KQED features Andrew Lam, author of STORIES FROM THE EDGE OF THE SEA
Date: April 29, 2025
KQED features Andrew Lam on its Perspectives series, where he reflects on the enduring memories of the Vietnam War.
News & Reviews
News:
Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast features VARIATIONS IN BLUE by Adela Najarro
Date: April 29, 2025
Adela Najarro is a poet with a social consciousness who is working on a novel. She serves on the board of directors for and works with the Latine/x community nationwide, promoting the […]
Interview with Elise Paschen, author of “Blood Wolf Moon” by Rey M. Rodríguez
Date: April 29, 2025
“Blood Wolf Moon” begins with a long poem called “Heritage,” which consists of a bracelet of poems modelled after a crown of sonnets. At one stage, the long poem was […]
The Orange County Register features Andrew Lam, author of STORIES FROM THE EDGE OF THE SEA
Date: April 29, 2025
The Orange County Register spotlights several Vietnamese American artists, including Andrew Lam, who shares his personal story of fleeing Vietnam for the United States as a child just before the […]
From stage to page: A Chicago poet honors her prima ballerina mother and Osage heritage
Date: April 24, 2025
CHICAGO (WGN) — Some believe destiny is whispered through the wind. Among the tall grass of Oklahoma’s Osage Tribal Reservation, many stories slip between its reeds. Some stories are about wealth, […]
Metro Silicon Valley features Andrew Lam, author of STORIES FROM THE EDGE OF THE SEA
Date: April 23, 2025
Andrew Lam is interviewed in Metro Silicon Valley’s article, “A Half-Century After Saigon’s Fall, the Diaspora Writes On.” In the conversation, Lam reflects on how writing has been a therapeutic […]
A Year on the Trauma Circuit: Taking Your Poetry to New Audiences
Date: April 22, 2025
by Lynnell Edwards, poetry faculty and associate programs director On the eve of the Kentucky Book Festival last November, a novelist friend came up to me at the writer’s reception […]
Percival Everett and TIMES, “The 100 Most Influential People of 2025”
Date: April 17, 2025
“There’s a moment that may surprise you reading Percival Everett’s novel James, a reimagining of Huck Finn’s Black sidekick and their treacherous journey to freedom. It’s the moment when you take a break […]
Dr. Andy’s Poetry and Technology Hour features FOUR DAYS IN ALGERIA’s author Clarence Major and WE’s author April Ossmann
Date: April 15, 2025
Red Hen Press authors Clarence Major and April Ossmann were featured on the April 2, 2025 edition of Dr. Andy’s Poetry and Technology Hour. Both authors discussed their latest Red […]
Poetry Foundation Poem of the Day (April 10th): After “Killers of the Flower Moon” by Elise Paschen, author of Blood Wolf Moon
Date: April 15, 2025
After “Killers of the Flower Moon” By Elise Paschen Lily Gladstone confides she wore my great grandmother Eliza’s blankets in three scenes. I don’t remember my great grandmother, though in a […]
Reviews:
Luke Goebel’s KILL DICK reviewed by Kirkus Reviews
Date: January 27, 2026
“…Shot through with the sort of pseudo-profundity endemic to youthful privilege, Susie’s rambling, terminally jaundiced narrative paints a darkly surreal Lynch- and Kubrick-inspired portrait of LA.”
Luke Goebel’s KILL DICK reviewed by Foreword Reviews
Date: January 21, 2026
Luke B. Goebel’s winking satirical novel Kill Dick parodies contemporary literary and cultural forms. Set against sun-bleached Los Angeles—a place marked by wealth, addiction, and apathy—the book accumulates exaggerations of […]
The Pickup from This Land Press reviews Elise Paschen’s BLOOD WOLF MOON
Date: January 20, 2026
How does one build an identity? It’s an ongoing venture of discerning and refining, discarding narratives as much as creating them. For a poet, especially one who writes autobiographically, that […]
Andrew Lam’s STORIES FROM THE EDGE OF THE SEA reviewed in The Common
Date: December 17, 2025
…In his latest collection Stories from the Edge of the Sea, Andrew Lam delivers work far beyond that narrow definition of the form. The settings are complex. Even a five-page […]
Adela Najarro’s VARIATIONS IN BLUE reviewed in Escape Into Life
Date: December 17, 2025
…Dr. Adela Najarro’s fifth book of poetry, Variations in Blue, is bright blue, black and blue, with dark reaching light. This bicultural-bilingual author “stands on the edge of volcanoes” to […]
Louise Wannier’s TREE SPIRITS AROUND THE WORLD reviewed in She Scribes
Date: November 4, 2025
This book encourages children to use their imagination. Throughout the book there are photos that encourage readers to really examine and appreciate. Just like cloud watching, you’ll eventually see something […]
TREE SPIRITS AROUND THE WORLD by Louise Wannier reviewed in Crafty Moms Share
Date: October 14, 2025
This book is so interesting. After meeting Tilly, Tilly travels around the world and shares trees from around the world. With each tree there is Tilly in a boat with […]
Booklist reviews TIMBER & LUA by Vi Khi Nào and Lily Hoàng
Date: October 8, 2025
Award-winning interdisciplinary writers Hoàng and Nào provocatively interrogate language,comprehension, and communication in a global world. Their collaborative result is a polyglotshowcase that combines English, Vietnamese, and a hybrid Vietlish to […]
BIND ME TIGHTER STILL by Lara Ehrlich reviewed in PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Date: October 7, 2025
With nods to “The Little Mermaid,” Ehrlich’s lovely sophomore outing (after Animal Wife) again probes themes of womanhood and monstrosity. Ceto, a siren and hunter of men, yearns to break the […]
Midwest Book Review places Jade Shyback’s AQUEOUS on their September 2025 Bookshelf
Date: September 30, 2025
This is the debut novel written by author Jade Shyback. I believe this is the first book in the new young adult series. While the focus may be young adult, […]