Richard Hoffman is author of the poetry collections, Without Paradise, Gold Star Road, winner of the 2006 Barrow Street Press Poetry Prize and the New England Poetry Club’s Sheila Motton Book Award, and Emblem, as well as the short story collection Interference & Other Stories, and the celebrated memoir, Half the House. He teaches at Emerson College, and currently serves as Chair of PEN New England.
Richard can be reached at rchoffman [at] comcast.net

I went a-googling, to find someone who’d cited Woody Guthrie’s dictum about putting together two words that were okie dokie, and found you. Thanks so much for all you do and are. I’ll be reading more, both from you and from Woody. Plus singing and listening to his songs.