December 31st
Richard Hoffman, “December 31st” from Emblem. Copyright © 2011 by Richard Hoffman. Reprinted by permission of Barrow Street Press.
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Poet Richard Hoffman b. 1949
POET’S REGION U.S., New England
Subjects Living, Life Choices, Time & Brevity, Nature, Winter, Arts & Sciences, Painting & Sculpture
Holidays New Year
Poetic Terms Couplet
Biography
Poet and teacher Richard Hoffman earned a BA in English from Fordham University and an MFA in creative writing from Goddard College. He is the author of the poetry collections Without Paradise: Poems (2002) and Gold Star Road (2007), which was selected by Molly Peacock for the Barrow Street Press Poetry Prize and won the Sheila Motton Award from the New England Poetry Club.
Hoffman is also the author of the memoir Half the House . . .
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SUBJECT Living, Life Choices, Time & Brevity, Nature, Winter, Arts & Sciences, Painting & Sculpture
POET’S REGION U.S., New England
Poetic Terms Couplet
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