Red Hen Press

11/14/2025

The Holiday Countdown kicks off with 7 Days of Poetry straight to your feed 📩

Day 5 of poetry is THE WORLD BEGAN WITH YES by Erica Jong✨

Life challenges us to celebrate even when our very existence is threatened. Never have we needed poetry more. The poet sees the world in a grain of sand and eternity in a wild flower. This poet’s work has always stressed the importance of the lives of women, women’s creativity, and self-confidence.

“The World Began With Yes is the real deal. Get it and read it. You need it. We all need it. In this time of agitation and fear, you will fly with Erica Jong—she brings us back to what matters—the heart, the mind, the head, the imagination—the “Yes” of life.”
—Judy Collins

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11/13/2025

Thank you to Poets.org for featuring Elise Paschen’s new poem APERTURE in Poem-A-Day📝🖋️🗒️!!!

Read the new poem here 📃✨:

https://poets.org/poem/aperture

Looking through the lens for a close-up, / he frames me, pond in the background.

11/13/2025

Thank you Times Argus for featuring April Ossmann, author of WE following the discussion of how she, authors and many other individuals will find themselves with “daily opportunities to build bridges”. 🌁✨🌉

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Read the full article here 📝:

https://www.timesargus.com/opinion/perspective/ossmann-on-being-a-bridge/article_a8c3f359-d348-5386-b619-d53020c8d1f5.html

I believe the solution to ending our painful political division is a spiritual/emotional one, resolved not by reason, argument or verbal bullying, but by willingness to engage civilly. We can,

11/13/2025

The Holiday Countdown kicks off with 7 Days of Poetry straight to your feed 📩

Day 4 of poetry is I WORE THIS DRESS TODAY FOR YOU, MOM by Kim Dower✨

A rich, complex, heartbreaking, and funny anthology of poems on motherhood—being one and having one. From being a mother—childbirth to empty nest—as well as being a daughter with all the teenaged messiness, drama and conflict, to finally caring for one’s mother suffering from dementia. Explore the deep crevices and emotions of these impenetrable relationships that are filled with love, despair, joy, humor and gratitude that fills our lives 🩷

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11/12/2025

It’s the ULTIMATE gift guide for readers - Day 4 📚

Today we are sharing books for the reader who loves to travel ✈️ 🌎

THE DISCARDED LIFE by Adam Kirsch (Los Angeles)
THE PLAYWRIGHTS HOUSE by Dariel Suarez (Havana, Cuba)
CANICULA/DOG DAYS by William Archila (El Salvador)
ISLAND MAN by Joanne Skerrett (Dominica, a Caribbean island country)

Save this post and send it to your loved ones to loudly share that this is what you are asking for this season 🎁

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Happy holidays!

11/12/2025

We’re in the final stretch! 📚✨ Help us continue bringing the joy of creative writing to students across Los Angeles. Your support gives young writers the tools to dream, imagine, and tell their own stories.
💫 The WITS fundraiser ends this Saturday, so let’s finish strong!
Donate today!

11/12/2025

The Holiday Countdown kicks off with 7 Days of Poetry straight to your feed 📩

Day 2 & 3 of poetry is NIGHT MYTHS • • BEFORE THE BODY by Abi Pollokoff & APOCRIFA by Amber Flame ✨

🌙 NIGHT MYTHS • • BEFORE THE BODY illuminates the dichotomies contemporary women grapple with every day: identity and expectation, self-preservation and doubt, freedom and entrapment, wildness and cultivation. By dissolving the boundaries between the body and the natural world, Abi Pollokoff’s evocative debut deconstructs the essence of womanhood, carrying the reader into a communing at once vulnerable and insistent.

💙 APOCRIFA imagines a love that sits comfortably at the crossroads of commitment and freedom. The developing intimacy between a lover and their beloved is propelled by a compendium of words for love, romance, s*x, relationships, and affection.

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11/11/2025

It’s the ULTIMATE gift guide for readers - Day 3 📚

Today we are sharing books for the friend who believes in magic ✨🔮

BOOK OF SPELLS by Gary Lemons
CURSEBREAKERS (book 1) & ANGEL EYE (book 2) by Madeline Nakamura
CITY OF SMOKE AND SEA by Malia Marquez
THE SEA GIVES UP THE DEAD by Molly Olguin

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11/10/2025

The Holiday Countdown kicks off with 7 Days of Poetry straight to your feed 📩

Day 1 of poetry is PANDORA’S KITCHEN by Ron Koertge ✨
Follow along as readers interact with Hades’ unhappy wife Persephone, Nancy Drew, and Dracula’s Wives. Find Jane Austen at the mall, feel comforted by the sun itself, and enjoy a celebrated winning day at the races. It’s no wonder his poems are called masterful, quirky, deliciously sly, inventive and surprisingly sweet.

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11/10/2025

Every child deserves the chance to see themselves as an author 🖋️✨
The WITS program empowers young writers to find their voices—and their words say it all.
Support our fundraiser today and help us nurture the next generation of storytellers! ❤️

11/10/2025

It’s the ULTIMATE gift guide for readers - Day 2 📚

Today we are sharing books for the friend who reads for the thrill 🔪😈

NOW YOU OWE ME by Aliah Wright
THE LAST WOMEN OF AZALEA COURT by Ellen Meeropol
URSULA LAKE by Charles Harper Webb
THE SEA GIVES UP THE DEAD by Molly Olguin

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Happy holidays!

11/06/2025

The eleventh episode is OUT!

Stop and smell the roses on this newest episode with Red Hen Press poets M. Soledad Caballero, Jose Hernandez Diaz, and Jason Schneiderman.

Follow along as the discussion shifts from books shaping these writers’ current reading lives and how early influences evolve as artists, to the role of phones, screens, and social media in shifting our attention and how it reshapes the way students encounter art.

Listeners also get to hear these poets' poetry in this exclusive episode of Red Hen Radio 🎙️

Listen today on your favorite podcast platform 🎧

https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/red-hen-press/episodes/Walking-Through-Fire-Poets-on-Teaching--Writing--and-Staying-Creative-During-These-Chaotic-Times-e3ajo0q