Publication Day! EMBLEM
My new collection of poems, EMBLEM, is now available from Barrow Street Press. Poems from this collection appear online at Janus Head, here, and here, at Agni, here, and here, and at Solstice Literary Magazine, here, and here. It will also be available from Small Press Distribution and Amazon any day now. Here’s what others have […]
New poems up at Agni
Two new poems of mine, “Inventory” and “Good Boy” are up at Agni.Hope you enjoy.
prompted by Penn State’s Criminal Conspiracy
The following essay, Pictures of Boyhood, may be of use to those who are asking the hard questions about the relationship of American sports culture — some would say the American cult of sports — to the sexual abuse of boys. It first appeared in The Literary Review Vol. 45 #4, in 2002, where it […]
Penn State Criminal Conspiracy
I have been getting a lot of email from people who want me to, expect me to, write about the recent revelations at Penn State. I cannot. That whole world, that whole milieu, is still very real to me. I have tried to parse it out over and over again: the linkages between hypermasculinity, locker rooms, […]
Another poem from Without Paradise: THE BACKYARD STUFF’S ESSENTIAL after A. R. Ammons There’s a small hill in the tall grass in the backyard that’s a perfect pillow. Summer’s my lazy time if lazy’s understood the way I mean it: wagging fingers, dirty looks be damned. Implied utility’s a constant in a view, even […]
Tipping Point
In every struggle there is a moment that is afterward recognized as the point when the tide began to turn, when success became sure. Those who have struggled, over the past two decades especially, to bring the reality of children’s widespread sexual exploitation to light, can only hope that the present attention to the assault […]
Midnight Oil Magazine Interview
Instructive Delight: an interview with Richard Hoffman – Midnight Oil magazine Midnight Oil: You write in three genres; how do you know which genre is best suited to an idea? Richard Hoffman: Poems seem to come to me as phrases and rhythms to be developed, essays as ideas, and fiction as characters. For me, writing […]
Lifeboat Magazine Interview
Lifeboat magazine’s interview with Richard Hoffman by Amy Biancolli AB: Let’s start with the big, loaded question. Please define memoir. Is it synonymous with autobiography — and while we’re at it, what’s autobiography, anyway? RH: Well, it’s funny, memoir is one of those forms that I think that everytime you try to define it, it […]
Keynote on Child Abuse
Keynote: Current THinking / New Directions Conference, Friday 18 June 2004, Sheraton Hyannis Resort, sponsored by Children’s Cove: Cape Cod Child Advocacy Center and Michael O’Keefe, Barnstable County District Attorney. It is a great honor to address you this morning, to be included in this program with Lucy Berliner, with Dr. Goldberg, with Jim McLaughlin […]
Sugar
We’re in the check-out line and I’m putting the groceries on the counter. This is the hardest part of shopping with a two-year-old. Jeffrey’s apple, healthful consolation for all the things I have refused him, is down to the core, and he’s working himself up to a crescendo of desire. “Daddy, I want a… a… […]
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