An Op-Ed piece on Curley Family/NAMBLA lawsuit
It’s violence, not sex Suit should expose indefensible criminality A jury’s award of 328 million dollars to the Curley family in their wrongful death suit against their son Jeffrey’s killers is a step, a large step, in the right direction. The most significant part of their search for justice, however, has yet to come. It […]
A poem from my first collection, Without Paradise: STEVENS ASTRIDE THE HEMISPHERES — for Thom Salmon Mnemosyne upreared amid atrocity concurs: this looking backward is a not so accidental death and dismemberment policy after all, appended to one’s life and health; however, squat caryatids, resentful though proud, agree that, whether a bequest or metaphor (those […]
YAWP Walt, under my bootsoles you smell like napthalene and paintwhenever the water table rises, and no one is held accountable.Generalists with cell phones selling wellness products on thebeltways of America at eighty miles per hour believethey are the first to ever want a life that’s more than labor andhave made that aspiration a creed. […]
Below is an essay by Erica Schweitzer on the historical and cultural roots of “The Tea Party.” Erica is a graduate student at Emerson College. I am posting this because I believe it should have wide circulation: she has cut through the smoke and mirrors and offers us a context for understanding this recent phenomena, […]
Some notes on poetry and dissent — remarks I made on a PEN New England panel with Greg Delanty and Linda McCarriston at The Massachusetts Poetry Festival: A poet always works with and strains against language. That may seem like a truism, and you may ask “What’s political about that?” Well, for starters, the question […]
The 2011 Spring Issue of Solstice is “live.” In fiction, read David Huddle’s story of erotic attraction, then Jeffrey Ihlenfeldt’s piece about erotic love. Read Marko Fong’s ironic tale of a little Chinese/American boy. Read Chris Helvey’s haunting story of a middle-aged man’s search for himself. This is a big poetry issue, featuring Leslie Ullman’s […]
Richard Hoffman’s site
In the coming days and weeks, I hope to be able to move my website from its current location (www.abbington.com/hoffman) here
Our PEN New England panel with music critic and novelist Bill Flanagan, poet and lyricist Paul Muldoon, and singer, songwriter and musician Paul Simon is available for viewing here. Great talk about writing and music, with a couple of poems from Muldoon and two Paul Simon performances, including a song from his new album not […]
Chris Hedges, telling the truth about our current political, economic, and moral predicament. The picture when he connects the dots is devastating, but essential to understand if we are to begin to think clearly and outside of the conceptual boundaries set by the corporate state. Watch this! It’s about 45 minutes long. Less than an […]
SORRY BOUT THAT Adrian Mitchell Truth is a diamondA diamond is hardYou don’t existWithout a Barclaycard Sorry bout thatSorry bout thatEven South African copsDo the sorry bout that They showed me the world and said:What do you think?I said: Half about womenAnd half about drink And I’m sorry bout thatSorry bout thatMother I need that […]
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