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Erin Hoover
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I'll be at #AWP26, with @jennymolberg.bsky.social, @michellementing.bsky.social, Iliana Rocha, and Lisa Fay Coutley
Description of accepted AWP panel, "Unsilenced: Poetic Testimonies of Domestic Violence"
August 21, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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I'm at the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference in Los Angeles. Reading last night, panel today. Signing books and giving out free stickers on Saturday. ✨

#AWP25 @blacklawrence.bsky.social
Female figure reflected in doorway glass Image of heart stickers fanned out with the text Erin Hoover AWP Book Signing, Black Lawrence Press Booths 817 & 819, Sat. 11:00-noon
March 28, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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No Spare People is six months old today! Thanks to everyone for carrying me and the book this far. ❤️

(Btw, the best way to purchase No Spare People, with SPD closing, is direct from the publisher, blacklawrencepress.com/books/no-spa... )
Tan "brick" background with book cover image on left, "No Spare People anniversary" text and a small notepad graphic reading "Six months old!"
April 20, 2024 at 2:12 PM
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One more day, one more (scheduled) event. Let's do it, #AWP24 😎
Clipping from AWP's site of the listing for "Opening the Book" on Publishing Pedagogy," Room 2215A, Feb. 10, 9:00 a.m. to 10:15 a.m.
February 10, 2024 at 12:49 PM
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Hey #AWP24, I've got two opportunities today! I'll be talking about Sawmill Poetry Series and reading from No Spare People at the Black Lawrence Press offsite. 📚🎉
February 9, 2024 at 1:20 PM
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Made these adorable ❤️ No Spare People stickers for #AWP24. FREE if you purchase a book today for me to sign. I'll be autographing 📚 at Black Lawrence Press Booth # 643 & 645 today (Thurs, Feb. 8th) from 2:00-3:00 p.m. Come by even if you don't need me to sign anything! #awpbookfair24
Image of a hand with a heart-shaped sticker held in the thumb and fingers. The heart says "No Spare People." The background is of a gold curtain. No Spare People book face up on a gray couch, surrounded by a scattering of heart-shaped stickers that say "No Spare People."
February 8, 2024 at 12:59 PM
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Keeping this astounding turnout at Poetry in the Boro's
Winter Solstice reading in my pocket for the next time someone tells me the holidays are too busy for poetry readings 🤷

Pics of the 🔥 open mic readers: instagram.com/poetryintheb...
Erin Hoover in background, standing, reading to the audience in the foreground Erin Hoover reading in the background; copies of No Spare People on a table in the foreground Erin Hoover reading from her book No Spare People, centered in the frame with Poetry in the Boro logo behind her
December 23, 2023 at 12:30 PM
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Hey, I'm visiting Birmingham & New Orleans this weekend. Also, making poetry-reading flyers is totally an art. Much appreciation for all the lit organizers and flyer-makers among us!
Color image of author Erin Hoover and book No Spare People; reads Meet the Poet, Erin Hoover, Dec 2, 5 pm, Thank You Books, B'Ham, AL. bit.ly/tybssb Gold and black background with circular images of Erin Hoover and Karisma Price. Text reads: NOLA Book Launch: Erin Hoover's No Spare People. Blue Cypress Books, Sunday, December 3rd, 4 pm. Hosted by Lmnl Arts.
December 2, 2023 at 2:08 PM
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What are you doing next week? On Tuesday evening? I'm reading along with a few fellow poets at my press who also have new books. 11/28, 8:00 p.m. EST. This is a VIRTUAL event! Please register to attend: bit.ly/hoovervirtual
Book cover images on pastel background. Text reads: The Black Lawrence Press Virtual Reading Series Presents Jessica Morey Collins, Rachelle Escamilla, & Erin Hoover, Tuesday, November 28 @ 8 PM ET. Register to attend on Zoom.
November 23, 2023 at 2:09 AM
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Today at Louisville Book Festival four authors discuss community building. All are welcome to share their experiences and insights. @thomaskneeland.bsky.social @jeffreydlofton.bsky.social Robert Gwaltney
November 11, 2023 at 12:25 PM
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I've hosted Sawmill Poetry Series in Cookeville, Tennessee, for 13 events, so a year. Last night featured me and my book, No Spare People. For the first time, an audience member fell asleep.
Erin Hoover (a woman, wearing a red sweater, black pants, and white shoes) holds her book, No Spare People, and reads from it while standing before a backdrop of shelves in a bookstore. Audience members in the foreground listening attentively, with a child in the background sleeping. The child is my daughter!
November 7, 2023 at 7:26 PM
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My essay on finding a community of support as the solo parent of a donor-conceived child was a top story on
@thedailybeast.bsky.social for a while thedailybeast.com/how-a-single...
Screenshot of The Daily Beast homepage with my story featured, circled in red.
November 4, 2023 at 3:40 PM
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You can also order No Spare People direct from Black Lawrence Press or via Small Press Distribution or your local bookstore.... or, if you must, that other site.
October 18, 2023 at 2:34 PM
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My book comes out in two days, and I haven't yet shouted out the generous poets who are supporting it with their kind words. Ty Cate Marvin, Jessica Jacobs, K. Iver, & Kaveh Akbar!

Did I mention No Spare People is nearly here? Purchase
at Bookshop & other places... bit.ly/nsp-bookshop
October 18, 2023 at 2:32 PM
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A review of No Spare People in Sundress Publications' Sundress Reads! Ty Jen Gayda Gupta & Livia Meneghin for thinking deeply about my book 💕

sundressblog.com/2023/09/28/s...
Review quotation: There is power in agency and in creating an authentic life, one that may be far from expectation. There is also so much pressure put on women to exist in a way that often includes a stereotypical family. As Hoover writes: “A perfect circle is hard to imagine / (except if you have imagination), / but it’s obvious: my daughter and I are / complete by ourselves.” (75). These poems seem to suggest that a sense of wholeness is possible once this societal pressure is shed.
September 29, 2023 at 2:22 PM
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For folks here.... Sawmill Poetry (still @sawmillpoetry over at the other place) w/ @annalaurareeve.bsky.social was lit this week. 🔥
Anna Laura Reeve in background, audience in foreground. Anna Laura Reeve reading her poems and rocking a Fancy Foot (TM).
September 15, 2023 at 4:56 PM