In person at Brookline Booksmith! Join us for an evening of poetry with Richard Hoffman & Jennifer Funk.

This event is part of Third Thursdays Poetry, a monthly reading series at Brookline Booksmith.

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Third Thursdays Poetry: October

Richard Hoffman has published five books of poetry, Without Paradise; Gold Star Road, winner of the Sheila Motton Book Award from the New England Poetry Club; Emblem; Noon until Night, winner of the 2018 Massachusetts Book Award, and his most recent, People Once Real. His other books include the memoirs Half the House and Love & Fury, Interference and Other Stories, and Remembering the Alchemists and Other Essays. He is Emeritus Writer in Residence at Emerson College in Boston and nonfiction editor of Solstice: A Magazine of Diverse Voices.

Jennifer Funk is a native Californian trying to prove her mettle in New England. A graduate of Bennington College and of Warren Wilson's MFA Program for Writers, she has been a scholarship recipient of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and The Frost Place. Her poems have appeared in Kenyon Review, Four Way Review, Cimarron Review, The Boiler, and elsewhere. Fantasy of Loving the Fantasy is her debut collection.