Richie Hofmann is the author of two books of poems, A Hundred Lovers (Alfred A. Knopf, 2022) and Second Empire (Alice James Books, 2015). His poetry has appeared most recently in The Paris Review, The New Yorker, Poetry, and The Yale Review, and he has been honored with the Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship and the Wallace Stegner Fellowship.
2024 Grodd Poetry Prize
Fall 2024
Introduction
What are the young poets thinking and writing about? In reading this year’s brilliant submissions for the Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize, awarded to the very best writing by poets in […]
Why We Chose It
Mar/Apr 2022
Why We Chose It: “Human Resources” by Ryann Stevenson
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Nov/Dec 2021
Things That Are Rare
It is so easy to imagine your absence. Maybe it is night, we are still handsome. All the young are. It is so easy. Another thing to be beautiful. How […]
Poetry
Nov/Dec 2021
Linen
In my room, there are flowers wrapped in newspaper. Hotels are places of sadness. Outside, the grass scorched by the sun, but the pool is so cold. It’s the end […]
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Jan/Feb 2015
Powdered Wig
It is the only thing I want. I am seven, blond-haired, fey in my interactions. I hold a bright-green gift. I know I’m a boy, but I love the fancy […]
Summer 2016
Sacred and Profane Love
Our overnight train was outpacing
the countryside, the speed at which it moved flattening the grass,