Check out this review of If You Wave a Chicken Over Your Head featured in the Winter 2017 issue of The Potomac: A Journal of Poetry and Politics.

She bites off an arm’s length
of black thread.
Putting spool back into workbox
she licks the tip—
straw.
Elbows braced on cold windowsill
she holds needle to grey light  ...

Donna Isaac is pleased to announce that her work will be published in the upcoming edition of Saint Paul Almanac: On A Collected Path, "To Grandma Delores Suffering from Lewy Body Dementia," a tribute poem in apostrophe to her maternal grandmother. 

Ron Arias is working with LA director A.P. Gonzalez on a short film project for the title story from his collection The Wetback and Other Stories.  Click here for more information on the project.  

Name:  Brad Braund

Role at Red Bird:  Designer, Harp Player (occasionally at local Red Bird events)

Name: Helen Wick

Role at Red Bird: Designer, Production Assistant

Red Bird will be one of the featured publishers at the Minnesota Book Publishers' Roundtable 2017 Internship Fair

Tuesday March 28, 2017
5:30 pm to 7:30 pm
Open Book
1011 S Washington Avenue
Minneapolis MN 55415

More information is available here.

Simple Book Structures
Saturday April 29, 2017
11:00 am to 2:00 pm
$35 (All supplies included)

Proceeds from this workshop will be donated to Red Bird Chapbooks to support their work as an independent non-profit literary press serving aspiring and inspiring authors.  

Join Red Bird as we host an evening of music, poetry and prose on Friday, April 21, 2017 at Artista Bottega. The reading will begin at 7:00 pm, with live music before and after.  Arrive a bit early or plan to stay after the reading to peruse all the wonderous things in the gallery and shop.

Friday, April 21, 2017
7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Artista Bottega
937 7th Street West
Saint Paul MN 55102

We've have some recent updates that we're excited to share with you:  

Our team continues to grow... Check out the Meet the Flock blog to learn more about our newest members.

We've added a new Event Calendar to the website (featured at the right) which will make it easier for us to communicate upcoming events while allowing us to use the home page to focus on new releases and author news.  You can click on an underlined date to view details of any events scheduled for that date.  

We started an email newsletter this year.  If you haven't already signed up, you can click this link and add your contact information.  We're hoping to send out updates a couple times a month.  

If you have news or events you'd like for us to share with the community, please email announcements@redbirdchapbooks.com.