Tomorrow — Huge Lineup Of Authors Will Appear At Montclair Literary Festival | Montclair, NJ patch.com/new-jersey/mon…

Chicago tonight!

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You can get there from here, though
there’s no going home.
Everywhere you go will be somewhere
you’ve never been.

—Natasha Trethewey, Academy Chancellor, born #OTD

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The Poetry Foundation is funding a new grant program to help presses, while more than 70 former SPD clients have found new distribution partners. buff.ly/3wa20ig

police action happening now at emory

Richie never misses

The hours we didn’t do anything
But sit on the floor in silence:
Nothing more erotic than being in the same room
Not interacting—

This single-stanza beauty from Richie Hofmann in The Yale Review. His stanzas are so statuesque to me, so carefully carved.

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Oh my god, Richie Hofmann always alienates me. How does he always pack so much into these concise poems?Emotionally searing with enough palpable yearning to make me want to gnaw a table leg. And that ending! So, so good.

'He was sweating, he was late.
I was suffering from beauty,'

'The sun was moving in the glass of buildings.
He was sweating, he was late.
I was suffering from beauty,
Thirstiest in the morning,
Sleeping in my T-shirt with stiff yellow armpits.'

—Richie Hofmann, 'Young People'

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'Nothing more erotic than being in the same room
Not interacting—'
This is a sensation I have often experienced, but never before seen expressed. Richie is a wonder.

I mean this very respectfully but Richie Hofmann poetry is so lush and sexy

Saddened to learn that the great critic, Helen Vendler has died. What an intellect. May she rest in peace. 'The ethical responsibility of the poet is emotional accuracy.' - Helen Vendler

'His belly was so warm.
He knew my name.
I could taste almonds in his mouth.'

—Richie Hofmann, 'Young People,' TYR's Poem of the Week: yalereview.org/article/richie…

Coming this October from Mosab Abu Toha & Alfred A. Knopf - a new collection of poems, Forest of Noise ❤️❤️

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My sonnet about a guy with dementia who recapitulates the sonnets of Shakespeare

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Gosh y'all I do try to write poems, and I'm so stoked when folks seem interested in them, and I'm SO SO stoked and grateful that Poetry Daily posted this one from 'The Many Hundreds of the Scent.' I hope you like it. poems.com/poem/race-in-l…

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On Louise Glück’s birthday, three recent episodes of the podcast:

Elisa Gonzalez (Elisa Gonzalez) on “A Village Life”: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/clo…

Langdon Hammer on “A Foreshortened Journey”: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/clo…

Ellen Bryant Voigt on “Brooding Likeness”: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/clo…