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 […]
A poem from my first collection, Without Paradise: STEVENS ASTRIDE THE HEMISPHERES — for Thom Salmon Mnemosyne upreared amid atrocity concurs: this looking backward is a not so accidental death and dismemberment policy after all, appended to one’s life and health; however, squat caryatids, resentful though proud, agree that, whether a bequest or metaphor (those […]
YAWP Walt, under my bootsoles you smell like napthalene and paintwhenever the water table rises, and no one is held accountable.Generalists with cell phones selling wellness products on thebeltways of America at eighty miles per hour believethey are the first to ever want a life that’s more than labor andhave made that aspiration a creed. […]
Below is an essay by Erica Schweitzer on the historical and cultural roots of “The Tea Party.” Erica is a graduate student at Emerson College. I am posting this because I believe it should have wide circulation: she has cut through the smoke and mirrors and offers us a context for understanding this recent phenomena, […]
Some notes on poetry and dissent — remarks I made on a PEN New England panel with Greg Delanty and Linda McCarriston at The Massachusetts Poetry Festival: A poet always works with and strains against language. That may seem like a truism, and you may ask “What’s political about that?” Well, for starters, the question […]
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 […]
Richard Hoffman’s site
In the coming days and weeks, I hope to be able to move my website from its current location (www.abbington.com/hoffman) here
RICHARD HOFFMAN 
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