WATCH THE VIDEO: Fairly Unbalanced: Writing Political Satire in the 21st CenturyJune 14, 2009 Jimmy Tingle, comedianElizabeth Searle, co-vice chair, PEN New EnglandPercival Everett, writerBaron Wormser, former Maine Poet LaureateLise Haines, writerTeddy Sherrill, former director of advertising, Harvard LampoonRichard Hoffman, writer and chair of PEN New England PEN New England and Cambridge Forum present a […]
Below are my remarks at Don’t Close the Books! Rally at Massachusetts Statehouse, prior to Massachusetts Book Awards November 4, 2009. The rally was to protest and attempt to reverse the decision by Governor Patrick to severely cut funding for libraries across the state. Several people asked me for a copy so I thought it […]
My op-ed piece, written in my capacity as Chair of PEN New England, appeared in this Wednesday’s Boston Globe. I reprint it here, but I have also added a link at the bottom directing you to PEN American Center’s case file on this persecuted writer, with directions for expressing your outrage to the Chinese authorities. […]
It’s been a long time since I posted anything new here, but I have been recently showered with good fortune. Gold Star Road was selected this week for the Sheila Motton Award from the New England Poetry Club for best book of poetry published in the previous two years. Then, within hours, it was announced […]
This came to me from my friend Gene Bell-Villada. It was supposd to have been first published on the site Our Future Today, but I couldn’t find it there, so I’m simply sharing it here. Fascist America: Are We There Yet? By Sara Robinson All through the dark years of the Bush Administration, progressives watched […]
Two of my adaptations of Andrea Alciati’s EMBLEMS are up, at AGNI. I’m making a little book of these that I’m calling Unreasonable Facsimiles: based on the ‘Emblems’ of Andrea Alciati Alciati’s Emblematum Liber, first published in 1531, is an urbane collection of proverbs, riddles, and enigmatic emblems that is today most familiar to art […]
In Dublin in 2008 I had the opportunity to spend an entire day at The National Library where they had mounted the greatest exhibit about a writer I have ever seen, devoted to the life and work of William Butler Yeats. Usually, at least in my experience, exhibits about writers tend to be disappointing: “Look, […]
I share my birthday, May 6th, with one of my favorite poets, Randall Jarrell. Wood s Lot has a nice gathering of Jarrell material, from which this gem: WELL WATER Randall Jarrell What a girl called “the dailiness of life”(Adding an errand to your errand. Saying,“Since you’re up . . .” Making you a means […]
INERTIA 6 is up, containing new work by poets Jon Woodward, Pelle Lowe, Betsy Sholl, Cheryl Clark Vermeulen, Chad Arnold, Jon Woodward, Sue Nacey, Ken Buswell, and yours truly. Also, 19 great short video readings from the Stonecoast MFA program’s last residency, available on the program’s YouTube channel.
RICHARD HOFFMAN 
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