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LOCATION:Cactus Club\, 2496 S. Wentworth Avenue\, Milwaukee\, WI 53207\, United States
DESCRIPTION:<span style="color: #0000ff;">Join us online (<strong><a href="http://meet.google.com/fpn-bmpt-efm">LINK HERE</a></strong>) to hear from ITC 2026 virtual artist-in-residence Cynthia Marie Hoffman. </span> <div dir="ltr"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Poet and essayist Cynthia Marie Hoffman will talk about her memoir-in-progress; the challenges and charms of writing about OCD, metal music, and the Gen X mental health experience in the early 90s; and making the mid-career genre leap from poetry to prose. </span></div> <div dir="ltr"><span style="color: #0000ff;"> </span></div> <div dir="ltr"><span style="color: #0000ff;">She'll be interviewed by poet Angela Voras-Hills (UWM English Dept.), author of Louder Birds and host of the Milwaukee-based reading series The Book Drop. </span></div> <div dir="ltr"></div> <h6 dir="ltr"><strong>Cynthia Marie Hoffman</strong> is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently the OCD memoir in prose poems, <i>Exploding Head</i>. Poems in <i>Electric Literature</i> and <i>The Believer, </i>and essays in <i>TIME</i>, <i>The Sun</i>, and <i>Lit Hub</i>. She’s currently at work on a prose memoir in 10 songs (from Metallica to Tool to Adam Lambert) about coming of age in the early 90s as a guitar-toting metalhead with then-undiagnosed OCD. Cynthia lives in Madison, WI. <a href="http://www.cynthiamariehoffman.com/">www.cynthiamariehoffman.com</a></h6>
SUMMARY:ITC Artist Talk: Cynthia Marie Hoffman
ORGANIZER:Cactus Club
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