Date: June 30, 2025
In an exclusive extract from his book, Drumming with Dead Can Dance: and Parallel Adventures, former Dead Can Dance drummer Peter Ulrich looks back at an almost fateful mishap in […]
Date: June 18, 2025
In a recent interview with Bookish Brews, Angel Eye author Madeleine Nakamura talks about the concept and her experience of defensive writing—the anxiety over imagined criticism that can cause writers […]
Date: June 17, 2025
Date: June 4, 2025
Elise Paschen’s sixth poetry collection, “Blood Wolf Moon” explores the storylines of her Osage heritage. The core of the book takes on “The Reign of Terror,” when white outsiders murdered […]
Date: May 29, 2025
When Red Hen Press began 30 years ago, cofounder Kate Gale recounted that Los Angeles’ literary scene was crumbling. “There were no [Master of Fine Arts] programs, bookstores were closing, […]
Date: May 20, 2025
Thank you to the New York Times for a beautiful obituary for our dear Nahid Rachlin, who passed away on April 30, 2025. We’re honored to have been a part […]
Date: May 20, 2025
On May 8, Nancy Kricorian discussed and read from her latest book, “The Burning Heart of the World” at Roeliff Jansen Community Library in Hillsdale, New York. Kricorian was interviewed […]
Date: May 20, 2025
In this episode of Words on a Wire, host Daniel Chacón welcomes back poet Adela Najarro to discuss her powerful new collection, Variations in Blue, published by Red Hen Press. With warmth, candor, and insight, Najarro […]
Date: May 14, 2025
Mekong Review has published a powerful profile of Andrew Lam in its latest issue. Written by Connla Stokes, this feature highlights Lam’s journey from fleeing Vietnam in 1975 to becoming […]
Date: May 13, 2025
LibraryThing is pleased to sit down this month with novelist Nancy Kricorian, whose work explores the experiences of the post-genocide Armenian diaspora. Her debut novel, Zabelle, published in 1998, has been translated […]
Date: May 7, 2009
Review by John Domini in GENTLY READ LITERATURE, December 2008It's called creative non-fiction, and these days there's just no stopping it. More and more commercial publishing depends on the memoir, […]
Date: May 7, 2009
Safe Suicide reviewed by Rand Richards Cooper in AMHERST MAGAZINE, fall 2008In Safe Suicide, the Boston-based novelist, professor and editor DeWitt Henry has collected his autobiographical essays first published in […]
Date: May 7, 2009
Date: May 6, 2009
"Green is an intensely formal poet–not in tone, but in construction. Look at that table of contents again: five groups of ten. A desire for symmetry, some revelatory order. He […]
Date: May 6, 2009
Dan Wickett, on the widely-read blog for his Emerging Writers Network, lists Earthquake I.D. as one of the best books of 2007, and awards it 4 stars. "A great, jam-packed […]
Date: May 6, 2009
Praise for Earthquake I.D. from Thomas Burke, in THE LITERARY REVIEW (50/3, Spring 2007): "an exploration of contrasts: opulence and destitution; the loved, the loving, and the dissatisfied; intractable guilt, […]
Date: May 2, 2009
"Everything I write requires this: Alphabet." A child sees letters first, "shape distinguishing itself from its background," but soon we lose the innocence of that first encounter to ideas of […]
Date: April 24, 2009
Dungy's first poetry collection offers a number of ways to look at what is considered to be a part of nature, whether it is a part of the plants or […]
Date: April 22, 2009
Sholeh Wolpe's Rooftops of Tehran is that truly rare event: an important book of poetry. Brushing against the grain of Persian-Islamic culture, she sings a deep affection for what she […]
Date: April 19, 2009
Perhaps there is no present, and existence is built of the alterable past moving into the alterable future, and then through the opaque door of death. Or perhaps there is […]
