Kelly Hoffer
banner
kellyrosehoffer.bsky.social
Kelly Hoffer
@kellyrosehoffer.bsky.social
poemsss

UNDERSHORE (Lightscatter Press 2023)

https://bio.site/kellyrosehoffer

Few things more joyous than seeing adults on my bus commute in full costume today
October 31, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Have just learned the term “slut’s wool” for dust bunnies
October 11, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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
Woman putting on deodorant on her bus commute…my queen
September 9, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Reposted by Kelly Hoffer
“Just because this poem uses the ‘I’ doesn’t mean it’s confessional”

the poem:
June 17, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Reposted by Kelly Hoffer
Today’s Featured Poem:

“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
Guy working at my local deli has a hat that just says “sandwiches”
June 4, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Reposted by Kelly Hoffer
Ahshinayo
The song was so popular that even I could sing it with my eyes closed.
poems.com
May 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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
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
Embarrassed that I still need to use pomodoros to do any sort of critical writing
April 21, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Reposted by Kelly Hoffer
"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...
April 1, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Past Kelly cleaned the kitchen before she left for the weekend and boy do I love her
March 31, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Reposted by Kelly Hoffer
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
Robin Blaser has a book called Pell Mell and I think that’s a great title
March 10, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Drinking three beverages of various temperatures to achieve homeostasis, or how I became Goldilocks in my office
February 25, 2025 at 8:41 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
February 25, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Reposted by Kelly Hoffer
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
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
Adding jalapeño flavored potato chips to my egg sandwich—get on my level
February 17, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Reposted by Kelly Hoffer
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
Reposted by Kelly Hoffer
I can feel my poems getting angrier
January 21, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Um lol

“We don’t just review Paris”

Did @tacobellquarterly.org write this?
January 27, 2025 at 9:17 AM
My microchap—the photo I don’t write about—is here! Available from Tilted House

www.tiltedhouse.org/shop/the-pho...
January 25, 2025 at 11:56 AM
A man just went “ah!” when encountering the cold as he was leaving my local market
January 24, 2025 at 10:47 PM