From the Black Earth Institute, this remarkable treasury of writings and art assessing Civil Rights in America, edited by writer, activist, and independent scholar Richard Cambridge. From the assassination of Medgar Evers and the Birmingham Church bombing that killed four children in 1963 to the re-election of the first Black president, this issue contains challenging, […]
I am posting a link here to the book trailer for Kathleen Aguero’s latest, After ThatHere is the title poem from that fine collection, her fifth:AFTER THAT she wouldn’t leave the house, or she’d be gone for weeks and return smelling of cigarettes and bleach.She’d say what anyone would, but, like thunder in winter, it […]
Love & Fury, A Memoir, coming June 3rd
An acclaimed author reflects on his upbringing in a post–World War II blue-collar family and comes to terms with the racism, sexism, and other toxic values he inherited. Love & Fury tells a story that comprises five generations of an American family, examining the continuing impact of history as it shapes the lives of […]
The year winds down…. This poem is from EMBLEM: DECEMBER 31st All my undone actions wander naked across the calendar, a band of skinny hunter-gatherers, blown snow scattered here and there, stumbling toward a future folded in the New Year I secure with a pushpin: January’s picture a painting from the 17th century, a still-life: skull […]
A poem from EMBLEM for Columbus Day: EVERYONE Columbus thought he had discovered the Indies so he called the people he encountered Indians, but he was wrong; he had discovered the working class. He took their sage, not their advice; it smoldered like rage but smelled nice. One of the Santa Maria’s crew, avaricious and […]
Here are three poems of mine from the most recent Manhattan Review:COROLLARY The body, six feet underground, requires six days to break down. Bulbs must wait in warming loam six months or more. And so the earth is vast, love urgent. PATRIMONY 1. He is out of work. We are out of money. My mother’s […]
RICHARD HOFFMAN 
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