Red Hen 20th Anniversary Readings!
Date: March 16, 2020
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News & Reviews
News:
The Los Angeles Daily News Shows You Who’s Who in LA’s Publishing Scene
Date: March 16, 2020
Allison Hill likens the Los Angeles publishing scene to a "scintillating, intimate dinner party," with ten of her favorite publishers as the dinner guests in the
Francisco Aragon featured on Poetry Foundation
Date: March 16, 2020
Upcoming author Francisco Aragon, whose book After Rubén is forthcoming from Red Hen Press in 2020, was recently highlighted by the Poetry Foundation in
Kate Gale interviewed on the Los Angeles Times
Date: March 16, 2020
Carolyn Kellogg at the Los Angeles Times just posted an interview with Kate, on running an indie press and her festival favorites. To read the interview,
AWP Spotlights Red Hen Press
Date: March 16, 2020
Video of Red Hen at Boston Court
Date: March 16, 2020
Eloise Klein Healy, Poet Laureate of Los Angeles!
Date: March 16, 2020
This very morning, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced the appointment of Red Hen author Eloise Klein Healy as the first official Poet Laureate of the City of Los Angeles! Eloise will […]
Elise Paschen writes blog entry for The Center of Humans and Nature
Date: March 16, 2020
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Red Hen Celebrates 15 years with Rattle
Date: March 16, 2020
Red Hen Press Turns 16!
Date: March 16, 2020
Reviews:
Sholeh Wolpe’s Rooftops of Tehran
Date: April 22, 2009
Sholeh Wolpe's Rooftops of Tehran is that truly rare event: an important book of poetry. Brushing against the grain of Persian-Islamic culture, she sings a deep affection for what she […]
The Critic’s Pen review of Future Ship
Date: April 19, 2009
Perhaps there is no present, and existence is built of the alterable past moving into the alterable future, and then through the opaque door of death. Or perhaps there is […]
One Poet’s Notes, Valparaiso Poetry Review
Date: April 18, 2009
http://edwardbyrne.blogspot.com/2007/04/leslie-heywood-proving-grounds.htmlMONDAY, APRIL 2, 2007Leslie Heywood: THE PROVING GROUNDSLeafing through the work in Leslie Heywood's premiere book of poetry, The Proving Grounds, one quickly becomes accustomed to uncovering sometimes uncomfortable and […]
Beth Ann Fennelly, The Southern Register
Date: April 16, 2009
"In the debut collection from Kentucky poet Nickole Brown, readers experience the pleasures of poetry "the illuminated moment reverberating" as well as the pleasures of the novel–the narrative unfurling, driven […]
Cynthia Arrieu-King, Diagram
Date: April 16, 2009
"If you feel that high emotion and unalienated confession is not art, as Slavoj Zizek might assert that it cops to the System where the individual is valued for trying […]
Ely Shipley, Quarterly West
Date: April 16, 2009
"Brown's awareness of the book's form, its how in addition to its what, allows for these poems' rich complexities. The order not only forms a linear narrative, but layers experience. […]
Julie Enszer, Lambda Book Report
Date: April 16, 2009
"The strength of Sister is in the details, some of which are constructed through Brown's diction, which is gently infused with a southern dialect but resists caricature. She writes of […]
Melanie Jordan, Southern Indiana Review
Date: April 16, 2009
"To write of one's own conception, gestation, birth"to write convincingly of unknowable-yet-familiar moments: that is the power of poetry and the power of Nickole Brown's debut, Sister, a self-styled "novel-in-poems.' […]
American Poet: The Journal of The Academy of American Poets
Date: April 16, 2009
"Nickole Brown's poems marry an enthralling and tormented narrative with woven, specific lyricism to create a layered progression through a difficult past. Brown has immediate access to how the situations […]
Cate Marvin, Ploughshares
Date: April 16, 2009
"Using umbilicus as guide rail, the speaker of Nickole Brown's Sister–an unflinching and deeply intelligent first book–undertakes a hair-lifting expedition back to her childhood so as to return herself to […]