News:

Poets & Writers: Tea by the Sea

Date: June 30, 2020

“Eight years of active searching had come to this: an abandoned house, an outdoor stove, and a doll, signs of a former life but necessarily his and hers.” In this […]

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, […]

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Reviews:

Cult. Bomb raves about Brendan Constantine’s Calamity Joe!

Date: March 16, 2012

Cult. Bomb author Danielle Mitchell recently blogged this about Calamity Joe, Brendan Constantine's newest collection of poems from Red Hen Press: "Here there is wonder, earth, humor, rancid, lameness, shimmer, […]

Room Service gets a great review on Shelf Awareness

Date: March 14, 2012

Shelf Awareness' Tom Lavoie has this to say about Ron Carlson's Room Service: "The poems and prose pieces in Room Service are thoughtful, witty, sad and hopeful–rarely angry or mad. […]

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