June 28, 2026

Richie Hofmann

Richie Hofmann

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

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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.

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