The Sea Gives Up the Dead by Molly Olguín has been selected as one of Ms. Magazine’s Most Anticipated Feminist Books of 2025!
Author Karla J. Strand shared her excitement for the work, “which has been described as witchy, witty, imaginative, fantastical, queer, mouthwatering, wild, lithe, and lush.”
Poet Elise Paschen was recently featured in WBEZ Chicago, where she discussed Kitihawa, who, alongside her husband Jean Baptiste Point Du Sable, founded the city of Chicago.
During the interview on WBEZ, Paschen read her poem “Kitihawa Speaks”, which is included in her latest poetry collection, Blood Wolf Moon. The book was highlighted multiple times throughout the conversation, emphasizing its powerful engagement with history, identity, and voice.
In 1994, Kate Gale and Mark E. Cull co-founded Red Hen Press from their Los Angeles home, selling nearly all they owned to begin publishing poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction from talented writers. Today, Red Hen Press publishes approximately 25 books each year, with over 550 books released to date and distributed internationally. In their 30 years, the press has transformed into an organization that leads their local community and beyond with literary programs that include author awards, the Los Angeles Review magazine, and the Writing in Schools workshops in low-income schools. We met with co-founder Kate Gale to learn more about their journey.
Poet Kim Dower, author of “What She Wants: Poems on Obsession, Desire, Despair, Euphoria,” joined us to share her latest poetry collection.
We are pleased to announce that Library Journal’s Prepub Preview has featured four Red Hen Press titles: What She Wants by Kim Dower, We by April Ossmann, The Burning Heart of the World by Nancy Kricorian, and Four Days in Algeria by Clarence Major. Congratulations to the authors!
“A Promise of Peaches” Many Japanese Americans advocate for human rights. There’s a reason.
This original and unique pandemic film created by local Vermont artists and performers, marks the Centennial of Women’s Suffrage in dance and poetry, and is dedicated to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Every April in Montpelier, visitors can be found staring intently at store windows, to which are affixed hundreds of poems by local authors. This is how we gratefully stumbled on David Stauffer’s and April Ossmann’s beautiful poems. The march, Tunnel Brook, is a highly variable stream that courses out of the mountains through Hancock, VT.
The Australian showcases David Mason’s poem EENSY.
Berkeley, California based author Yang Huang shares tales of growing up in China, post cultural revolution. And how, on the heels of the Tiananmen Square protests, she was empowered to write in hopes of propelling a more tolerant and hopeful world through her stories.
Come along and join author, Yang Huang at the KCBX studios in San Luis Obispo, California for a conversation with correspondent Tom Wilmer about her life journey and captivating stories about her books.
The Burning Heart of the World by Nancy Kricorian is part of this year’s Literary Lights series by the International Armenian Literary Alliance.
The New York Times honors Native American ballet dancer Maria Tallchief and features lines from her daughter, poet Elise Paschen.
Ghanaian American writer Esinam Bediako discusses her new novel, Blood on the Brain, a tale that follows Akosua, a young woman recovering from a concussion.
The Georgia Review features the essay “Mobius: A Meditation on Art and Science” by Alison Hawthorne Deming in its Winter 2024 issue.
Prairie Schooner features Alison Hawthorne Deming’s essay “The Eye of Water” in its recent issue.
