Join us for a conversation about the collaborative projects that make multimodal publishing possible. Fiber artist, Lauren Callis, and poet, Kelly Hoffer, will discuss the process that generated “a knot dense and beautiful”—the textile book that accompanies UNDERSHORE. The conversation will be moderated by Danielle Susi. Hosted by Lightscatter Press.

5pm PT/6pm MT/ 7pm CT / 8pm ET

This is a Zoom event. Register here.

Join us for the Ithaca launch of my debut collection of poems UNDERSHORE! I’ll be reading along with two other wonderful Ithaca poets, Winniebell Xinyu Zong and Elisávet Makridis!

Winniebell Xinyu Zong is a Chinese poet and chapbook editor at Newfound Press. She was the 2020 Frontier Poetry editorial fellow and a spring 2021 publishing intern at Copper Canyon Press. Her recent poems are forthcoming or have appeared in POETRY, crazyhorse (now swamp pink), The Southern Review, CHERRY MOON: Emerging Voices from the Asian Diaspora, and Meridian, among others. Nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best New Poets, Best of Net, and AWP’s Intro Journals Project, Zong holds an MA from Kansas State University and is an MFA poetry candidate at Cornell University. You can find her at winniebellxzong.com.

Elisávet Makridis (she/her) is a Pushcart Prize & Best New Poets nominated poet-educator raised between Astoria, New York & Greece. Winner of Ruminate Magazine's 2022 Poetry Prize judged by Rajiv Mohabir & Inverted Syntax's Sublingua Prize for Poetry, her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Hayden's Ferry Review, Canthius, Indiana Review, Reed Magazine, Grist, Frontier Poetry, among others. She holds an MFA in Poetry from Cornell University where she teaches as a lecturer in the Department of Literatures in English.

Please join us for a reading by visiting writers Shruti Swamy and Kelly Rose Hoffer on May 1 at 7:00 p.m. in Northen Auditorium. This free event is funded by the Glasgow Endowment for the Arts and open to the public.

Shruti Swamy is the author of the story collection A House Is a Body, which was a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize and the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, and was longlisted for the Story Prize. Her debut novel, The Archer, has been longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. Her work has been published by the Paris Review and McSweeney’s and anthologized in the O. Henry Prize Stories. She lives in San Francisco.

W&L Event description

A poetry reading with Mia You, Kelly Hoffer, Roberto Harrison, Whitney Devos and Zane Koss of NAFTA, in celebration with Chicago Review!

Doors @ 7, Reading @ 7:30!

Is There a Doctor in the Room: How to Apply, Survive, and Thrive in a PhD Program

Panel with Alicia Wright, Sebastián H. Páramo, Jay Gao, Kelly Rose Hoffer, Rita Mookerjee

In the competitive job market, should you apply for a PhD? Should you choose creative writing or literary studies? How do you navigate the admissions process? Our panellists will reflect on their diverse experiences of graduate education in order to demystify the PhD, especially for underrepresented and minority students. We will also discuss creative-critical practices, research skills, how to build an artistic community, and how to balance studies with other work like editing and publishing.

I’ll be signing copies of UNDERSHORE at AWP. Stop by Lightscatter Press’s booth T1219 at 2pm on Friday to get your copy!

Join us at Saké Nomi for a night of saké and poems! Featuring Anna Scotti, Natalie Young, Annelyse Gelman, Matt Broaddus, and me—Kelly Hoffer! Free and open to the public! Come and help us celebrate my book UNDERSHORE!

Doors at 6:30, Poems at 7!

Join us for the virtual launch of Ugly Duckling Presse’s new magazine Second Factory with contributors to the first issue: Tony Iantosca, Benjamin Krusling, Kelly Hoffer, Joel Dailey, S. L., Sevinç Çalhanoğlu, Parker Menzimer, Emma Wippermann, Genevieve Kaplan, and Wes Civilz.

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