Cynthia Marie Hoffman
@CynthiaMHoffman
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Essays in The Sun, Time, Lit Hub. Poems in The Believer, Electric Literature, Image. EXPLODING HEAD (Feb '24, Persea Books) and 3 more poetry collections.
Wisconsin, US
Joined January 2015
"The last thing I saw before the accident was the windshield full of trees." I'm honored to see my essay, "The Beast in Your Head" so beautifully presented in the August issue of @TheSunMagazine. A car accident, #OCD, Metallica, and finding joy. 🎶
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Two poems in two hours ! Join me this Sunday!🦋 I'm teaching "Write Two: The Prose Poem as Diptych Memoir on Sunday, July 27, from 4-6 PM ET. Every book of poems I've written started from the essential intertextuality of the diptych. https://t.co/XBoBg8BhCA
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This is a class in dualities: two forms, two poems. (In two hours!) The two forms: We’ll explore the prose poem (a hybrid of prose and poetry) and the prose poem as memoir (a lyric rendering of a…
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Thanks to The Threepenny Review for printing my essay about deafness in Table Talk. Breaking my rule about running pics of a piece that is in a print magazine because I want to use this to launch a holiday appeal for friends to SUBSCRIBE to a literary journal!
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Are you signed up yet? Chestnut Review Press Chapbook launch event with Therese Gleason, Cynthia Hoffman, Sarah Sala, and Rita Maria Martinez will take place on Thursday, 12/12 at 7 pm ET. The zoom link will be emailed as a reminder on Tuesday, 12/10. https://t.co/wJQqyz7I6d
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"tangible evidence of the nothing you’d like to become." @simeonberry at @havehadhavehad
2 amazing new poems today from @simeonberry *The LaMacchia kids were kind of jerks and destined to have unsuccessful mustaches* but the older one was a decent Dungeon Master when working theatrically from a module, where he’d surprise us with a lonely... https://t.co/JIMKISr6BQ
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"We can do the body swap in the shower. When can we meet up?" Thanks @havehadhavehad and @amorak 💀🔥
in LOVE with today's @cynthiamhoffman poem!! "I know you won’t respond to this, but what does it feel like in your throat for all ten seconds you sustain that E♭5? I was among the 23,500 people screaming in the concert stadium like a gaping mouth..." https://t.co/QcMAO6qa7p
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Thank you for this (massive undertaking), @brecht_dp !
🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁 Friends, folks: it is my pleasure to bring you the 2025 lit mag rankings! Biggest changes this year are the inclusion of non-fiction + giving more weight to more recent data As always, please show your support by liking and sharing! 🙏 Enjoy! https://t.co/C6J5V9dzX8
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Exciting news! @emilylauracosta !!
hi! I have a new book coming out soon. if u like bagels, believing in aliens, dead malls, dumb videos, being italian-american, ice cream, stealing your mom’s credit card, or watching horror movie marathons, u might like it 💚 ty! the ⛓️ is☝️
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A prose poem (they're all prose poems!) from Exploding Head. Thanks for sharing, @simeonberry .
“If your foot dangles off the edge of the bed, a metal blade rises from the floor and slices it off. The blade has already been installed in the floor. How do you know you haven’t murdered someone accidentally?” —@CynthiaMHoffman, “This Is All True”
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Just saw this book in-person tonight and it is gorgeous. 🤩✨
If you want to see me & my brand new graphic novel FRENCH GIRL this week: 9/11 at 7 @WIBookFestival at Madison Public Library 9/14 & 15 @SPXcomics in D.C at the @FieldmousePress table https://t.co/WQQTcoIdNb 9/15 at 5 In conversation with @ambernoelle @lostcitybooks
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Writers! The 2024 Larry Brown Short Story Award is open now through October 31st. This year's guest judge is Danielle Lazarin. We can't wait to read your work! Find more details here: https://t.co/4fXOJdNESi
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Join us next week, August 21st, for community poetry workshop—led by poet Cynthia Marie Hoffman (@CynthiaMHoffman)! 6:30 – 8:00pm and just $10. Follow the link for more info.
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I'm so lucky that, because of Exploding Head, I got to meet @emilylauracosta and read her brave and wildly entertaining book Until It Feels Right. Thank you @CraftLiterary for hosting our conversation about these two #OCD memoirs.
New #interview: "I started writing this book because of loneliness. I was in my thirties, still exhausted from the effort of hiding, and I finally just had to open up." —@CynthiaMHoffman in conversation with @emilylauracosta
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I'm looking forward to The Sealey Challenge again this year! Please share your recs below! 📚
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If you're looking for a book for The Sealey Challenge, may I recommend EXPLODING HEAD!
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Check out Exploding Head - This collection of prose poems chronicles a woman's childhood onset and adult journey through obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), which manifests in fearful obsessions and...
@ae_thepoet EXPLODING HEAD (Persea, '24), a memoir in prose poems, meant to be read front to back, perfect for the Sealey Challenge! It's about OCD but think car accidents, spooky forest hauntings, a recurring angel figure, nightmares, counting.
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Thank you @simeonberry for sharing this poem from EXPLODING HEAD! This is a glimpse, from my memoir in prose poems, into how I experience #OCD. @PerseaBooks
“Someone said you look like a porcelain doll. One of the other kids called you a ghost. Stand against a white wall, and no one can see you. While you sleep, the gas is a swarm of stars.” —@CynthiaMHoffman, “A Fiery Ball of Fire” @PerseaBooks
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