From Fall 1994 Explore This Issue Scott Nearing’s Ninety-Eighth Year By Daniel Hoffman From the Fall 1994 Issue Daniel Hoffman, a former Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (1973–74), will publish his thirteenth book of verse, Next to Last Words, in April 2013, on the occasion of his ninetieth birthday. ← Imagining the Postmodern Family → The Gesture