Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007–2020

Richie Hofmann’s new book of poems, <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/689918/a-hundred-lovers-by-richie-hofmann/">A Hundred Lovers</a>, is out now from Knopf. He is the author of <a href="https://bookshop.org/books/second-empire/9781938584169">Second Empire</a> (2015), and his poetry appears recently in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, and The Yale Review. He teaches at Stanford University.

Richie Hofmann

“Persuasion Fills a Body”: On Carl Phillips’s “Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007–2020”

"I have nothing to say, and I am saying it, and that is poetry." — John Cage

Poetry

The Tradition

Love and Death: On Jericho Brown’s “The Tradition”

The Book of Ephraim

Clever Ghosts: James Merrill’s “The Book of Ephraim”

Richie Hofmann’s new book of poems, <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/689918/a-hundred-lovers-by-richie-hofmann/">A Hundred Lovers</a>, is out now from Knopf. He is the author of <a href="https://bookshop.org/books/second-empire/9781938584169">Second Empire</a> (2015), and his poetry appears recently in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, and The Yale Review. He teaches at Stanford University.