RICHARD HOFFMAN

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Posted by rhoff1949 on June 4, 2014 in Featured

Here is a short video excerpt from Love & Fury, on the Beacon Press blog: http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2014/06/love-and-fury.html

ESSAY DAILY

Posted by rhoff1949 on May 5, 2014 in Featured

If you are an essayist, a student of the essay, a reader who loves the form, Ander Monson’s ESSAY DAILY is for you!

Posted by rhoff1949 on May 4, 2014 in Events, Featured

Readings from Love & Fury: 6/3/2014: HARVARD BOOK STORE, 1256 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA, 7pm 6/4/2014: THE ODYSSEY BOOK SHOP, 9 College St., South Hadley Falls, MA, 7pm 6/10/2014: PORTER SQUARE BOOKS, 25 White St., Cambridge, MA, 7pm 6/12/2014: BARNES & NOBLE #1979, 2289 Broadway, NYC, 7pm (“in conversation” w/ Philip Lopate) 6/16/2014: THE HALF KING, 505 West 23rd Street, NYC, 7pm […]

Posted by rhoff1949 on March 4, 2014 in Featured

Very pleased to be the most recent in a long line of distinguished guest bloggers on Michael Steinberg’s Blog: The Art and Craft of Creative Nonfiction.Mike’s blog is a polyvocal treasury of good advice on craft and strategy for essayists and memoirists. As the editor of the literary journal Fourth Genre, and co-editor, with Robert […]

Posted by rhoff1949 on February 21, 2014 in Featured

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, […]

Posted by rhoff1949 on February 18, 2014 in Featured

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 […]

Posted by rhoff1949 on February 15, 2014 in Featured

I have taken a good, long while off from this blog while I poured my time and energy into the new memoir, Love & Fury. Yesterday, Valentine’s Day, I found myself tinkering with this poem: AGAINST COOL When you pretend you’re not but know you are, you suffer worse than if you just confess you […]

Love & Fury, A Memoir, coming June 3rd

Posted by rhoff1949 on February 7, 2014 in Books

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 […]

Posted by rhoff1949 on December 30, 2012 in Featured

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 […]

Posted by rhoff1949 on October 8, 2012 in Featured

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 […]