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Nov/Dec 2021 • Vol. XLIII No. 6 • Poetry |

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By Richie Hofmann

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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.

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