Join us to celebrate new books by Cynthia Marie Hoffman and Andrea Potos. Publisher's Weekly said about Hoffman's full-length poetry collection Call Me When You Want to Talk about the Tombstones, “These sprawling, collagic prose poems pull language from old letters, articles, and notes from both Hoffman and her mother. … An artful probing of memory.” About A Stone to Carry Home, Mom Egg Review had this to say: "In these poems, Potos prepares to watch her daughter leave home and then takes us with her and the daughter on her journey to Greece and into the mountains of her ancestors, where eventually they arrive to the ruin that was once the home of her beloved grandfather." The reading will be followed by a discussion about inspiration, craft, poetry, and home.
Writing Home
Cynthia Marie Hoffman is the author of four collections of poetry: Exploding Head, Call Me When You Want to Talk about the Tombstones, Paper Doll Fetus, and Sightseer, all from Persea Books. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, Civitella Ranieri Foundation, and the Wisconsin Arts Board. Poems have appeared in Electric Literature, The Believer, Image, Smartish Pace, The Los Angeles Review, and elsewhere. She lives in Madison, WI. Her website is www.cynthiamariehoffman.com.
Andrea Potos is the author of several poetry collections, including most recently Her Joy Becomes (Fernwood Press), Marrow of Summer and Mothershell (both from Kelsay Books), A Stone to Carry Home and An Ink Like Early Twilight (both from Salmon Poetry in Ireland). She has received several Outstanding Achievement Awards in Poetry from the Wisconsin Library Association, the James Hearst Poetry Prize from the North American Review, and the William Stafford Prize in Poetry from Rosebud Magazine. Her poems can be found widely in print and online, including The Sun, Poetry East, Potomac Review, Cave Wall, Lyric, Bearings Online, Braided Way, and How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope (Storey Publishing). Andrea was a longtime bookseller in independent bookstores in Madison.
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