This past Wednesday night, over one hundred L.A. artists gathered together in North Hollywood to celebrate great literature in the L.A. Lit Crawl. Some of our authors were there, and ShelfAwareness grabbed a picture of Ron Koertge and Kim Dower right in the middle of all the fun. We had a blast at the Lit Crawl
News & Review Type: News
Red Hen Represents at L.A Lit Crawl!
William Trowbridge is featured in KC Studios!
KC Studio interviews William Trowbridge and calls his work "highly relatable
Chris Abani Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship
In its eighty-fifth annual competition for the United States and Canada the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation awarded 180 Fellowships to artists
Douglas Kearney Spends Fathers’ Day with NPR
Over the weekend, Douglas Kearney sat down with Rachel Martin of NPR's Weekend Edition to discuss his new collection
Shelf Awareness on Kim Dower
Shelf Awareness had a great story on Tuesday about Kim Dower and her debut collection
Lift receives starred review in Publisher’s Weekly
Publisher's Weekly Web Exclusive Book Reviews: Week of 11/2/2009
Lift: A Memoir
Rebecca K. O’Connor. Red Hen
Camille Dungy at the NAACP Image Awards
Her book
Red Hen Award Winners, 2010
At long last
Kelly Davio talks ink with KUOW and TNBBC
In a recent blog post on The Next Best Book Blog
The Writer’s Chronicle Explores the Mind of Katharine Coles
Katharine Coles was interviewed by Martin Naparsteck in the October/November 2011 issue of The Writer's Chronicle. Naparsteck explores how the author's experiences and surroundings influence her language and work; he also questions her view of the relationship "between the way a poet seeks the truth and the way a scientist seeks it."
The full text of the interview is reproduced below.
Katharine Coles was appointed in 2006 to serve a five-year term as the Poet Laureate of Utah. She has published four books of poetry (Fault
Percival Everett recieves Corrington Award for Literary Excellence
We'd like to congratulate Percival Everett, the 28th recipient of Centenarys John William Corrington Award for Literary Excellence!
The John William Corrington Award for Literary Excellence is presented annually by the Department of English at Centenary College of Louisiana on behalf of the Centenary student body and faculty to an established
Elise Paschen on NPR
NPR spotlights Poetry Speaks Who I Am: Poems of Discovery
Allow Us to Introduce You to Louise Wareham Leonard’s 52 MEN!”
Louise Wareham Leonard’s, 52 Men, is an intense “micro-novel” that captures the emotional and physical possibilities of encounters between 52 men and one woman in the Manhattan of the late twentieth century.
To celebrate the upcoming August 15 release, excerpts and snippets of the men have been shared online with The Rumpus and Fiction Advocate.
“Five Easy Pieces” can be found here on The Rumpus.
“Joel, Paul, Bob, Lou, and Timothy” can be found here on Fiction Advocate.
Amy Uyematsu Writes for Huffington Post
Author Amy Uyematsu wrote a post for Huffington Post about growing up in a time where there weren't many other Asian-American poets, and how that has had a large impact on her life:
"I grew up at a time when the internment of my Japanese American parents and grandparents was not given a single line in my history textbooks. Or the term 'Asian American,' must less 'Asian American poetry,' didn't even exist. We were called 'Orientals' back then…At UCLA, the best class I took was 'Orientals in America,' in my senior year 1969…How liberating it was to release our pent-up anger for decades of racial discrimination and injustices. On a big white-majority (at that time) campus like UCLA, we finally had a home."
To read the full article, go here.
Amy Uyematsu's debut poetry collection comes out April 2015. To preorder
Red Hen author Verónica Reyes featured in The Advocate
Red Hen author, Verónica Reyes, is featured in The Advocate for her recent Lambda Award nomination.
The Lambda Award is sponsored by The Lambda Literary Foundation that "nurtures, celebrates, and preserves LGBT literature through programs that honor excellence, promote visibility, and encourage development of emerging writers." Reyes was nominated for the award for her collection of poems titled Chopper! Chopper! Poetry from Bordered Lives.
The Advocate article features Reyes' poem, "The Queer Retablo Series: Butch-Femme Dialogue," as well as other poems by authors who were also nominated for the Lambda Award.