Local News Pasadena Profiles Red Hen Press!
Date: September 27, 2023
Many thanks to Victoria Thomas for the recent feature on Red Hen’s history, mission, and future!
News & Reviews
News:
Afaa M. Weaver, author of A FIRE IN THE HILLS, wins Academy of American Poets Wallace Stevens Award!
Date: September 19, 2023
Congratulations to Afaa M. Weaver on being the recipient of the 2023 Academy of American Poets Wallace Stevens Award, recognizing mastery in Poetry! We are honored to have published Afaa’s […]
The cover for Susan Rich’s latest collection BLUE ATLAS is revealed in an exclusive with Lit Hub!
Date: September 18, 2023
Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Susan Rich’s sixth poetry collection, Blue Atlas, which will be published by Red Hen Press in April. Click here to read the […]
Cheri Johnson’s ANNIKA ROSE and E.P. Tuazon’s PROFESSIONAL LOLA featured in Shelf Unbound’s Fall 2023 issue!
Date: September 6, 2023
As the world undergoes its annual transformation, shedding the vibrant hues of summer for the warm embrace of autumn, our passion for storytelling knows no borders. Fall has arrived, not […]
Chelsey Clammer’s HUMAN HEARTBEAT DETECTED selected as Finalist for Memoir Magazine’s 2023 Memoir Prize for Books!
Date: September 6, 2023
Memoir Magazine is delighted to share the winners of the 2023 Memoir Prize for Books! Congratulations to our Grand Prize winner, Finalists, and Category winners!
Francesca Bell’s WHAT SMALL SOUND featured in LitBowl’s Best Poetry Books 2023 List!
Date: September 6, 2023
Huge thanks to LitBowl on Instagram for the feature!
Author of DRUMMING WITH DEAD CAN DANCE AND PARALLEL ADVENTURES featured in Suffolk Norfolk Life magazine
Date: September 5, 2023
Adriana Páramo featured in Solstice Literary Magazine
Date: September 5, 2023
I’m lying on my back, scrawny feet up in the stirrups. In my head, I go like, don’t look, don’t look, don’t you look at her, but of course, I […]
KPBS Midday Show features poet and author Phuong T. Vuong as she discusses her latest book, A PLUCKED ZITHER
Date: September 5, 2023
[In this episode] we introduce you to a local poet whose work sheds light on war, migration and the experience of the Vietnamese diaspora. Click here to access the recording.
Juliana Lamy’s “You Were Watching from the Sand” featured as the new book of the day by NewPages.com
Date: August 29, 2023
Playful, kinetic, and devastating in turn, You Were Watching from the Sand is a collection in which Haitian men, women, and children who find their lives cleaved by the interminably strange bite […]
Reviews:
Chalmers Johnson reviews Common Sense for the Twenty-First Century
Date: April 13, 2009
Common Sense for the Twenty-First Century Blase Bonpane. Red Hen (CDC, dist.) $16.95 (272p) ISBN 1-888996-56-0Your new book is an absolute jewel. The commentaries on everything from Haiti to Falluja […]
Small Press Bookwatch reviews The Common Fire
Date: April 13, 2009
The Common Fire Shelley Savren. Red Hen (CDC, dist.) $12.95 (88p) ISBN 978-1-888996-96-8Winner of the 1994 John David Johnson Memorial Poetry Award, Shelley Savren is the recipient of nine California […]
Rachel Richmond reviews Cold Angel of Mercy
Date: April 13, 2009
Cold Angel of Mercy Amy Randolph. Red Hen (CDC, dist.) $11.95 (72p) ISBN 1-888996-55-2A nature-touched spirit penetrates Amy Randolph's book of thirty-eight poems. These poems are filled with dreams of […]
Phoebe Journal reviews Cartographies
Date: April 13, 2009
Cartographies Maurya Simon. Red Hen (CDC, dist.) $18.95 (104p) ISBN 978-1-59709-387-3 Maurya Simon's resume reads like that of a literary superstar. Nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 1990 and the […]
Steven Hansen reviews Burning Tulips
Date: April 13, 2009
Burning Tulips Diane Payne. Red Hen (CDC, dist.) $15.95 (156p) ISBN 978-1-888996-89-0The terms 'memoir' and 'novel' are not as easily blended as PB&J; nor do they make half as good […]
Anthony Julian Tamburri reviews Books and Rough Business
Date: April 13, 2009
Books and Rough Business Tullio Pironti. Red Hen (CDC, dist.), $20.95 (240p) ISBN 978-1-59709-129-9Tullio Pironti's Books and Rough Business is, on the one hand, a wonderful metaphor about the publishing […]
B.H. Fairchild reviews Body Painting
Date: April 13, 2009
Body Painting Jane Hilberry. Red Hen (CDC, dist.) $13.95 (72 p) ISBN 1-59709-013-1If this is the book of the body, its lineaments are those of not only erotic but spiritual […]
Publishers Weekly reviews Bestiary
Date: April 7, 2009
Bestiary Elise Paschen. Red Hen (CDC, dist.), $16.95 (80p) ISBN 978-1-56709-131-2The passionate, yet controlled, third volume from Paschen (Infidelities) pursues the likenesses between human beings and other sorts of beasts: […]