William Trowbridge's Ship of Fool was number 24 on the Poetry Foundation's best sellers list for the week of September 16th and Lynnell Edwards's Covet was number 22. This week both titles keep a spot on the list with Ship of Fool at 20 and Covet at 23!

David Maine’s An Age of Madness makes the Women’s National Book Association 2012 Great Group Reads list for the month of October which is National Reading Group Month. –

"A penetrating story about a psychiatrist coming to terms with her grief."

— Wilda Williams, Library Journal

To read the full article, click here.

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Kelly Barth just released the book trailer for her My Almost Certainly Real Imaginary Jesus –

Check it out here!

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Nin Andrews from The Best American Poetry blog chats with Kate Gale about the history and the future of Red Hen Press. –

"Our editorial direction has always been to embrace the work of outsiders, but now that has evolved to include publishing books by established authors whose new books are too risky for New York."

To read the full article, click here.

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In a recent article on LJWorld.com, Kelly Barth spoke with Gary Henry about religion, sexuality, and her memoir My Almost Certainly Real Imaginary Jesus. –

"Advance notices from other authors have called "My Almost Certainly Real Imaginary Jesus" funny, beautiful, poignant and heartbreaking. Barth says she faced many fears and demons in the effort to get it written. 'It’s told straight from my own perspective,' she says. 'Let the chips fall where they may.''

To read the full piece, click here.

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In a recent article on Bagoodjohn.blogspot.com, Ellen Meeropol spoke with Bunny about House Arrest and her works in progress. –

"Ideas for the next novel are always simmering in the back of my brain. By the time House Arrest was under contract with Red Hen Press, I had started writing the next novel. That manuscript is now finished and in the hands of my agent. I’m working now on a new project that features the children of House Arrest, beginning a decade after that book ends. Of course, I don’t know where this next one is going yet, but I love the opportunity to hang out with Zoe and the twins again."

To read the full piece, click here.

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Tess Taylor discusses poetry with NPR's Melissa Block for the station's NewsPoet project.-

“As a poet I get to break the frame of the day and make it something different. It's the work of poetry to kind of unsettle the present.”

To read the full piece, click here.

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Red Hen's Kate Gale speaks to Los Angeles Magazine about moving and LA literary culture. – "Pasadena is a city where arts and culture matter. I wanted Red Hen to be part of that. I felt our press would thrive in a place where ideas swarm and creative work is part of the landscape."

To read the full piece, click here.

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Our very own Dr. Kate Gale talks with 'Beyond the Books' about how Red Hen Press "has made a virtue of being a not-for-profit."

Hear the full conversation here.

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Fifth Wednesday Journal interviews Elise Paschen about poetry, revision, and her most recent project, Bestiary. Click here for the full interview.

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Red Hen would like to congratulate Veronica Golos, was chosen a winner the 2011 New Mexico Book Awards for her poetry collection Vocabulary of Silence (Red Hen Press, 2011). The NM Book Awards recognizes the best books in New Mexico and the Southwest. View the New Mexico Book Co-op's complete list of finalists here.

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The San Francisco Examiner's LJ Moore gives Suck on the Marrow a rave review, writing "Suck on the Marrow is ambitious, complex, unflinching, and ultimately welcoming, so that the ugliness, the pain and suffering that can't be avoided in this history can actually be experienced fully by a reader who is not being called to war, but as witness to human experience."

The rest of the article can be accessed online here.

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Anne Coray's newest title A Measure's Hush, published by Boreal an imprint of Red Hen, was given a shining review in the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner:

"But really great poets take ordinary things and make them poetic . . . with words that lift the mundane, the normal, the frightening and the ugly to those heights at which we can view them as imponderables. It's different, and very difficult. But not for Anne Coray."

If you don't have access to a Fairbanks newspaper, check out the article online through the link here.

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Congratulations to Camille Dungy, whose Suck on the Marrow has won the Northern California Book Award! Against some pretty tough competition, might we add. Full list of nominees here.

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William Trowbridge's Spring 2011 poetry collection Ship of Fool has a featured poem of the day on Verse Daily.

To check out the website and see the poem, "Foolproof", click on the link here.

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