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Liverpool Distribution Services at Liverpool University Press @lupdistribution.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

🔥 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

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IIML @modernletters.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Poem by our 2018 Iowa Poetry Workshop convenor @kellyrosehoffer.bsky.social on The Slowdown

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The Slowdown @slowdownshow.org · 26/02/2026

"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

Graphic featuring a portion of Kelly Hoffer's poem, which can be found in full at the link in the post.

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Kelly Hoffer @kellyrosehoffer.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Sometimes a prompt is useful if only because it gives you an instruction you can disobey, but disobey specifically

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Contemporaries at Post45 @atpost45.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

✒️ 📔 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

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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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Contemporaries at Post45 @atpost45.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

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-...

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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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Kelly Hoffer @kellyrosehoffer.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Few things more joyous than seeing adults on my bus commute in full costume today

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Kelly Hoffer @kellyrosehoffer.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Have just learned the term “slut’s wool” for dust bunnies

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Kelly Hoffer @kellyrosehoffer.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Nothing spurs poem-writing like having a batch of student essays that need feedback urgently: a craft talk

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Kelly Hoffer @kellyrosehoffer.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Woman putting on deodorant on her bus commute…my queen

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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

“Just because this poem uses the ‘I’ doesn’t mean it’s confessional” the poem:

a white door that someone ran into, leaving the impression of a face sketched in foundation and lipstick, and on which dangles one band of fake eyelashes

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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Today’s Featured Poem: “Hungry Poem” by Rennie Ament from @clereviewbooks.bsky.social Read here: poems.com/poem/hungry-...

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Hungry Poem

I ate insincerely bowls of BBQ tofu chunks.

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Kelly Hoffer @kellyrosehoffer.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Guy working at my local deli has a hat that just says “sandwiches”

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Kelly Hoffer @kellyrosehoffer.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Embarrassed that I still need to use pomodoros to do any sort of critical writing

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New England Review @newenglandreview.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

"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...

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Kelly Hoffer @kellyrosehoffer.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Past Kelly cleaned the kitchen before she left for the weekend and boy do I love her

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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

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.

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Kelly Hoffer @kellyrosehoffer.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Robin Blaser has a book called Pell Mell and I think that’s a great title

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Kelly Hoffer @kellyrosehoffer.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Drinking three beverages of various temperatures to achieve homeostasis, or how I became Goldilocks in my office

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Kelly Hoffer @kellyrosehoffer.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

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

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Kelsi Vanada @kelsivanada.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

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 ;)

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Kelly Hoffer @kellyrosehoffer.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

There was an elderly chihuahua named Billie at the poetry reading last night, and now I have decided every literary event needs a familiar

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Kelly Hoffer @kellyrosehoffer.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Adding jalapeño flavored potato chips to my egg sandwich—get on my level

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jericho jennifer nelson @henkaipantomime.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

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

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Kelly Hoffer @kellyrosehoffer.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

I can feel my poems getting angrier

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Kelly Hoffer @kellyrosehoffer.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Um lol “We don’t just review Paris” Did @tacobellquarterly.org write this?

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Kelly Hoffer @kellyrosehoffer.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

My microchap—the photo I don’t write about—is here! Available from Tilted House www.tiltedhouse.org/shop/the-pho...

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Kelly Hoffer @kellyrosehoffer.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

A man just went “ah!” when encountering the cold as he was leaving my local market

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Kelly Hoffer @kellyrosehoffer.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Was feeling some shame about how often I hear my neighbor’s vacuum in comparison to my own slovenliness, but then discovered they have a cleaning service 😎

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Jack Saebyok Jung 정새벽 @daybreakjung.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

My first book of poetry coming soon from Black Square Editions.

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Lisa Robertson

Debt has rep laced Latin
As the univer sal language.

Oh take off the fu cking tight helmet
of thi nking
for the total imbrication
of ri me
and shatter ed gardens.

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Kelly Hoffer @kellyrosehoffer.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

I did a full day of work today, which is to say a full day of academic work, which is to say 4 hours of concentrated typing into my silly little computer

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Bringing the energy into 2025

Werner Herzog reciting a time he heard someone claim documentary makers shouldn't be a fly on the wall and grabbed the mic to say "No! We are directors, we are creators, we should be the hornets that sing. There was a roar of disgust against me. So I shouted, Happy New Year losers!"

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Kelly Hoffer @kellyrosehoffer.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

I do not understand people who line up before their zone is called at the airport

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Kelly Hoffer @kellyrosehoffer.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

My 2yo nephew has been saying “Oh, brothers!” as his lament of choice

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Kelly Hoffer @kellyrosehoffer.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

I know I’m on vacation because I spent hours reading a novel both today and yesterday

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Kelly Hoffer @kellyrosehoffer.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Playing roulette with shishito peppers

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Merciless troll lord @gorsebloom.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Sicknasty poetry from @kellyrosehoffer.bsky.social for Chrimbo & what a killer closing line 🌟🌟🌟

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it took an hour, maevey a day @maeveynot.online · 25/12/2024

you become the orange. / I call it again, a slice at a time. / my tongue lets me make of you a hymn.

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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Today’s Featured Poem: “An exercise in which I try to see blue in the red flame.” by @kellyrosehoffer.bsky.social, from Issue 4 of Works & Days. Read here: poems.com/poem/an-exer...

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An exercise in which I try to see blue in the red flame. – Poetry Daily

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Kelly Hoffer @kellyrosehoffer.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

The joy when my undergrads turn in good poems. The absolute joy.

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Kelly Hoffer @kellyrosehoffer.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Eating popcorn from a bowl with a spoon like it’s cereal

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Kelly Hoffer @kellyrosehoffer.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Not my employer institution refusing to divest from genocide and THEN sending me a Giving Tuesday email. Thank you for the opportunity to refuse.

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