Protection Spell Jar gets an encore from The Slowdown today! This poem is about the magical spells #ocd tricks us into thinking are keeping us safe, from my memoir in prose poems, EXPLODING HEAD.

The Slowdown@slowdownshow.org · last mo.

“Today’s poem is from a collection of prose poems that chronicles a woman’s journey through obsessive-compulsive disorder, from childhood into adulthood," @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social shares in today's encore episode. Read “Protection Spell Jar" by Cynthia Marie Hoffman: bit.ly/3V1R4iN

This new lit journal is one to watch! 💥 Poems and creative nonfiction about pop culture.

Forget Cool@forgetcool.bsky.social · last mo.

Issue 1 is now LIVE! forget.cool/issue-1

Thank you, @litbowl.bsky.social , again, for sharing a poem from EXPLODING HEAD, my OCD memoir in prose poems, again. What have I done to deserve you? 🥹

Litbowl@litbowl.bsky.social · 7mo ago

This whole book. From @cynthiamhoffman.bsky.social's Exploding Head: bookshop.org/a/862/978089... #poem #booksky #writing

“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...” A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today. lithub.com/renee-nicole...

Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE, was a prize-winning poet. Here’s that poem.

Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered earlier today by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune: [An ICE agent] s…

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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.

Pre-order More Flowers by Susan L. Leary

NOTE: This book releases on February 1, 2026. Copies will be mailed in late January. Quiet tensions drive this collection: the ox walking on ice and the voice box buried in a meadow, frayed wings gras...

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Susan L. Leary@susanlleary.bsky.social · 10mo ago

THESE gorgeous words from @cynthiamhoffman.bsky.social about MORE FLOWERS (@triohousepress.org)! I am so happy to have one of my favorite poets (& people!) endorse this collection & with a book about being seen, it is wonderful to see myself in her insights & to feel so affirmed. Thank you, Cynthia!

"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 !!

Litbowl@litbowl.bsky.social · 11mo ago

From @cynthiamhoffman.bsky.social's book, Exploding Head: bookshop.org/a/862/9780892555772 #poem #books #writing

To not only be read but also re-read is such a gift. Thank you @thorntonforreal.bsky.social

Lisa Thornton@thorntonforreal.bsky.social · 12mo ago

I loved these poetry books by @josehernandezdz.bsky.social and @cynthiamhoffman.bsky.social when I first read them but I didn’t know they would become my friends and I would return to them over & over when I needed inspiration or just to feel like myself again. Get you some books like this.

"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, @djvorreyer.bsky.social !

Donna Vorreyer@djvorreyer.bsky.social · last yr.

Day Two: Exploding Head by @cynthiamhoffman.bsky.social

Cat and bird.

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-...

Write Two: The Prose Poem as Diptych Memoir

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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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?

The Notebooks Collective@notebookscltv.bsky.social · last yr.

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-...

you don't need chatGPT i am perfectly capable of drinking a bottle of water and lying to you

Thank you @litbowl.bsky.social 🌹 ⚡️ 🔪 🐰

Litbowl@litbowl.bsky.social · last yr.

From @cynthiamhoffman.bsky.social's book, Exploding Head. #poem #books #writing

I'm in my midlife/ motherhood sad rage era. Thanks to @swwim.bsky.social for giving this one a home. 🔪 🪓 🎸 🖤 🦋

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. tinyurl.com/4sycj8ph

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...

Cynthia Marie Hoffman & Sarah Kain Gutowski

Poets Cynthia Marie Hoffman and Sarah Kain Gutowski will read from their collected works, with an emphasis on their newest respective collections, both of which are cohesively themed (Cynthia’s is a…

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Prairie burn.

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

Addie Tsai (any/all) 🏳️‍🌈@addieisunwieldy.bsky.social · 2y ago

A new review/reflection up in our dis/connect column over at @anmlymag.bsky.social, of Samantha Jones' Attic Rain by @cynthiamhoffman.bsky.social: medium.com/anomalyblog/...

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.

I think now that I'm about to turn 50, I'm tired of putting my writing in a drawer for 6 months to see if I feel different about it later. I'm ready to trust myself in the present moment and be messy. We can't always live in fear that our future selves will be ashamed of our present selves.... ?

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Maureen Langloss@maureenlangloss.bsky.social · 2y ago

Valentine’s Day gift to myself! Excited to read these prose poems about life with OCD by @cynthiamhoffman.bsky.social

Floored by this stunning review of EXPLODING HEAD in North American Review! Thank you to Shannon K. Winston for spending time in deep communication with this book, and for seeing it so clearly. ✨ Read it here: northamericanreview.org/open-space/2...

Happy 1-year birthday to EXPLODING HEAD! 💥🤯📕🎂 I was planning to itemize the year's accomplishments, but then I woke to a beautiful email that echoed so many of the meaningful connections I've made with people who have OCD (and loved ones with OCD). So that's what I want to celebrate. Thank you. ✨

Thank you for sharing this poem, @litbowl.bsky.social !! I'm celebrating the one-year anniversary of Exploding Head's pub date today! 🎂💥🤯📕✨

Litbowl@litbowl.bsky.social · 2y ago

From @cynthiamhoffman.bsky.social 's book, Exploding Head. #poem #cynthiamariehoffman #poetry #books

Looking forward to being In Conversation with Sarah Kain Gutowski on March 18 at @notebookscltv.bsky.social . I have a long history with this fabulist (and fabulous) poet, and we're going to talk about so many things, including what we learned pitching events and readings for our new books in 2024.

The Notebooks Collective@notebookscltv.bsky.social · 2y ago

We've added to our schedule since posting! Look for info (coming soon) about July's In Conversation with Brandel France de Bravo & Marcela Sulak, a celebration of @ellenaustinli.bsky.social's new book, and classes with @cynthiamhoffman.bsky.social José Angel Araguz & @bennysummerhill.bsky.social!

What a nice surprise to be paired with Joan Kwon Glass for this poetry reading!! WHAT: Cafe Muse Literary Salon WHEN: Monday, Feb 3, 7:30 PM Eastern WHERE: ZOOM! 🏎️ Hosted by The Word Works 🧡 REGISTER to receive the link: sites.google.com/view/cafe-mu... Would love to see you in cyberspace!