Poet Hoffman Continues SU Writers on the Shore Series April 20

SALISBURY, MD---Poet Cynthia Marie Hoffman reads from her works in honor of the publication of this year’s edition of Salisbury University’s literary magazine, Scarab, 8 p.m. Wednesday, April 20, in the Worcester Room of the Commons.

Her presentation concludes SU’s spring Writers on the Shore series.

Hoffman is the author of Paper Doll Fetus, the chapbook Her Human Costume and Sightseer, winner of the Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize in Poetry. She is a former Diane Middlebrook Poetry Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, director’s guest at the Civitella Ranieri Foundation and recipient of an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Wisconsin Arts Board.

Her poems have appeared in Pleiades, Fence, Blackbird, diode and Mid-American Review, among other journals. She also co-edits the online interview series The Cloudy House, on poetry project books.

Sponsored by the English Department and Writers on the Shore, admission is free and the public is invited. For more information call 410-543-6030 or visit the SU website at www.salisbury.edu.