Cynthia Marie Hoffman | Exploding Head | Reading, Q&A, and Signing

Name: Cynthia Marie Hoffman | Exploding Head | Reading, Q&A, and Signing
Start: 2025-09-22T19:00:00-05:00
Location: Pulpit Rock Brewing Company

Schedule

Mon, 22 Sep, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Pulpit Rock Brewing Company | Decorah, IA

Who: Cynthia Marie Hoffman
What: an evening celebrating her poetry book, Exploding Head
Where: Pulpit Rock Brewing
When: Monday, 09/22 at 7:00pm
Wisconsin poet Cynthia Marie Hoffman will give a reading and Q&A session followed by a book signing on Monday, September 22nd at 7:00pm at Pulpit Rock Brewing at 207 College Dr, Decorah. Everyone is invited to this free event sponsored by the Oneota Valley Literary Foundation, with support from Pulpit Rock Brewing and Dragonfly Books.
A vivid memoir-in-prose-poems about life with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) from Cynthia Marie Hoffman, author of Call Me When You Want to Talk about the Tombstones, Paper Doll Fetus, and Sightseer.
This collection of prose poems chronicles a woman’s childhood onset and adult journey through obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), which manifests in fearful obsessions and counting compulsions that impact her relationship to motherhood, religion, and the larger world. Cynthia Marie Hoffman's unsettling, image-rich poems chart the interior landscape of the obsessive mind. Along with an angel who haunts the poems' speaker throughout her life, she navigates her fear of guns and accidents, fears for the safety of her child, and reckons with her own mortality, ultimately finding a path toward peace.
Cynthia Marie Hoffman grew up in Springfield, Virginia, and received her BA and MFA from George Mason University. She lives in Madison, Wisconsin. She is the author of Paper Doll Fetus (2014), and Sightseer (2011), which won the Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize in Poetry.
This event is part of Dragonfly Books and the Oneota Valley Literary Foundation’s robust author event series, which brings top-notch writers of all genres to Northeast Iowa to lead in conversations about literature and writing. To learn more about this event and other events with Dragonfly Books, visit www.dragonflybooks.com.
If you find that you can't make it to the event but would still like to purchase any books from this author talk, give Dragonfly Books a call at 563-382-4275. Our staff will be glad to reserve a book, have it autographed for you, and shipped out as needed.