Here are three poems of mine from the most recent Manhattan Review:COROLLARY The body, six feet underground, requires six days to break down. Bulbs must wait in warming loam six months or more. And so the earth is vast, love urgent. PATRIMONY 1. He is out of work. We are out of money. My mother’s […]
This from Chris Lydon today. Reposting it here. These are conversations that shed light, serious inquiries into what has befallen us and speculations about how we might survive with our humanity intact. Dearest Ones: The ghost of Tony Judt, historian and prophet, hovers over the best conversations we’ve recorded this spring — for all the […]
Just a little taste… the first poem in EMBLEM, published in December. adapted from Alciati’s Book of Emblems[1] Emblem 89 AGAINST THOSE WEALTHY VIA PUBLIC MISCHIEF Avarice in check, the country at peace, does not please everyone. Those who fish for eels, for example, who know how to slice one into segments thin as paper […]
ARBOR VITAE “Trees are Earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.” — Rabindranath Tagore My neighbor across the street wants to cut down the tree in the front of her house; she says its roots are compromising her foundation, and besides, she wants more sun so she can grow flowers in her […]
The year winds down…. This poem is from the new collection, 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 […]
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 […]
RICHARD HOFFMAN 
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