It's here! The cover for EXPLODING HEAD, prose #poetry about my lifelong journey with #OCD. This raw, terrifying personal project is ten years in the making, out Feb 2024 with Persea Books. Grateful to Electric Lit for the cover reveal! electricliterature.com/exclusive-co...

Exclusive Cover Reveal of Cynthia Marie Hoffman’s “Exploding Head” - Electric Literature

The author and the designer discuss the process behind creating the book cover

I think I'm getting better at saying, "Nope, that idea is a completely separate essay!" 😅

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Bennington Review Issue 12 is here, and it's a literal explosion of poetry. The contributors list is 🤯. This is from my forthcoming collection of #OCD prose poems, EXPLODING HEAD (Feb 2024, Persea). With OCD, there's the real world, and there's the simultaneous obsessive world of disaster. #poetry

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The promise and possibility of a new notebook. My first with unlined pages (though I write non-linear and all over the page at different angles already, even when there are lines)! What will happen?

The @beavermag.bsky.social anthology is here! BODIES: PRESERVATION OF LAND & SELF includes my poem "Ecotherapy." Check out the contributors list! ✨ And the ultra sparkly sticker! ✨ This is such a cool project, and an important one.

How are audiobooks happening for poetry? Is the press leading this effort, the author, or...? It seems to be more common lately... any tips or inside info from someone who's done it?

Instead of hoping a new "project" will occur to me in a fit of inspiration, I decided to pull the poems I've written over the past 1.5 years into a ms to see what project is already there. Even cutting 15 poems, it's 48 pages. I must have been doing *something* all that time? Now to read & find out!