Kelly Hoffer
@kellyrosehoffer.bsky.social
poemsss Fire Series (University of Pittsburgh Press 2026) UNDERSHORE (Lightscatter Press 2023) https://bio.site/kellyrosehoffer
🔥 In "Fire Series", Kelly Hoffer follows the mythic force of fire through grief, sex, anger and nationhood, asking how language can remake what it cannot resolve. Discover this and more Pitt Poetry:https://bit.ly/4uFIYJS @upittpress.bsky.social @kellyrosehoffer.bsky.social
Poem by our 2018 Iowa Poetry Workshop convenor @kellyrosehoffer.bsky.social on The Slowdown
The Slowdown@slowdownshow.org · 6mo ago"It’s odd, when I think about ... how we are soothed by the contained version of something that can harm us," @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social shares in episode 1465. Read "Or am I a room with a roof taken off, still holding onto my idea of ceiling" by @kellyrosehoffer.bsky.social: bit.ly/40ird5P
"It’s odd, when I think about ... how we are soothed by the contained version of something that can harm us," @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social shares in episode 1465. Read "Or am I a room with a roof taken off, still holding onto my idea of ceiling" by @kellyrosehoffer.bsky.social: bit.ly/40ird5P
Sometimes a prompt is useful if only because it gives you an instruction you can disobey, but disobey specifically
✒️ 📔 Today's the day of our C.D. Wright cluster! Ed. @aliciawright.bsky.social ft. 11 contributors—the list is too long to fit into a single post! But you're in luck, bc the thread below tells the tale of this exceptional homage for an exceptionally talented poet! post45.org/contemporaries
Contemporaries – Post45
Post45 seeks to reinvigorate the erstwhile convention of academic critics not only describing past traditions but also actively intervening in current tastes. It provides a forum for writers to conver...
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In her meditation on intermediality, @kellyrosehoffer.bsky.social brings together Agnest Martin, Anne Truitt, and C.D. Wright. This essay is a rhapsodic read, and takes up the loving and difficult work of aesthetics with an eye towards new (im)possibilities. post45.org/2025/11/the-...
The Dialogue of the Eye: Wright, Truitt, and Martin – Post45
Not to know but to go on.Anything is a mirror.There are two endless directions. In and out.((Agnes Martin, Agnes Martin: Writings = Schriften, ed. Dieter Schwarz (Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2005), ...
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Few things more joyous than seeing adults on my bus commute in full costume today
Have just learned the term “slut’s wool” for dust bunnies
Nothing spurs poem-writing like having a batch of student essays that need feedback urgently: a craft talk
Woman putting on deodorant on her bus commute…my queen
“Just because this poem uses the ‘I’ doesn’t mean it’s confessional” the poem:
Today’s Featured Poem: “Hungry Poem” by Rennie Ament from @clereviewbooks.bsky.social Read here: poems.com/poem/hungry-...
Hungry Poem
I ate insincerely bowls of BBQ tofu chunks.
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Guy working at my local deli has a hat that just says “sandwiches”
Today's Featured Poem: "Visitation" by @kellyrosehoffer.bsky.social, from UNDERSHORE, published by @lightscatterpress.bsky.social. Read here: poems.com/poem/visitat...
Visitation
in the dream where I don't know she is dead, she comes to me and I talk to her about none of the things I want to
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Embarrassed that I still need to use pomodoros to do any sort of critical writing
"I am proliferating signals. My definitions of noise becoming noisy: shifting, untrackable. I push on." Introducing the inaugural essay in our Staging Style series, "Beyond Craft: Six Recent Experiences with Noise" by Kelly Hoffer (@kellyrosehoffer.bsky.social). nereview.com/beyond-craft...
Past Kelly cleaned the kitchen before she left for the weekend and boy do I love her
I decided to start a #thread 🧵 of stories about legal residents and tourists being (illegally) arrested, detained and/or deported by the Trump regime. I'll only post stories from serious sources, as rumors and conspiracies are really not needed in this authoritarian moment.
Robin Blaser has a book called Pell Mell and I think that’s a great title
I’m back baby, thanks again to @stuwatson.bsky.social & @kqandrews.bsky.social www.thenation.com/article/cult...
Ronald Johnson’s American Romanticism
An inheritor of a distinct tradition that stretched back to Coleridge and Emerson, Johnson’s naturalistic poetry was immersive and intimate all at once.
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Drinking three beverages of various temperatures to achieve homeostasis, or how I became Goldilocks in my office
Shout out to my partner who just dropped off the book I am teaching this afternoon at my office—it felt magical like having your mom drop off mcdonalds for lunch at elementary school
P.S. @daybreakjung.bsky.social says "Each page hums with questions of devotion and doubt" and @kellyrosehoffer.bsky.social called the book "a portrait of my brain lit up as I am just about to sneeze," if you need any more encouragement to check it out ;)
There was an elderly chihuahua named Billie at the poetry reading last night, and now I have decided every literary event needs a familiar
Adding jalapeño flavored potato chips to my egg sandwich—get on my level
really enjoyed @kellyrosehoffer.bsky.social 's 2024 poetry chapbook with Tilted House Press, _the photo I don't write about_, a really sweet book letting medium cutely but powerfully work out the themes
