HOCKSHOP It’s a window next to impossibleto miss unlessyou’re hurrying to a particular placeor obsessed with a recent song, or carryinga face, not just anyone’s,with you at the time. I confess I’ve stood thereunder the sign lettered GUNS – JEWELRY – LOANSmany times, the window full ofrisked, lost, or stolen things,grieving people’s or dead people’s […]
NUDE DESCENDING A PRAYER Father Art, on earth, above those pastthe hours of their deaths, thou Motherunder us for who knows how long now,thy names be with me. Fruit of willsrepeatedly and variously done on earth,who will pray for us? Sinners? I believein clay and constellations and what accidentsallow us to forgive ourselves again for […]
Another from Without Paradise: THE SLOTH I live entirely for my own sake.I once had friends, some money, plans, a love,but what the hell, what difference does it make? These days it doesn’t pay to stay awake.I’ve got what I need. I’ve got nothing to prove.I live entirely for my own sake. I was the […]
It’s been a long time since I posted anything here. I only occasionally repost from another blog or website because I had wanted this to be a place where I would make my own contributions to the “genre” of the weblog. This isn’t the site of my work, either; that’s still my notebook. Having grown […]
I’m very proud to be a small part of Thoughtcast, which Jenny Attiyeh describes as “a watering hole for ideas.” She recorded my reading at The New England Poetry Club on the occasion of my receiving their Sheila Motton Award for best book published in the previous two years. I read with Wendy Mnookin, whose […]
I am incensed by a news article in the Boston Globe today, “Pope to deliver apology to Ireland.” I have seldom seen such a cynical acceptance of the public relations dictum “perception is all.” The article seems to agree that the problem is the Catholic Church’s “image,” and not the worldwide criminal conspiracy recently brought […]
This fine essay is reposted from wood s lot. I believe it gets to the root of our condition, i.e. it’s a truly radical analysis of not only our economic, but also our social and spiritual devastation. HOW WALL STREET TRANSFORMED WORK IN AMERICA by Etay Zwick …Pick up the New York Times today, and […]
RICHARD HOFFMAN 
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