Judy Grahn Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry
Date: March 16, 2020
Red Hen Press is proud to announce that Judy Grahn’s book love belongs to those who do the feeling, published by Red Hen Press in 2008, won the 21st Annual Lambda Literary […]
News & Reviews
News:
David Mason was named the 2009 Thatcher Hoffman Smith Creativity in Motion Prize recipient.
Date: March 16, 2020
Poet David Mason, a professor of English at Colorado College, recently was named the 2009 Thatcher Hoffman Smith Creativity in Motion Prize recipient. The $40,000 will allow Mason to focus more […]
David Mason named Poet Laureate of Colorado!
Date: March 16, 2020
David Mason, author of Ludlow and News From the Village, has been named the next Poet Laureate of the great state of Colorado! Press release here. Some downloadabe info here. From the Governer’s Office: GOV. RITTER TO […]
Ron Koertge reading featured on Poetry.LA Video
Date: March 16, 2020
Ron Koertge reads with Andrea Scarpino and Mindy Nettifree at Beyond Baroque’s RED(D)DRESS series, curated by Red Hen’s own Brendan Constantine and filmed by the fine folks of Poetry.LA
Congratulations to Katharine Coles, a 2012 Guggenheim Fellow!
Date: March 16, 2020
Katharine Coles, the author Fault, as well as the forthcoming Flight and Reckless, has been named a 2012 Guggenheim Fellow! Congratulations, Kate! During her Guggenheim Fellowship period, she will be extending this work into a lyric […]
STEAM LAUNDRY chosen as 2017-2018 Statewide Alaska Reads Program featured selection
Date: March 16, 2020
STEAM LAUNDRY by Red Hen Poet Nicole Stellon O’Donnell was chosen as the 2017-2018 Statewide Alaska Reads program featured selection! Congratulations, Nicole!
John Domini’s Earthquake I.D. finalist for the Domenico Rea prize
Date: March 16, 2020
The Italian translation of John Domini’s EARTHQUAKE I.D. is a finalist for a major Italian award in the novel, the Domenico Rea prize. There are only five finalists, and TERREMOTO […]
Karen Gettert Shoemaker is big in Omaha!
Date: March 16, 2020
Recently, The Omaha Public Library chose Karen Gettert Shoemaker’s new novel, The Meaning of Names, as its 2014 Omaha Reads Selection. To complement this, the library interviewed Karen on everything from […]
In April 2009, John Domini’s novel Earthquake I.D. appeared in Italian translation
Date: March 16, 2020
The Italian title is Terremoto Napoletano, the translator Stefano Manferlotti, and the press Tullio Pironti Editore. Early reviews have been very strong. In Il Mattino, Fabrizio Coscia calls it: “a voyage […]
Ron Egatz featured on Verse Daily
Date: March 16, 2020
Ron Egatz’s poem “Valve Job,” from his collection Beneath Stars Long Extinct, has been featured on Verse Daily! Check it out here.
Reviews:
Review of Sixty Sonnet in BookSlut
Date: March 16, 2020
The sonnet is an enduring lyric monument, one of the few postclassical forms that refuses to die. Almost every major poet writing in a Western language has attempted to stand […]
Kim Dower’s poetry is one of Oprah’s favorite things!
Date: March 16, 2020
The December 2013 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine calls the poems in Slice of Moon, “unexpected and sublime.” Find a copy to see Kim’s new collection featured in the “Put It In […]
Jeannine M. Lesinski’s review on NewPages.com
Date: March 16, 2020
“The poem mingles aural and visual music: The caesurae [unable to be reproduced here] audibly create rhythm, while visually recalling the fragments of the fractal that are repeatedly broken down […]
Persephone by Lyn Lifshin on the Monsterrat Review
Date: March 16, 2020
To read Lyn Lifshin’s, Persephone, is to be energized by a flow of poems which catapult through the book’s 181 pages. Prophetically, none of her poems ends with a period […]
New Letters’ thoughts on William Trowbridge’s Put This On, Please
Date: March 16, 2020
Shanan Ballam, writing for New Letters Magazine, gives high praise to William Trowbridge’s Put This On Please. “Trowbridge’s technical and emotional gifts create a bond of trust with readers, making us want […]
Sixty Sonnets Reviewed in Rattle Magazine
Date: March 16, 2020
Sixty Sonnets, Reviewed by Maryann Corbett One look at the cover of Sixty Sonnets lets you know you’re dealing with a poet who’s got both slyness and chutzpah—at least if poet Ernest […]
Bad Stories: What the Hell Just Happened to Our Country
Date: March 16, 2020
Huge thanks to Publisher’s Weekly for the review on BAD STORIES, which they call “A worthwhile foray into understanding and responding to the Trump era.”
The Poet of Wall Street
Date: March 16, 2020
Westechester Magazine writes about Jim Tilley, dubbed “The Poet of Wall Street,” and his new book of poetry, In Confidence, published by Red Hen Press.
FOREWORD praises EAT LESS WATER
Date: March 16, 2020
Thanks to Anna Call from Foreword for the great review of Florencia Ramirez’s EAT LESS WATER, calling it “a charming work that gets its point across beautifully.”
Literary Mama reviews Mary Evelyn Greene’s memoir When Rain Hurts” and praises a mother’s challenging journey through adoption
Date: March 16, 2020
“Greene has come through an extraordinary trial both at home and abroad advocating for Peter. She is clear-eyed about the fact that both of her Russian-born children face unusual challenges, […]