Elizabeth Metzger - "The Going Is Forever: Poems" - Richie Hofmann

Elizabeth Metzger is the author of The Going Is Forever and Lying In, as well as The Spirit Papers, winner of the Juniper Prize for Poetry. She has published two chapbooks, Bed and The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death. Her poems have recently appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The New York Review, TLS, and Poetry. She is a poetry editor at The Los Angeles Review of Books and teaches poetry at 92NY and Columbia University.

Richie Hofmann is the author of three books of poetry—The Bronze Arms (2026), A Hundred Lovers (2022), and Second Empire (2015)—and the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. His poetry appears in The Paris Review and The New Yorker, and he has taught recently at Stanford University and the University of Chicago.