News:

TBLR: Importing Color

Date: July 1, 2020

During the ongoing shelter-in-place regime, I should be reading fiction and transporting myself to other worlds that might afford me a semblance of normality or familiarity. But I don’t seem […]

Repeating Islands: Donna Hemans

Date: July 1, 2020

Donna Heman’s forthcoming novel Tea by the Sea is now available for pre-ordering. It will be released on June 9, 2020 (Red Hen Press). Marlon James (author of Black Leopard, Red Wolf) writes: […]

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 […]

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Reviews:

PUBLISHER’S WEEKLY Reviews Susan Rich’s BLUE ATLAS!

Date: December 12, 2023

The resilient and confessional eighth book from Rich (Gallery of Postcards and Maps) centers on a pressured midterm abortion undergone when a relationship fails.  … these poems offer a surreal […]

River Teeth reviews Alyssa Graybeal’s FLOPPY!

Date: November 28, 2023

Alyssa Graybeal begins her memoir with a list of acronyms for a host of medical conditions, the central one of which is Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. This inherited disorder affects the ability […]

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