![]() ![]() ![]() Since its inception, the Hoffer has become one of the largest international book awards for small, academic, and independent presses.Ĭongratulations to our fellow poetry recipients:ġst Runner-Up: The Mauled Keeper by Lynn Marie Houston May the book have a long life!Ībout the Award: The Eric Hoffer Award honors the memory of the great American philosopher Eric Hoffer by highlighting salient writing, as well as the independent spirit of small publishers. This award honors your beautiful and life-sustaining work. The editors offer a book to savor, read slowly, smile at, sigh over, and cherish always.”Ī big shout-out to our publisher, Ginny Connors of Grayson Books, and to every poet in the anthology. Addressing mindfulness, these poems encourage us to look, not only inward but outward, to become more aware of how we are, or can be, more thoughtful in all aspects of the only life we have to live. Most all it motivates us to reach out for something more substantial, more magical than anything found in the here and now. In so doing, the multitude of poets from all walks of life pack an emotional wallop. ![]() This truly unforgettable anthology is filled with astute and lyrical observations of the world. If done well, every sound and word has something to say. In announcing the award, the judges wrote: “Poems are careful things. ![]()
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