Richie Hofmann

Last updated
Richie Hofmann
BornRichard Joseph Hofmann
(1987-05-26) May 26, 1987 (age 37)
OccupationPoet
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater Boston University, Johns Hopkins University, Emory University
Genre American poetry, Ekphrastic poetry
SpouseRyan Hagerty

Richard "Richie" Joseph Hofmann, is an American poet, winner of the Alice James Award, and the Pushcart Prize. He is regularly published in The New Yorker, [1] [2] [3] and has been featured in The Atlantic, [4] The New York Times [5] [6] and The New York Review of Books. [7] Hofmann was the Jones Lecturer in poetry at Stanford University, where he taught poetry and creative writing courses. [8]

Contents

Life and career

Hofmann is of German descent on both sides, with his father's family originating from Speyer. [9] He spent his early childhood in Munich, which he cites as formative in his exploration of the concept of time, and his relationship to Europe within poetry. [10]

He has contributed to The New Yorker since 2013, including audio readings for the online portion of the magazine. In interviews Hofmann often cites music, in particular opera and musicals, as having a strong influence on his life and work. [11] He has described Sondheim's music as "the rock of my life", [12] and wrote the poem "Birthday" as a tribute to Mozart. [13] Hofmann collaborated with the composer Brian Baxter to write the lyrics for the piece "Old World Elegy" for voice and string quartet. The world premier was held in Chicago, hosted by the Poetry Foundation, and won the Memorious Art Song Contest of 2013. [14]

Hofmann's work often explores male desire, and relationship to the body. [15] Comparisons drawn between his work and that of the late French autofiction writer and photographer Hervé Guibert, led Hofmann to write more "intensely, in a way which was more vulgar". [16] He also frequently includes classical themes and images in his poetry. [17]

In 2015 Hofmann published his first collection of poems, titled "Second Empire" with Alice James Books which became critically acclaimed including the Pushcart Prize for poetry. [18] That year he also co-founded Lightbox Poetry, an online educational resource for creative writing, with fellow poet Kara van de Graaf. [19] One of his most widely known poems is "Book of Statues", about the hate crime murder of Matthew Shepard on October 12, 1998. The poem was first published by the Academy of American Poets Poem-a Day on October 12, 2016. On the twentieth remembrance of Matthew Shepard's murder in 2018, The New York Times featured his poem with a reading by actor Matt Bomer. [20]

Hofmann published his second poetry collection "A Hundred Lovers" in 2022 with Random House. [21] The book was featured in the list of top "46 Must-Read Books by Queer Writers" in Esquire Magazine. [22]

Awards

Hofmann has been the beneficiary of several fellowships, including the Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation and the Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University. [23] [8]

For his first collection of poems, "Second Empire", Hofmann won both the Alice James Award in 2014, and the Pushcart Prize.

Personal life

Hofmann is married to Ryan Hagerty to whom his first book, Second empire, is dedicated. [21] He has lived between the cities of Chicago and San Francisco.

Poetry collections

See also

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Chen Chen (poet)</span> American poet

Chen Chen is an American poet. His book, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities, was longlisted for the 2017 National Book Award for Poetry. Chen serves on the poetry faculty for the low-residency MFA programs at New England College and Stonecoast. He served as Jacob Ziskind Poet-in-Residence at Brandeis University from 2018 to 2022.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Brian Turner (American poet)</span> American poet

Brian Turner is an American poet, essayist, and professor. He won the 2005 Beatrice Hawley Award for his debut collection, Here, Bullet the first of many awards and honors received for this collection of poems about his experience as a soldier in the Iraq War. His honors since include a Lannan Literary Fellowship and NEA Literature Fellowship in Poetry, and the Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship. His second collection, shortlisted for the 2010 T.S. Eliot Prize is Phantom Noise.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Forrest Gander</span> Poet, essayist, novelist, critic, translator (born 1956)

Forrest Gander is an American poet, translator, essayist, and novelist. The A.K. Seaver Professor Emeritus of Literary Arts & Comparative Literature at Brown University, Gander won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2019 for Be With and is chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Linda Pastan</span> American poet (1932–2023)

Linda Pastan was an American poet of Jewish background. From 1991 to 1995 she was Poet Laureate of Maryland. She was known for writing short poems that address topics like family life, domesticity, motherhood, the female experience, aging, death, loss and the fear of loss, as well as the fragility of life and relationships. Her final collection of poetry was Almost an Elegy, published in 2022.

Robert Wrigley is an American poet and educator.

Donald Revell is an American poet, essayist, translator and professor.

