Kelly Hoffer
@kellyrosehoffer.bsky.social
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✒️ 📔 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
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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November 26, 2025 at 1:36 PM
✒️ 📔 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
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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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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November 26, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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-...
Few things more joyous than seeing adults on my bus commute in full costume today
October 31, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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
October 11, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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
September 22, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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
September 9, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Woman putting on deodorant on her bus commute…my queen
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“Just because this poem uses the ‘I’ doesn’t mean it’s confessional”
the poem:
the poem:
June 17, 2025 at 1:05 PM
“Just because this poem uses the ‘I’ doesn’t mean it’s confessional”
the poem:
the poem:
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Today’s Featured Poem:
“Hungry Poem” by Rennie Ament from @clereviewbooks.bsky.social
Read here:
poems.com/poem/hungry-...
“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.
poems.com
June 5, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Today’s Featured Poem:
“Hungry Poem” by Rennie Ament from @clereviewbooks.bsky.social
Read here:
poems.com/poem/hungry-...
“Hungry Poem” by Rennie Ament from @clereviewbooks.bsky.social
Read here:
poems.com/poem/hungry-...
Guy working at my local deli has a hat that just says “sandwiches”
June 4, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Guy working at my local deli has a hat that just says “sandwiches”
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Reposted by Kelly Hoffer
Today's Featured Poem:
"Visitation" by @kellyrosehoffer.bsky.social, from UNDERSHORE, published by @lightscatterpress.bsky.social.
Read here:
poems.com/poem/visitat...
"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
poems.com
May 23, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Today's Featured Poem:
"Visitation" by @kellyrosehoffer.bsky.social, from UNDERSHORE, published by @lightscatterpress.bsky.social.
Read here:
poems.com/poem/visitat...
"Visitation" by @kellyrosehoffer.bsky.social, from UNDERSHORE, published by @lightscatterpress.bsky.social.
Read here:
poems.com/poem/visitat...
Embarrassed that I still need to use pomodoros to do any sort of critical writing
April 21, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Embarrassed that I still need to use pomodoros to do any sort of critical writing
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"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...
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...
April 1, 2025 at 2:07 PM
"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...
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
March 31, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Past Kelly cleaned the kitchen before she left for the weekend and boy do I love her
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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.
March 15, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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
March 10, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Robin Blaser has a book called Pell Mell and I think that’s a great title
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I’m back baby, thanks again to @stuwatson.bsky.social & @kqandrews.bsky.social
www.thenation.com/article/cult...
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.
www.thenation.com
February 26, 2025 at 2:34 PM
I’m back baby, thanks again to @stuwatson.bsky.social & @kqandrews.bsky.social
www.thenation.com/article/cult...
www.thenation.com/article/cult...
Drinking three beverages of various temperatures to achieve homeostasis, or how I became Goldilocks in my office
February 25, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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
February 25, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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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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 ;)
February 18, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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
February 17, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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
February 17, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Adding jalapeño flavored potato chips to my egg sandwich—get on my level
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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
February 9, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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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I can feel my poems getting angrier
January 21, 2025 at 4:09 PM
I can feel my poems getting angrier
January 27, 2025 at 9:17 AM