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 […]
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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 […]
A POET’S PROGRESS: READING ROBERT GIBBONS Who among us has not dreamt of a particular prose, a poetic prose which could translate the lyrical movements of the mind, the undulations of reverie, the leaps of conscience? — Baudelaire In his essay “Training For Poets”, H. L. Hix writes, “Poetic inspiration occurs not upon the occasion […]
Listen to PEN New England’s Tribute to Howard Zinn on WGBH Forum Network. At this event, PEN New England presented our 2010 Vasyl Stus Freedom-to-Write Award to Zargana, poet and comedian imprisoned by the regime in Burma/Myanmar. Here is an op-ed I co-wrote with Joshua Rubenstein, Northeast Regional Director of Amnesty International. TEARS OF A […]
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