B.H. Fairchild is an American poet and former college professor. His most recent book is An Ordinary Life, and his poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines including The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Southern Review, Poetry, TriQuarterly, The Hudson Review, Salmagundi, The Sewanee Review. His third poetry collection, The Art of the Lathe, winner of the 1997 Beatrice Hawley Award, brought Fairchild's work to national prominence, garnering him a large number of awards and fellowships including the William Carlos Williams Award, Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, California Book Award, Natalie Ornish Poetry Award, PEN Center USA West Poetry Award, National Book Award (finalist), Capricorn Poetry Award, and Rockefeller and Guggenheim fellowships. The book ultimately gave him international prominence, as The Waywiser Press in England published the U.K. edition of the book. The Los Angeles Times wrote that "The Art of the Lathe by B.H. Fairchild has become a contemporary classic—a passionate example of the plain style, so finely crafted and perfectly pitched...workhorse narratives suffused with tenderness and elegiac music."

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Lloyd Schwartz</span> American poet and professor (born 1941)

Lloyd Schwartz is an American poet, and the Frederick S. Troy Professor of English Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He was the classical music editor of The Boston Phoenix, a publication that is now defunct. He is Poet Laureate of Somerville, Massachusetts (2019-2021), Senior Music Editor at New York Arts and the Berkshire Review for the Arts, and a regular commentator for NPR's Fresh Air.

Geoffrey Brock is an American poet and translator. Since 2006 he has taught creative writing and literary translation at the University of Arkansas, where he is Distinguished Professor of English.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Terrance Hayes</span> American poet and educator (born 1971)

Terrance Hayes is an American poet and educator who has published seven poetry collections. His 2010 collection, Lighthead, won the National Book Award for Poetry in 2010. In September 2014, he was one of 21 recipients of a prestigious MacArthur Fellowship, awarded to individuals who show outstanding creativity in their work.

Cultural depictions of Matthew Shepard include notable films, musical works, novels, plays, and other works inspired by the 1998 Matthew Shepard murder, investigation, and resulting interest the case brought to the topic of hate crime. The best known is the stage play The Laramie Project, which was adapted into an HBO movie of the same name. Matthew Wayne Shepard was an openly gay university student who was brutally attacked near Laramie, Wyoming, in October 1998 and left for dead by his attackers.

The Alice James Award, formerly the Beatrice Hawley Award, is given annually by Alice James Books. The award includes publication of a book-length poetry manuscript and a cash prize.

Jeffrey W. Harrison is an American poet. Born in Cincinnati, he was educated at Columbia University, where he studied with Kenneth Koch and David Shapiro. His most recent poetry collection is Into Daylight, which follows The Names of Things: New & Selected Poems. His poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines, including The New Republic, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Poetry, The Yale Review, Poets of the New Century. His honors include Pushcart Prizes, Guggenheim, National Endowment for the Arts, and Amy Lowell Traveling fellowships. He has taught at George Washington University, Phillips Academy, and College of the Holy Cross. He is currently on the faculty of the Stonecoast MFA Program at the University of Southern Maine. He lives in Dover, Massachusetts.

Terry Randolph Hummer is an American poet, critic, essayist, editor, and professor. His most recent books of poetry are After the Afterlife and the three linked volumes Ephemeron, Skandalon, and Eon. He has published poems in literary journals and magazines including The New Yorker, Harper's, Atlantic Monthly, The Literati Quarterly, Paris Review, and Georgia Review. His honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship inclusion in the 1995 edition of Best American Poetry, the Hanes Prize for Poetry, the Richard Wright Award for Literary Excellence, and three Pushcart Prizes.

Timothy Liu is an American poet and the author of such books as Bending the Mind Around the Dream's Blown Fuse, For Dust Thou Art, Of Thee I Sing, Hard Evidence, Say Goodnight, Burnt Offerings and Vox Angelica. He is also the editor of Word of Mouth: An Anthology of Gay American Poetry.

