Richie Hofmann’s new book of poems, The Bronze Arms, is longlisted for the 2026 National Book Award.
Richie Hofmann is the recipient of a 2025 Guggenheim Fellowship and a 2025 Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. His poetry appears in three acclaimed collections, The Bronze Arms (2026), A Hundred Lovers (2022), and Second Empire (2015), and in The Paris Review, The New Yorker, Poetry, and The Yale Review. His honors include the Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation and the Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University.
Poems
The New Yorker: “Men’s Beds”
The New Yorker: “Arms”
The Paris Review: “Armed Cavalier”
The New Yorker: “French Novel”
The Atlantic: “Night Star”
Poetry: “Breed Me”
Poetry: “Dolphin”
Poets.org: “Lamb”
The New Republic: “The Bronze Arms”
The Yale Review: “Young People”
Upcoming Poetry Readings
10.5 - University of Vermont
10.21 - Hudson Valley Writers (virtual)
10.26 - Centenary College
10.30 - Chicago