Date: October 26, 2026
Four Alaskan poets who’ve released new books in the last two years gather to share poetry and be interviewed about the writing and publication process. Join Susan Campbell, Jonas Lamb, […]
Date: October 26, 2026
Amiee Suzara’s book Birth Language has been featured in an episode of KPFA as their Resistance in Residence Artist of the week. The book fuses English, Spanish, and Tagalog. It […]
Date: October 26, 2026
Date: October 21, 2026
Welcome to Robinson Jeffers Now, a series of conversations with contemporary poets occasioned by the California poet, Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962), a major figure in American poetry of the first half […]
Date: October 21, 2026
Welcome to Robinson Jeffers Now, a series of conversations with contemporary poets occasioned by the California poet, Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962), a major figure in American poetry of the first half […]
Date: October 19, 2026
Helen Benedict’s mission in both her fiction and her journalism is to examine the personal consequences of social injustice, whether in the context of colonialism, violence against women, or modern […]
Date: October 19, 2026
Here are the 13 titles I’ve chosen for the month. Read, reflect, learn, enjoy, resist and repeat.
Date: October 19, 2026
n her new essay collection, “Desire Lines,” author and journalist Kristen Millares Young, ’12, takes on the challenge of writing a memoir to uncover her matrilineal history while searching to […]
Date: October 13, 2026
To camp with kids makes me question my sanity. I crush tasks. Setting up the tent, laying out the bedding, stacking coolers on a bench. The picnic tables are skeined […]
Date: October 12, 2026
A prize-winning novelist, journalist and essayist, Kristen Millares Young is the author of the memoir Desire Lines, forthcoming from Red Hen Press and Brilliance Audio on October 6, 2026, and […]
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. […]
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 […]
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.' […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. . […]
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 […]
Date: April 14, 2009
Time Out LondonMotel Girl (Red Hen Press) is the debut collection of New York writer Greg Sanders. Like many debut collections it draws material from a decade of writing, going […]
Date: April 13, 2009
John Domini Earthquake I.D. Red Hen (CDC, dist.) $20.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-59709-076-6Des Moines author John Domini has won awards from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Meridian Editors […]
Date: April 13, 2009
Margo Klass and Frank Soos Double Moon. Red Hen (CDC, dist.) $19.95 (80p) ISBN 978-1-59709-141-1This is a stunning book and I want to live in it. Double Moon — one […]
