Poetry Reading featuring Lauren Russell, author of A Window That Can Neither Open nor Close (Milkweed Editions, 2024), and Cynthia Marie Hoffman, author of Exploding Head (Persea Books, 2024)

Lauren Russell is the author of three books, including A Window That Can Neither Open nor Close (Milkweed Editions, 2024) and Descent (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2020), winner of the Poetry Society of America’s 2021 Anna Rabinowitz Award. An NEA and Cave Canem fellow, she teaches in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University.

Cynthia Marie Hoffman is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently Exploding Head, an OCD memoir in prose poems. Her essays are in TIME, The Sun, Lit Hub, and elsewhere, and her poems have been published in Electric Literature, The Believer, the Indianapolis Review, and other venues. Cynthia lives in Madison, WI. www.cynthiamariehoffman.com.

Poetry Reading: Lauren Russell and Cynthia Marie Hoffman