@cynthiamhoffman
Poet. Exploding Head (an OCD memoir in prose poems), Call Me When You Want to Talk about the Tombstones, Paper Doll Fetus, Sightseer. Essays in TIME, The Sun, Lit Hub. (she/her) www.cynthiamariehoffman.com
“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...”
A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.
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Excited for @susanlleary.bsky.social 's newest poetry collection to hit the shelves on February 1st! 🌺 You will love it. I was honored to read it early and offer this blurb.
?? What did you miss?
"A great many things will happen to you, but none of the things you are afraid of." 🪶 🛁 🐦
Thank you for sharing this poem, @litbowl.bsky.social !!
To not only be read but also re-read is such a gift. Thank you @thorntonforreal.bsky.social
Aw!!! Thank you so much, @thorntonforreal.bsky.social !!
A graphic featuring a portion of Cynthia Marie Hoffman's poem
A photo of poet Cynthia Marie Hoffman
"I admire the way we’re invited into the speaker’s consciousness, to see her mind at work," says host @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social in today's episode.
Read “Protection Spell Jar" by @cynthiamhoffman.bsky.social and our full episode transcript: bit.ly/3J9U8Uw
📖: Persea Books
Thank you so much.
Thank you, @djvorreyer.bsky.social !
Cat and bird.
Info and registration here:
thenotebookscollective.com/event/write-...
Summer is a busy time for filling up classes, but if you know anyone who might be interested in this, I'd love it if you'd share!
Two poems in two hours ! This Sunday!🦋
Write Two: The Prose Poem as Diptych Memoir on Sunday, July 27, from 4-6 PM ET.
Friends, we'd love for you to join us for this class on Sunday, July 27th. @cynthiamhoffman.bsky.social is teaching Write Two: The Prose Poem as Diptych Memoir and whew, does it promise to be an amazing two hours.
thenotebookscollective.com/event/write-...
I blame the root cause of my undying obsession with the poetic series and project books on a creative writing teacher who introduced me to the diptych. Now I want you to to suffer, too! (Ha! I mean... prosper!). And it's just a really cool form.
Would you share with anyone who might be interested?
you don't need chatGPT i am perfectly capable of drinking a bottle of water and lying to you
Thank you @litbowl.bsky.social
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Thank you for sharing this. ❤️ Hoping for better days.
I'm in my midlife/ motherhood sad rage era. Thanks to @swwim.bsky.social for giving this one a home.
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Poem by Cynthia Marie Hoffman called "You with the Getting Shot" It is a crisp autumn day when you get shot walking by the parking lot on your way to the lake. An arm goes up. A gun blows a hard kiss. You continue down the path, stepping around the acorns. You already got shot twice this morning. Always, you with the getting shot. You need to just let it pass. The lake goes on dragging the heavens this way and that. Your skin grows over the bullet. You sit at the shore with your back to the park pavilion where someone dismounts a bicycle and pulls out a gun. Over the years, your body has filled like a penny jar with bullets. Someone's creeping through the trees. Your body heavy on the park bench. You watch clouds becoming snarled in the rippling water, angels drowning in their tangled skirts. Someone's breathing down your back. There is no bone left in your body that isn't a clattering procession of bullets. You just need to rest for a bit. One after another, the white knots bob toward the shore but never fully arrive. Even if they did, even if they tumbled gasping at your feet in gauzy threads, you with your buckshot hands, your mind a shuddering animal hunkered down inside your skull, heaven help you, couldn't do a thing about it.
For some reason, today seems like a great day to post "You with the Getting Shot" by @cynthiamhoffman.bsky.social
With cuts to funding, resources, and rights--writing the disability experience is ever more urgent and necessary.
✨ EXPLODING HEAD✨ is on this Reading List of 7 poetry books for @electricliterature.com, in which @sfmontgomery.bsky.social also talks about her craft book NERVE.
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Can't wait to chat with Sarah Kain Gutowski for @notebookscltv.bsky.social Tuesday! We'll read a little, chat a lot, and share what we learned from our year of jointly pitching events and readings and classes! Also, mental health and genre-hopping! Free: thenotebookscollective.com/event/in-con...
Prairie burn.
So, so sorry Maureen.
Info and registration here: www.lafayettewritersstudio.com/classes/sent...
There's still time to register for my zoom workshop Thursday, March 13.
We're going to write sentences and cut up sentences with scissors and talk about this really obvious but mind blowing concept of sentence combining and the infinitely (sort of) generative tool of modifying clauses and anaphora!
I've got an essay up on reading Attic Rain, a collection of poems about OCD by @sjonespoet.bsky.social !! Thank you @anmlymag.bsky.social for giving this piece the best home. So much important work here.
💧🙂 📕 @newestpress.bsky.social
I'm not! I was in Louisville for the Conference of Literature and Culture and decided I shouldn't miss the cave, even though it turned into an almost ten-hour driving day south and then back up home to Wisconsin!! I'm sure Natural Bridge is amazing, too!
Mammoth Cave!
Why are these experiences so brief and hurried and then they're just... over? How am I turning 50 in less than a week? I just want to sit in a dark and quiet cave, alone, just for a minute.
Wow. 🤩 Eye-catching!
