For years, this Madison poet didn’t have the words for her Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. In her fourth collection, Exploding Head, she’s found exactly the right ones. Madison Magazine’s Maggie Ginsberg …
Cynthia talks to Wisconsin Public Radio’s The Morning Show host Kate Archer Kent about her newly published collection, “Exploding Head.” She explores how her experience with obsessive-compulsive disorder is made …
What can Rilke and Eminem teach us about OCD? Cynthia talks about Exploding Head, taming your beasts, writing prose poems, and letting your child save you for John Sibley Williams’ …
On the process of writing and revising Exploding Head as a memoir in prose poems, how looking for the arc in the collection revealed how Hoffman’s relationship to her OCD …
On writing Call Me When You Want to Talk about the Tombstones, project books, genealogy, mixed media, and, of course, tombstones. Hoffman did a deep dive into her family’s ancestry, …
On researching and writing Paper Doll Fetus, bad advice that’s actually good advice, and the problem with the “F” word (fetus!). Read the interview here.
“A fetus had something to say; I wrote it down.” Cynthia talks about writing Paper Doll Fetus, generating a series, and finding the voice for a persona poem for the …
Sarah Marcus interviews Cynthia Marie Hoffman and says her newest collection, Paper Doll Fetus, from Persea Books is “absolutely stunning, strange, and gorgeous in all of the right ways. You …
Our latest contributor interview focuses on obsessions, compulsions, and fabrications of the mind — not to mention deep secrets, hulking angels, and the small choices poetry is built upon. Who …
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Cynthia Marie Hoffman about her new book, Paper Doll Fetus, twilight sleep, and the importance of giving voice to the voiceless. Read the transcript …
On writing the chapbook Her Human Costume, why poetry doesn’t have to be such hard work, and a narrow escape from “project tunnel vision.” Cynthia talks about how the chapbook …
Cynthia Marie Hoffman (Sighteer) and Rachel Richardson (Copperhead) talk about writing their first books, and how there work is deeply grounded in place (Europe and Louisiana). Read it here.
“Writing is a partnership with the outside world, and even to write the most personal poems, we have to reach out to claim the things that populate them—light, trees, the …
Cynthia talks about the poem “Labor of Moles,” written “in the midst of a flurry of research and writing on the subject of birth and medicine which culminated in a …
