Molly Fisk, author of WALKING WHEEL, interviewed on Rattle Magazine’s Rattlecast!
Date: October 1, 2026
News & Reviews
News:
Kristen Millares Young, author of DESIRE LINES, interviewed by The Seattle Times!
Date: October 1, 2026
“If you find yourself reliving unpleasant moments with the clarity you wish you could reserve for joy, that’s trauma,” writes Kristen Millares Young in “Desire Lines” (out Oct. 6 from […]
MY BODY IS A BOOK OF RULES by Elissa Washuta Featured in Electric Literature’s “7 Experimental Books That Reimagine How Trauma Is Told”
Date: October 1, 2026
Trauma does not recollect to us whole. Memory is already a ghost of our experience, haunting us from inside our minds and bodies. Put 10 people in a room with […]
Adela Najarro, Author of VARIATIONS IN BLUE, Profiled by Good Times!
Date: October 1, 2026
On Sept. 26, local poet Adela Najarro will be honored with an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation for her volcanic book of poetry, Variations in Blue. The American […]
DESIRE LINES, by Kristen Millares Young, featured on Alta Journal’s October 2026 new-book roundup!
Date: October 1, 2026
15 New Books for October Here are the works by authors on and of the West—including The Occidental Book of the Dead, Off the Reservation, and Passengers—that we’re most excited to see published […]
San Diego Public Library sits down with TAXI DANCER author Marivi Soliven!
Date: September 28, 2026
Tune in to hear Marivi share her story and experiences as a naturalized American citizen, and learn more about the writer behind TAXI DANCER.
Abrea Armstrong’s FERRY TALES Featured in WS Chronicle
Date: September 28, 2026
Abrea Armstrong has helped Winston-Salem preserve and tell its Black history. Now, the hometown writer is introducing a novel about a Black woman searching across the Atlantic for a fuller […]
Amy Speace, author of THE CARDINALS, interviewed by Jedd Beaudoin for an Into Music podcast episode!
Date: September 17, 2026
Amy Speace is a singer-songwriter based in Nashville, who recently released her first collection of poems, The Cardinals, via Red Hen Press. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she found herself at a number […]
Amy Speace, author of THE CARDINALS, featured on Cincy Groove
Date: September 17, 2026
Award-winning singer/songwriter + poet Amy Speace will release her debut collection of poetry titled The Cardinals available Tuesday, September 1 published by Red Hen Press, with the accompanying single “Days […]
Amy Speace, author of THE CARDINALS, interviewed by Matt Conner for Analogue
Date: September 17, 2026
Little made sense, on paper, about a folk singer in her 50s with a young child and a touring lifestyle pivoting to chase an MFA—and specifically to study a form […]
Reviews:
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 […]
Erica Wright, ForeWord Magazine
Date: April 16, 2009
"It would be easy to say that this collection is an indictment, but there is nothing easy about these poems. They are each skillfully wrought pieces about impossible subjects. . […]
Publishers Weekly, August 2007
Date: April 16, 2009
"Brown's forthright debut opens with an intimate address to a sister: "I tell you this story because it is / the story we need / to believe our offal is […]