Poet to Poet/Writer to Writer with Doug Holder

Poet to Poet/Writer to Writer with Doug Holder

Doug Holder is a man dedicated to interviewing, archiving, and recording the many writers and artists who make Somerville the “Paris of New England”. His TV show “Poet to Poet/Writer To Writer” can be seen on Somerville Community Access TV Show  (Tuesdays Channel 3 @ 5 PM ) Many of these shows are archived at the […]

Write Angles Conference Interview: What motivated you? Did you worry about others’ feelings?

Write Angles Conference Interview: What motivated you? Did you worry about others’ feelings?

“Interview” with Richard Hoffman from the Write Angles Conference November 6, 2017 by writeanglesblog Richard will be a panelist on the memoir panel. He has provided the following text of this exchange with a long-ago student of his; the questions and responses pertain to his first memoir, HALF THE HOUSE. Additionally, Richard was interviewed by Amy Grier about both HALF […]

Interview with the Woven Tale Press: “I see my younger self in many of today’s young poets.”

Interview with the Woven Tale Press: “I see my younger self in many of today’s young poets.”

WTP Writer: Richard Hoffman Interview by August Smith, WTP Feature Writer Richard Hoffman has published four volumes of poetry: Without Paradise; Gold Star Road, winner of the Barrow Street Press Poetry Prize and the Sheila Motton Award from The New England Poetry Club; Emblem; and his new collection Noon until Night. His other books include the celebrated Half the House: a Memoir, published […]

Selected Poems from Noon Until Night

Selected Poems from Noon Until Night

The Road Mothers with newborns in knotted slings, on their heads impossible towers of things,              the old in carts, the children by the hand, these people crossing a cratered land                          are more than metaphor; but they are […]

Somerville Times: When I read the poetry collection Noon until Night by Richard Hoffman, I said to myself, “Damn, this is one wise dude.”

Somerville Times: When I read the poetry collection Noon until Night by Richard Hoffman, I said to myself, “Damn, this is one wise dude.”

‘Noon until Night’ by Richard Hoffman On October 18, 2017, in Latest News, by The Somerville Times When I read the poetry collection Noon until Night by Richard Hoffman, I said to myself, “Damn, this is one wise dude.” I think Hoffman has a way of reporting back to us through his own scars, displaying the bullshit we […]