Red Hen Press imprint: 90 books

This is the personal story of the life of Blase Bonpane, a vanguard practitioner of liberation theology and a former Maryknoll priest. In the wake of the Second Vatican Council 1962-1965 many religious people, especially those serving in Latin America, began to understand a spirituality that transcended...

In Elise Paschen’s prize-winning poetry collection, Infidelities, Richard Wilbur wrote that the poems “. . . draw upon a dream life which can deeply tincture the waking world.” In her third poetry book, The Nightlife, Paschen once again taps into dream states, creating a narrative which balances...

Genevieve Kaplan’s In the ice house offers an innovative meditation on domestic life and the physical world that surrounds it, chronicling “at least the beginnings of some disaster” taking place in a landscape that “had no symmetry.” Deftly channeling poets like Wallace Stevens and John...

Avocations collects the best of Sam Hamill's prose on poetry over the  last 18 years, presenting insightful readings of Kenneth Rexroth, Denise  Levertov, Odysseas Elytis, Matsuo Basho, Kobayashi Issa, John Logan and  many others together with critical commentary on poetry in translation  and the practice of poetry in general.

In his twenties, an American manual laborer and poet found himself living with his beautiful wife in a village in southern Greece.  Their first encounter with that country would prove an unrecoverable dream of intimate magic, but through decades of steadfast affection, poet David Mason grew to a deeper...

• National publicity efforts targeting: +Industry journals such as Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Library Journal, Kirkus, Bookforum, and ShelfAwareness +Major newspapers and journals such as The New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Time, Entertainment Weekly, and The New...

• National publicity efforts targeting: +Industry journals such as Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Library Journal, Bookforum, and ShelfAwareness +Local newspapers and journals to the author +National blogs and podcasts such as Salon, Slate, The Rumpus, Buzzfeed Books, Huffington...

Ben Shippers doesn’t have much use for school, friends, or pretty much anyone except his smartass sister, but he does harbor a secret passion: Trash Mountain, the central feature of the noxious landfill next to his house, the fumes from which have made his sister ill. After a botched attempt to...

• National publicity efforts targeting: +Industry journals such as Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Library Journal, Bookforum, and ShelfAwareness +Local newspapers and journals to the author +National blogs and podcasts such as Salon, Slate, The Rumpus, Buzzfeed Books, Huffington...

Percival Everett’s The Book of Training by Colonel Hap Thompson of Roanoke, VA, 1843, Annotated From the Library of John C. Calhoun, is poetry within the harsh confines of a mock historical document—a guidebook for the American slave owner. The collection features lists of instructions for buying,...

• Audience: literary community; environmentalists, eco-justice supporters, and political activists; Meeropol's previous readers and fan base. • Content themes and subjects include environmental issues and eco-justice (tying into the ongoing discussion on human-induced climate change); social...

Two, Two, Lily-White Boys follows the fortunes of two 14-year-old Scouts from Ermine Falls—Larry Carstairs, the narrator, and Andy Dellums, Larry’s schoolmate and friend—over the course of six days at Camp Greavy, a Boy Scout camp not far from Traverse City, Michigan. The story’s catalyst...

In Peter Gordon’s debut collection Man Receives Letter and Other Stories, the fragility and mystery of human relationships are explored between husbands and wives, fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, and colleagues at work. Originally published in Ploughshares, The New Yorker, The Yale Review,...

Lena Khalaf Tuffaha's debut, Water & Salt, sings in the voices of people ravaged by cycles of war and news coverage. These poems alternately rage, laugh, celebrate and grieve, singing in the voices of people ravaged by cycles of war and news coverage and inviting the reader to see the human lives lived beyond the headlines.