Date: November 14, 2024
When Esinam Bediako submitted the manuscript for her debut novel, “Blood on the Brain,” for consideration for the Ann Petry Award, she didn’t think she’d be in the running for the […]
Date: November 14, 2024
Wa-zha’-zhe, name of the Osage tribe . . . who came from the stars.—“The Osage and the Invisible World: From the Works of Francis LaFlesche” […]
Date: November 5, 2024
In his third poetry collection from Red Hen Press, Kim Stafford gathers poems that sing with empathy, humor, witness, and story. Poems in this book have been set to music, […]
Date: October 31, 2024
In “Witness,” you allude to the martyr St. Priscilla. Other poems take up women mystics like Hilma af Klint and the other members of De Fem, who practiced mysticism. The […]
Date: October 31, 2024
I have a little something special to add to the newsletter today! A brief interview with Aliah Wright, author of the recently published Now You Owe Me from Red Hen Press. 1. What […]
Date: October 22, 2024
I’ve been reading from outside of Phoenix, where there have been over 120 days of 100 degree temperatures as summer comes to a close. With Hurricane Helene devastating the Southeast […]
Date: October 10, 2024
Today I talked to Esinam Bediako about here novel Blood on the Brain (Red Hen Press, 2024). When Akosua, a 24-year-old grad student in New York, falls and bangs her head, she has too […]
Date: October 10, 2024
Living Writers: Peggy Shumaker Expands Human Perception in ‘Cairn: New and Selected Poems’ Olivia Miller, Assistant Arts & Features Editor • October 4, 2024 Peggy Shumaker, the most recent author featured in Colgate […]
Date: October 10, 2024
My Q&A with the author: How much work does your title do to take readers into the story? The final title of my debut novel, Blindspot in America, was not the […]
Date: October 10, 2024
Akoto applied the Page 69 Test to his debut novel, Blindspot in America, and reported the following:
Date: August 12, 2024
Poetry is hard to define even for those devoted to reading, writing, and studying it. “It is difficult,” William Carlos Williams famously wrote, “to get the news from poems,” but […]
Date: August 7, 2024
Ultimately, this is what makes “Subduction” so effective and gut-wrenching: The characters are human, capable of great kindness and great corruption. The story feels lived in, like an old house […]
Date: July 29, 2024
What a great gift as Tilley proved to be a fine poet and a discerning observer of our world. Educated as a physicist with a PhD from Harvard and having […]
Date: July 15, 2024
Check out the review on July 19th!
Date: July 15, 2024
Stay tuned for its release!
Date: July 10, 2024
VERDICT Well-crafted characters will draw in readers, and an intricately woven plot will keep them in their seats. Recommended for fans of Tana French, Gillian Flynn, and Karin Slaughter.
Date: July 8, 2024
Danielle Vogel’s third book, the 2020 poetry collection The Way a Line Hallucinates Its Own Linearity, is much more than a group of poems elegantly arranged. It’s a conversation between the […]
Date: July 2, 2024
In this memoir, David Mas Masumoto tackles a difficult time in American history as well as his own family history. Intertwined in this history of family, the imprisonment camps where […]
Date: July 2, 2024
Ripples in the Fabric of the Universe by Jim Tilley published by Red Hen Press, Pasadena, California in June this year, is an interesting mix of relationship perceptions and how the universe […]
Date: July 2, 2024
The Good Deed reads like history that has been written over and over; perhaps it is just that the stories are as old as time, and displaced women and children—mute […]
