Date: November 19, 2024
For our fifth episode of S3 of There She Goes, we’re proud to partner with VONA Traveling While BIPOC, the nation’s first writing workshop for travelers of color. Adriana is […]
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: April 16, 2009
"Brown's forthright debut opens with an intimate address to a sister: "I tell you this story because it is / the story we need / to believe our offal is […]
Date: April 14, 2009
Time Out LondonMotel Girl (Red Hen Press) is the debut collection of New York writer Greg Sanders. Like many debut collections it draws material from a decade of writing, going […]
Date: April 13, 2009
John Domini Earthquake I.D. Red Hen (CDC, dist.) $20.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-59709-076-6Des Moines author John Domini has won awards from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Meridian Editors […]
Date: April 13, 2009
Margo Klass and Frank Soos Double Moon. Red Hen (CDC, dist.) $19.95 (80p) ISBN 978-1-59709-141-1This is a stunning book and I want to live in it. Double Moon — one […]
Date: April 13, 2009
Deena Metzger Doors: A Fiction for Jazz Horn. Red Hen (CDC, dist.) $18.95 (296p) ISBN 1-888996-99-4In this heartbreaking, heart-making novel, Deena Metzger dares to ask, to truly ask, the question […]
Date: April 13, 2009
Chris Abani Dog Woman. Red Hen (CDC, dist.) $14.95 (112p) ISBN 1-888996-82-XThese poems reveal a prodigious imagination, which is enlivened by sardonic wit and an inexhaustible capacity for irony and […]
Date: April 13, 2009
Gaylord Brewer Devilfish. Red Hen (CDC, dist.) $12.95 (104p) ISBN 1-888996-15-3A devilfish is one of the large rays, cousin to the manta ray and the sting ray. It is an […]
Date: April 13, 2009
Richard Silberg Deconstruction of the Blues. Red Hen (CDC, dist.) $15.95 (104p) ISBN 1-59709-051-4Brilliant. "Writing About Writing." And death. And existence. The mystery of self and others, the connections between […]
Date: April 13, 2009
Chandra Prasad Death of a Circus. Red Hen (CDC, dist.) $18.95 (272p) ISBN 978-1-59709-024-7What city-weary soul hasn’t thought of running away to join the circus? That’s the dream of Lor […]
Date: April 13, 2009
Chris Abani Daphne’s Lot. Red Hen (CDC, dist.) $18.95 (112p) ISBN 1-888996-62-5Chris Abani’s DAPHNE’S LOT is an absolute tour de force! The title poem is an exceptionally poignant novella in […]
