poem / cold poem

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from Kelly Hoffer’s Christmas card—-riso printed by Kelly Clare!

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Kelly Hoffer is a poet and book artist. She is the author of two full-length collections of poetry, UNDERSHORE (Lightscatter Press, 2023) and Fire Series (U Pitt Press, forthcoming 2026), and the microchap the photo I don’t write about (Tilted House 2025). She currently teaches in the MFA program at the University of Michigan as the Helen Zell Visiting Professor in Poetry.