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Poet of the Week

Richie Hofmann

June 28, 2026

Richie Hofmann is the author of three books of poems—The Bronze Arms (2026), A Hundred Lovers (2022), and Second Empire (2015). He is the recipient of a 2025 Guggenheim Fellowship and a 2025 Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.

I kneel in pagan light
Pleasure briefly disfigures you

I think poetry’s political value is its indeterminacy, its aversion to simplicity, to easy consolations, to orthodoxy, to the abuse of language at the heart of politics.
Conversations

In Conversation with Poet Michael Hettich

by 

Brit Washburn

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Michael Hettich

July 4, 2026
Book Reviews

A Little Feral by Maria Giesbrecht

by 

Alina Kalontarov

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June 27, 2026
Essays

Whatever You Want

by 

Philip Metres

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June 27, 2026
Essays

On Recklessness and Patience

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Kimiko Hahn

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June 27, 2026
Essays

The Present Tense

by 

Linda Gregerson

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June 27, 2026
Essays

Poetry and Patience

by 

David Baker

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June 27, 2026
Book Reviews

A Body in Spice by Roseline Mgbodichima

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Ancci

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June 17, 2026

John's Table by Lesle Lewis

by 

Yetta Rose Stein

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June 15, 2026
Book Reviews

bright sorrow by Jonathan Chan

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Ancci

 &  

June 15, 2026
Book Reviews

Bantustan Blues by Tjizembua Tjizuku

by 

Ancci

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June 13, 2026
Book Reviews

Ginsberg, sing me a jiwang song! by nor

by 

Jonathan Chan

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June 10, 2026
Book Reviews

Dear Dear by Reuben Gelley Newman

by 

Ancci

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June 6, 2026
Conversations

A Language of Imagination

by 

Davin Faris

 &  

Bob Hicok

June 4, 2026
Bob Hicok

An alternative education

by 

Bob Hicok

 &  

April 28, 2026
Bob Hicok

Reach vs. grasp

by 

Bob Hicok

 &  

April 25, 2026
Bob Hicok

My attempt to join the ranks of famous psychologists has once again fallen a wee bit short

by 

Bob Hicok

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April 21, 2026
Bob Hicok

The biography of a spirit

by 

Bob Hicok

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April 18, 2026
Bob Hicok

The unnatural order of things

by 

Bob Hicok

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April 14, 2026
Essays

Scars

by 

Maria Giesbrecht

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April 12, 2026
Bob Hicok

History, as I understand it, is not the subject of this poem

by 

Bob Hicok

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April 11, 2026