. Her poem “Sunday Morning,” from her new […]
Allow Us to Introduce You to Louise Wareham Leonard’s 52 MEN!”
Date: March 16, 2020
Louise Wareham Leonard’s, 52 Men, is an intense “micro-novel” that captures the emotional and physical possibilities of encounters between 52 men and one woman in the Manhattan of the late twentieth […]
Amy Uyematsu Writes for Huffington Post
Date: March 16, 2020
Author Amy Uyematsu wrote a post for Huffington Post about growing up in a time where there weren't many other Asian-American poets, and how that has had a large impact […]
Red Hen author Verónica Reyes featured in The Advocate
Date: March 16, 2020
Red Hen author, Verónica Reyes, is featured in The Advocate for her recent Lambda Award nomination. The Lambda Award is sponsored by The Lambda Literary Foundation that "nurtures, celebrates, and […]
Ron Koertge Writes for Huffington Post!
Date: March 16, 2020
Author Ron Koertge wrote a post for Huffington Post about why he loves to write flash fiction: “Flash fiction doesn’t mind giving pleasure. It has a palpable level of affection for its […]
Reviews:
Kenyon Review: After Rubén
Date: June 4, 2020
A champion of contemporary Latinx poetry, Francisco Aragón returns with his third collection, After Rubén (Red Hen Press). A scholar, translator, and the son of Nicaraguan immigrants, Aragón draws inspiration from the life […]
Shelf Awareness: Moon Jar review
Date: June 4, 2020
In her moving debut collection, poet Didi Jackson creates a poetics of grief to cope with the suicide of her husband. Moon Jar is a testament to resilience. Split into three […]
Historical Novel Society: Glorious Boy
Date: June 3, 2020
1942: Clair and Shep Durant, along with their mute four-year-old son, Ty, wait for evacuation to India before the imminent Japanese invasion of the remote Andaman Islands. Shep, a doctor, […]
Seattle Book Review: Glorious Boy
Date: June 3, 2020
Bound by ambition and a sense of adventure, Claire and Shep Durant journey to the Andaman Islands, a remote part of colonial India, in 1936. They dive deep into their […]
LARB: Wanting to Turn Back Time: On Aimee Liu’s “Glorious Boy”
Date: June 3, 2020
ON THE FRONT COVER of Aimee Liu’s Glorious Boy there is a palm-lined cove under a twilight sky. Unspoiled by modernity, this looks like island escapism, with no indication this is a […]
Asian Review of Books: Glorious Boy by Aimee Liu
Date: June 3, 2020
Channeling some past classics also skeptical of the colonial enterprise, Glorious Boy stands out from the crowded shelves of World War II literature by immersing the reader in one of the remoter […]
Library Journal: Glorious Boy starred review
Date: June 3, 2020
Liu’s eponymous “glorious boy” exists at the intersection of families, communities, countries, cultures—and, for a while, life and death. His spirited, adventurous parents—Shep, a British doctor obsessed with the healing […]
Times Standard: Books and More: New novel set during Vietnam War
Date: June 3, 2020
A newly released novel, “Her Sister’s Tattoo” by Ellen Meeropol, was brought to my attention and it struck a soft spot I thought was long buried. Like so many of you, as […]
Adroit Journal: Father as God and Monster: A Review of Don’t Go Crazy Without Me by Deborah A. Lott
Date: June 3, 2020
Sometimes, you can judge a book by its cover. Consider the cover image for Deborah A. Lott’s memoir Don’t Go Crazy Without Me (Red Hen Press): a chubby adult male dressed in blue velvet […]
Rain Taxi: Subduction reviewed by Douglas Cole
Date: June 3, 2020
Subduction is most of all a story of displacement and dislocation: for Claudia, whose Latina heritage lies over a border and whose sense of family lies beyond the betrayal that […]