David Mason poem shared by former U.S. Poet Laureate
Date: October 3, 2017
Former U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser
News & Reviews
News:
Vivian Faith Prescott Featured on Literary Hub
Date: September 29, 2017
Vivian Faith Prescott was featured on Literary Hub's website with an excerpt, "Girls with the Sun in Their Eyes," from her new book The Dead Go to Seattle, which was […]
Remembering Red Hen Poet Austin Straus
Date: July 20, 2017
Today Red Hen remembers one if its beloved poets, Austin Straus. Austin published three collections of poetry with Red Hen Press, including Drunk With Light, Intensifications, and The Love Project: […]
Ruth Irupé Sanabria Featured on Poetry Foundation
Date: July 12, 2017
Ruth Irupé Sanabria was recently featured on Poetry Foundation's website with her poem Ars Poetica, which is found in her book Beasts Behave in Foreign Land, which was published by […]
Lisa C. Krueger Featured on Poetry Foundation
Date: July 11, 2017
Poet Lisa C. Krueger was featured on Poetry Foundation's website with a poem from her book Run Away to the Yard, which was published with Red Hen Press earlier this […]
Lisa C. Krueger Featured on Poetry Foundation
Date: July 11, 2017
Poet Lisa C. Krueger was featured on Poetry Foundation's website with a poem from her book Run Away to the Yard, which was published with Red Hen Press earlier this […]
Lena Khalaf Tuffaha featured on Poetry Foundation
Date: July 11, 2017
Red Hen poet Lena Khalaf Tuffaha was recently featured on Poetry Foundation's website with a poem titled National Security Advisor from her book Water & Salt, published by Red Hen […]
Gary Lemons Poem Featured on Poetry Foundation
Date: July 11, 2017
Red Hen poet Gary Lemons was recently featured on Poetry Foundation's website with a poem from his book The Weight of Light. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/143498/nowhere-to-hide
Louise Wareham Leonard Featured Essay in Tin House’s LOST AND FOUND
Date: July 6, 2017
Lost and Found features short essays (3000 words or fewer) examining under-read, overlooked, or otherwise "lost" books which—for reasons personal, political, artistic, or otherwise—deserve to be found again. In her […]
See t’ai freedom ford and Brendan Constantine This Weekend in Santa Monica
Date: July 6, 2017
See Red Hen authors t'ai freedom ford and Brendan Constantine in Santa Monica this weekend (07/09/2017) at The Broad Stage – The Edye as a part of An Evening of […]
Reviews:
Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network Reviews STORIES FROM THE EDGE OF THE SEA by Andrew Lam
Date: June 18, 2025
In Stories from the Edges of the Sea, Andrew Lam writes not from the center of trauma but from its quieter afterlives. These are not conventional Vietnamese refugee stories. They emerge […]
Necessary Fiction Remarks on the Interplay Between “the Weird and the Mundane” in Their Glowing Review of Molly Olguín’s Debut Collection THE SEA GIVES UP THE DEAD
Date: June 17, 2025
The stories in The Sea Gives Up the Dead, Molly Olguín’s debut collection, are remarkable for the ways in which they skate between the weird and the mundane, the ordinary and […]
Didi Jackson’s MY INFINITY Featured in Seven Days’ Writeup On Vermont Books
Date: June 12, 2025
In her second poetry collection, Didi Jackson shifts among lyrical strategies, sometimes earthy and elsewhere mystical. An assistant professor at Tennessee’s Vanderbilt University, she spends part of the year in […]
Kirkus Reviews and Lara Ehrlich’s BIND ME TIGHTER STILL
Date: May 27, 2025
The relationship between Ceto—a siren who left her sisters and the ocean behind—and her 15-year-old daughter, Naia, is tested when Sirenland, their seaside burlesque attraction, is threatened by the untimely […]
Chapter House Journal Reviews Blood Wolf Moon by Elise Paschen
Date: May 22, 2025
In James, Percival Everett’s National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, the character James writes, “With my pencil, I wrote myself into being. I wrote myself to here.” By doing […]
Midwest Book Review highlights WHAT SHE WANTS by Kim Dower
Date: April 23, 2025
MBR Bookwatch features a review of Kim Dower’s latest poetry collection, What She Wants, written by Mary Cowper. “Her word smithing, poetry based storytelling skills are truly impressive.”
NPR Host Scott Simon talks about THE BURNING HEART OF THE WORLD with its author Nancy Kricorian
Date: April 22, 2025
Scott Simon joins Nancy Kricorian for a conversation about her novel The Burning Heart of the World. Simon praised the book as “a wonderful novel … tough and moving”.
The Burning Heart of the World Follows an Armenian Family in Exile
Date: April 22, 2025
Nancy Kricorian’s latest novel, The Burning Heart of the World, is a powerfully spare, poetic evocation of the 15-year Lebanese Civil War (1975−1990) and its long-term impact on one Armenian family living in Beirut. It’s the […]
Booklist features a starred review of Elisa Paschen’s BLOOD WOLF MOON
Date: April 22, 2025
“In this graceful, assured, and incandescent collection, Paschen explores her relationship with her mother, the trailblazing Osage prima ballerina Maria Tallchief, and her mother’s life and family, while also delving into Osage […]
Nancy Kricorian’s novels tell the stories of the Armenian diaspora, exiled but always seeking community
Date: April 17, 2025
“Nancy Kricorian grew up in Watertown in a two-family house where her grandmother, a survivor of the Armenian genocide, lived in the apartment upstairs. The community was rich in Armenian […]