AGNI 82 Release Party, Boston Playwright’s Theatre, October 20th, 7:30
Tuesday, October 20, 2015, at 7:00 p.m. Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, 949 Commonwealth Ave, Boston (Green Line B, Pleasant St.) AGNI celebrates its EIGHTY-SECOND issue with readings by: Gjertrud Schnackenberg: Winner of the Rome Prize from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters; author of six poetry collections, including most recently Heavenly Questions. Sándor […]
Half the House is turning 20!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Classic memoir, Half the House, published in a 20th Anniversary Edition, with a new introduction by Louise DeSalvo. This October marks the 20th anniversary of the original publication of Richard Hoffman’s groundbreaking memoir, Half the House, the first literary memoir to explore the experience and consequences of boyhood sexual assault. Years before […]
South-South Institute 3
At the final plenary session of the Institute last Monday, I had planned to read three poems. I chose, at the last moment, to read only two. We were ready to project this Rembrandt painting behind me as I read, but I thought better of it. The conference was winding down, and the poem is […]
South-South Institute 2
When I arrived here in Cambodia, I thought to report on my comings and goings as if it were a vacation trip. The fact is that I have been entirely focused on the Institute’s sessions, including my own workshop and reading, and I’m just now able to even begin digesting the rich colloquy and moving […]
South-South Institute on Sexual Violence Against Men & Boys
Here in Phnom Penh, the weather is hot and humid. Everyone is waiting for the rainy season to begin. The Institute delegates have been arriving: from USA, UK, Australia, Uganda, New Zealand, Japan, Norway, Serbia, Albania, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Afghanistan, China, Philippines, Nepal. Here’s a photo of some of us at breakfast this morning: Phnom […]
two interviews & a poem
I’ve been fortunate recently to have been interviewed about my memoir Love & Fury by Lee Hope of Solstice Literary Magazine; and about my poetry by Charles Coe, for the Massachusetts Poetry Festival website. I will be opening the festival May 1st, reading with one of my heroes, Marge Piercy. A recent poem can be […]
Iota: Short Prose Conference
Originally posted on The Brevity Blog:
A note on the upcoming Iota Conference from Penny Guisinger and a reflection on the event from Sven Birkerts: Iota: Short Prose Conference is a place that celebrates the small in a world often ruled by heft. Participants gather at the Cobscook Community Learning Center, near Maine’s easternmost tip, for…
A GHAZAL FOR VALENTINE’S DAY
AGAINST COOL When you pretend you’re not but know you are, you suffer worse than if you just confess you are in love. The rain falls right through your umbrella and the sun and moon deny the whole cold day and night they are in love. All winter blinding white flakes rise […]
Winter Psalm
Boston snowbound, Logan closed, snowplows and salt-trucks flashing yellow, drifts tall as a man some places, visibility poor, I sit by the window and watch the snow blow sideways north-northeast, hot cup in hand, robe over pajamas. You have made me to seek refuge and charged me to care for my brothers. How cruel. That […]
A villanelle
THE WAVE Grant me an old man’s frenzy, Myself must I remake — Yeats How does a swell become a wave? What pushes up from under water? Tell me; this tired body is […]
RICHARD HOFFMAN 
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