Red Hen Press

Eloise Klein Healy's A Brilliant Loss is a poetic journey into the loss of language and the reclaiming of it. Healy had Wernicke's aphasia in 2013 when she was the first poet laureate of the City of...

A Framing JobAuthor: Ricardo Means YbarraPublisher: Red Hen PressPublication Date: Aug 16, 2017Number of Pages: 80 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: Paperback/PoetryISBN-10: 1597090344ISBN-13:...

A HalfMan Dreaming conjures into existence an apocalyptic storyline that takes its narrator, Lupe, from a childhood encounter with the Enola Gay on the edge of the Californian desert, to the war in...

A Life Above Water is a cycle of poems that examines both the natural and human worlds and explores the boundaries between the two. The manuscript is concerned with personal ecologies and mythologies...

Something is rotten in the state of American poetry. With respect to audience and artistry, poetry has shot itself in many portions of its anatomy, and keeps blasting. The fact that vast numbers of...

"Flannery O'Connor has written that 'Fiction operates through the senses. . . The first and most obvious characteristic of fiction is that it deals with reality through what can be seen, heard,...

a slice from the cake made of air processes the physical and mental trauma of abortion coupled with the desires for sexual and emotional love against a backdrop of contemporary culture--with all the...

A Wild Surmise: New & Selected Poems & Recordings is Eloise Klein Healy's seventh book of poetry and the first that includes an audio component. Included are poems from all her previous collections,...

After Rubén is both trajectory and mosaic--a conversation around poetry in the Americas.Author: Francisco AragonPublisher: Red Hen PressPublication Date: May 05, 2020Number of Pages: 160...

Against the Wind is a story of six characters' second chances to make things right.Author: Jim TilleyPublisher: Red Hen PressPublication Date: Sep 24, 2019Number of Pages: 296 pagesBinding: Paperback...

A Kim Dower poem is a portal to a haunting universe of everyday life wrapped into poetic reverie. Lost languages, locomotives pummeling through dreams, taxi drivers thrown by the earth's rotation,...

American Quasar, a visual-textual collaboration, addresses personal and political trauma, the emotional craters left by family, and the ways in which one learns to love not only as son, brother,...

In two intertwined songs, a feminist epic poem and a dreamlike opera libretto, Among the Goddesses traces one woman's harrowing mythological journey of discovery. Tutored by encounters with seven...

Charles Harper Webb's eccentric and distinct writing style makes this collection of poetry a funny and charmingly memorable read. A melting pot of pop culture, historical references, and everyday...

A short story collection about women's transformations from girls into wives, mothers, and monsters.Author: Lara EhrlichPublisher: Red Hen PressPublication Date: September 08, 2020Number of Pages:...

As a psychologist, Lisa C. Krueger is familiar with digging into what makes us human. The joys and celebrations or the pain of what cuts the skin--and what cuts deeper. In animals the size of dreams,...

We've gotten into another fine mess, destroying the planet and all. So where will we go next? Is it time to colonize outer space? Acclaimed essayist Pope Brock takes us on a vivid satirical journal...

These five-line poems written about Eloise Klein Healy's experience with aphasia awaken the senses with a mind fully engaged with the creative. If we divorce ourselves from the cognitive intellectual...

apocrifa is a nongendered love story told in verse, the journey of a lover and their beloved finding each other, falling apart, and then creating their own way to love together.Author: Amber...

"Sagan's richly sensual writing blends elements of mature insight with deeply felt experience. These are poems of an examined life with moments of Zen clarity throughout. It is, in fact, the clarity...

There is an inexplicable gravity in a small town. It can be read and enjoyed like a favorite book for most of its inhabitants. Comforting are its streets and institutions, its wedding and obituary...

Beasts and Violins is a collection of American narrative poetry addressing themes of life and work in the western United States. The poems read like broken country songs sung from a paved farm: dead...

In this memoir-in-poems, Sebastian Matthews offers a glimpse into his painful yet transcendental journey of healing a broken body, mending a shattered soul, and the utter zeal of making a layup when...

"The poems in Elise Paschen's Bestiary explore domestic preoccupations set against the backdrop of the wild-heartedness, real and imagined, of the animal world," praises the poet Jason Shinder. In...

After recovering from a head-on collision and its attendant trauma, the author struggles to reconnect to a world in the throes of a form of cultural PTSD.Author: Sebastian MatthewsPublisher: Red Hen...

Beauty and terror collide in Doug Lawson's Bigfoots in Paradise, a wild new collection of stories set largely in and around Santa Cruz, California, and the surrounding mountains. It's a land tucked...

Welcome to the peculiar and headlong world of Brian Doyle s fiction, where the odd is happening all the time, reported upon by characters of every sort and stripe. Swirling voices and skeins of...