Diann Blakely was an American poet, essayist, editor, and critic. She taught at Belmont University, Harvard University, Vanderbilt University, led workshops at two Vermont College residencies, and served as senior instructor and the first poet-in-residence at the Harpeth Hall School in Nashville, Tennessee. A "Robert Frost Fellow" at Bread Loaf, she was a Dakin Williams Fellow at the Sewanee Writers' Conference at which she had worked earlier as founding coordinator.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Alex Dimitrov</span> American poet living in New York City

Alex Dimitrov is an American poet living in New York City.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Patricia Lockwood</span> American poet and author (born 1982)

Patricia Lockwood is an American poet, novelist, and essayist. Beginning a career in poetry, her collections include Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals, a 2014 New York Times Notable Book. Later prose works received more exposure and notoriety. She is a multiple award winner: her 2017 memoir Priestdaddy won the Thurber Prize for American Humor and her 2021 debut novel, No One Is Talking About This, won the Dylan Thomas Prize. In addition to her writing activities, she has been a contributing editor for the London Review of Books since 2019.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kaveh Akbar</span> Iranian-American writer

Kaveh Akbar is an Iranian American poet, novelist, and editor. He is the author of the poetry collections Calling a Wolf a Wolf and Pilgrim Bell and of the novel Martyr!, a New York Times bestseller and one of Barack Obama's favorite books of the year.

The Adroit Journal is an American literary magazine founded in November 2010. Published five times per year by founding editor Peter LaBerge, The Adroit Journal is currently based in Philadelphia. The journal was produced with the support of the University of Pennsylvania's Kelly Writers House from 2013 to 2017 and was based in the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City from 2017-2019 and 2020-2023 respectively.

References

  1. ↑ ""French Novel"". The New Yorker. 1 April 2019. Retrieved 3 October 2022.
  2. ↑ ""Under Limestone"". The New Yorker. 14 May 2021. Retrieved 3 October 2022.
  3. ↑ "Idyll". The New Yorker. 21 January 2013. Retrieved 3 October 2022.
  4. ↑ Hofmann, Richie (13 March 2022). "Night Star". The Atlantic. Retrieved 3 October 2022.
  5. ↑ Rider, Jason (6 March 2013). "Young Poets Society". The New York Times . Retrieved 6 October 2022.
  6. ↑ Chee, Alexander (26 February 2018). "'The Boys in the Band' Cast Reads Queer Poetry". The New York Times. Retrieved 3 October 2022.
  7. ↑ Hofmann, Richie. "At the Rustic Hamlet Built in 1783 for Marie Antoinette, Last Queen of France | Richie Hofmann". New York Review of Books. Retrieved 3 October 2022.
  8. 1 2 "Richie Hofmann | Department of English". Stanford University. Retrieved 3 October 2022.
  9. ↑ Wiora, Brian (17 September 2018). "Heading Back into Memory: An Interview with Richie Hofmann". Columbia Journal. Retrieved 3 October 2022.
  10. ↑ Hofmann, Richie. "My Ekphrasis". Nicholas Hall. Retrieved 3 October 2022.
  11. ↑ Shpakow, Tatiana; Voruganti, Priyanka. "3Q4: Richie Hofmann". The Interlochen Review. Retrieved 4 October 2022.
  12. ↑ Case, Doug Paul. "Being Cute, Being Funny: An Interview with Richie Hofmann by Doug Paul Case". www.hobartpulp.com. Retrieved 4 October 2022.
  13. ↑ Hofmann, Richie. "Birthday by Richie Hofmann - Poems | Academy of American Poets". poets.org. Academy of American Poets. Retrieved 4 October 2022.
  14. ↑ Hofmann, Richard Joseph (13 March 2014). Blackletter (Thesis). Johns Hopkins University. p. 56. Retrieved 6 October 2022.
  15. ↑ "Interview with Richie Hofmann". Napkin Poetry Review. Retrieved 3 October 2022.
  16. ↑ Mehrish, Divya (10 August 2022). "Issue Forty-Two: A Conversation with Richie Hofmann - The Adroit Journal". The Adroit Journal. Retrieved 3 October 2022.
  17. ↑ Harrison, Julia. "3Q4: Richie Hofmann". The Sewanee Review. Retrieved 3 October 2022.
  18. ↑ Hofmann, Richie (2015). Second empire. Farmington, Maine: Alice James Books. ISBN   9781938584169.
  19. ↑ "About". Lightbox Poetry. Retrieved 3 October 2022.
  20. ↑ Stumpf, Brendan (26 February 2018). "Video: Read T a Poem | Matt Bomer". The New York Times. Retrieved 3 October 2022.
  21. 1 2 Hofmann, Richie (2022). A hundred lovers : poems (First ed.). New York. ISBN   9780593320983.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  22. ↑ Ortile, Matt (16 June 2022). "46 Must-Read Books by Queer Writers". Esquire. Retrieved 4 October 2022.
  23. ↑ Staff, Harriet (3 October 2022). "Richie Hofmann on the Significance of Louise Glück's Nobel Win by Harriet Staff". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 4 October 2022.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.